Behavioral Healthcare Provider 1 (LSW/LPC/MFT) - 20027271
About The Position
The Behavioral Healthcare Provider 1 works under clinical supervision and applies knowledge of behavioral healthcare programs and techniques. As a member of an interdisciplinary mental health treatment team, the provider delivers assigned interventions to a caseload of mentally ill criminal offenders at Trumbull Correctional. Responsibilities include screening, assessment, treatment-plan interventions, mental health liaison services, care coordination, documentation, and participation in supervision and professional development activities. Screenings and assessments are performed within the employee’s scope of practice and credentialing requirements; when the employee is not independently licensed, specified assessments require direct consultation with an independently licensed mental health professional. The role is a permanent, full-time classified position with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The work location is Trumbull Correctional, 5701 Burnett Road, Leavittsburg, Ohio. Compensation is listed as $27.48; the posting does not specify a pay period. Work hours are not specified. The State of Ohio describes benefits available to eligible full-time and part-time employees. The listed benefits include medical coverage; dental, vision, and basic life insurance premiums at no cost after the eligibility period; paid leave and 11 holidays; childbirth, adoption, and foster care leave; education and development opportunities; public retirement systems; and optional deferred compensation. Eligibility depends on several factors, and the agency contact can provide position-specific information.
Requirements
- Hold an Ohio Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Social Worker (LSW), or Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT) credential issued by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board.
- Perform clinical activities within the scope of practice and credentialing requirements; consult directly with an independently licensed mental health professional when required.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary mental health treatment team and provide assigned mental health interventions to a caseload of mentally ill criminal offenders.
- Complete detailed mental health screenings and risk assessments, including suicide watch assessments when within scope of practice and permitted by credentialing requirements and ODRC policy; consult directly with an independently licensed mental health professional when required.
- Conduct individual and group clinical interventions prescribed by individual mental health treatment plans, using supervised strategies within scope of practice.
- Provide psychosocial group interventions prescribed by 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 about the institutional adjustment and service needs of inmates on the mental health caseload.
- 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.
- Prepare reports and documentation, including electronic records of inmate contacts, mental health liaison progress notes, discharge plans, forms, and reports as required by policy and protocol.
- Attend social work or counselor supervision meetings.
- Attend in-service training sessions and professional development workshops.
- May teach in-service training.
Benefits
- Medical coverage.
- Dental, vision, and basic life insurance premiums at no cost after completion of the eligibility period.
- Paid 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.
- Optional deferred compensation through Ohio Deferred Compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
