Behavioral Healthcare Provider 1 (LSW/LPC/MFT) - 20020338

State of Ohio • Marysville, OH

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Behavioral Healthcare Provider 1 works under clinical supervision and requires considerable knowledge of behavioral healthcare programs and program techniques. As a member of an interdisciplinary mental health treatment team at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, the provider delivers assigned mental health interventions to a caseload of mentally ill criminal offenders. The position conducts screenings and risk assessments, provides clinical and psychosocial interventions under treatment plans, coordinates care, maintains documentation, and consults with institutional staff, families, and community agencies. The position is permanent and full-time.

Requirements

• Hold an Ohio Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Social Worker (LSW), or Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT) license.
• Have considerable knowledge of behavioral healthcare programs and program techniques.

Responsibilities

• Complete detailed mental health screenings and risk assessments, including suicide watch assessments when within the employee’s scope of practice and credentialing-board and ODRC policy requirements.
• Conduct individual and group clinical interventions prescribed by individual mental health treatment plans, using strategies within the employee’s scope of practice and as directed by supervision.
• Provide psychosocial group interventions prescribed on mental health treatment plans.
• Provide mental health liaison services to an assigned caseload and monitor offenders’ progress toward treatment plan goals.
• Complete psychosocial needs and treatment assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning.
• Complete transfer and discharge summaries.
• Consult with institution staff regarding caseload inmates’ institutional adjustment and service needs.
• Initiate and maintain contact with families and community agencies.
• Provide and seek information related to patient care and treatment.
• Make appropriate community referrals as directed by the mental health treatment team.
• Write reports and document inmate contacts, mental health liaison progress notes, discharge plans, forms, and reports in accordance with policy and protocol.
• Attend social work or counselor supervision meetings.
• Attend in-service training sessions and workshops for professional development.
• May be assigned to teach in-service.

Benefits

• Medical coverage.
• Free dental, vision, and basic life insurance premiums after completion of the eligibility period.
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal leave, sick leave, and 11 paid holidays per year.
• Childbirth, adoption, and foster care leave.
• Education and development opportunities, including employee development funds and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
• Public retirement systems, including OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS, and optional deferred compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed