Behavioral Healthcare Provider 1 (LSW/LPC/MFT) - 20020244

State of Ohio • Mansfield, OH

1d • 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 part of an interdisciplinary mental health treatment team, the provider delivers assigned mental health interventions to a caseload of mentally ill criminal offenders. The role includes conducting mental health screenings and risk assessments, including suicide watch assessments when within the provider’s scope of practice and permitted by credentialing requirements and ODRC policy. Providers who are not independently licensed conduct such assessments in direct consultation with an independently licensed mental health professional.

The provider carries out individual and group clinical and psychosocial interventions as prescribed by treatment plans, monitors clients’ progress, contributes to interdisciplinary treatment planning, and coordinates care with institution staff, families, and community agencies. The position also requires documentation, referrals, professional supervision, and participation in training. The position is permanent, full-time, and based at the Mansfield Correctional Agency in Mansfield, Ohio. Starting pay is approximately $70,000 based on location.

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.
• Conduct work within the scope of practice and applicable credentialing-board and ODRC policy requirements.
• Use behavioral healthcare programs and techniques; the position requires considerable knowledge of them.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary mental health treatment team and provide assigned 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 credentialing-board and ODRC policy requirements; consult an independently licensed mental health professional when required.
• Conduct individual and group clinical interventions prescribed in individual mental health treatment plans, within scope of practice and under supervision.
• Provide psychosocial group interventions as prescribed in mental health treatment plans.
• Provide mental health liaison services to an assigned caseload and monitor 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 clients’ institutional adjustment and service needs.
• Initiate and maintain contact with families and community agencies.
• Provide and seek information relevant to patient care and treatment.
• Make community referrals as directed by the mental health treatment team.
• Document inmate contacts, liaison progress notes, discharge plans, forms, and reports electronically, in accordance with policy and protocol.
• Attend social work or counselor supervision meetings.
• Attend in-service training sessions and professional development workshops.
• May teach in-service sessions.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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