Behavioral Healthcare Provider 2 (LISW/LPCC/IMFT) 20031274

State of Ohio • Mansfield, OH

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Behavioral Healthcare Provider 2 delivers behavioral health services at Richland Correctional, including detailed mental health screens and evaluations, crisis services, and suicide watch assessments within the provider’s scope of practice. The role provides clinical direction to lower-level workers and may coordinate treatment teams. It also delivers individual and group clinical interventions, case management, and psychosocial assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning.

The provider monitors assigned patients’ compliance with mental health treatment plans, prepares transfer and discharge summaries, consults with institution staff, and maintains contact with families and community agencies. The position makes appropriate community and re-entry referrals, documents patient contacts and clinical progress, attends supervisory meetings and professional development activities, and participates in peer review as assigned. This is a permanent, full-time classified position.

Requirements

• Hold an Ohio license as a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), or Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist (IMFT).

Responsibilities

• Complete detailed screens, mental health evaluations, and crisis services, including suicide watch assessments, within the scope of practice.
• Provide clinical direction to lower-level workers.
• May serve as treatment team coordinator.
• Conduct advanced-practice individual and group clinical interventions prescribed in individual mental health treatment plans, using strategies within the scope of practice and as directed by a supervisor.
• Provide clinical case management to an assigned caseload, including monitoring inmate compliance with mental health treatment plans.
• Complete psychosocial needs and treatment assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning.
• Complete transfer and discharge summaries.
• Consult with institution staff about inmates’ institutional adjustment and service needs related to 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 and re-entry referrals as directed by the mental health treatment team.
• Document inmate contacts, clinical case management progress notes, discharge plans, and other forms and reports required by policy and protocol.
• Attend meetings with supervision.
• Attend in-service training sessions and workshops for professional development.
• Participate in peer review as assigned.

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, 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 through Ohio Deferred Compensation.

What This Job Offers

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