Cognitive Counselor: St. Brides Correctional Center #01120

DHRM • Chesapeake, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Cognitive Counselor plans, coordinates, implements, and evaluates the institution’s approach to inmate reentry and cognitive community using evidence-based practices. Operations, programs, and services are based on contemporary evidence-based approaches to inmate management that complement traditional security tools. These approaches include effective communication; identifying inmates’ criminal risks and treatment needs; motivating change through case plan agreements, incentives, and sanctions; and providing programs and services that address criminogenic needs.

The position also monitors, tracks, and manages housing and job assignments, progress, programmatic activities, and reviews for inmates participating in the Diversionary Treatment Program who are classified as seriously mentally ill, Shared Allied Management, and/or Restrictive Housing.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the principles and techniques of social work or rehabilitative counseling.
• Knowledge of casework and treatment methods, including motivational interviewing and various intervention techniques.
• Knowledge of inmate programs and supervision techniques.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to resolve conflict and role model pro-social values and responsible behavior.
• Ability to manage clinical and therapeutic boundaries.
• Ability to co-lead multidisciplinary teams while evaluating and documenting inmate treatment progress.

Nice To Haves

• Work experience with inmates in reentry, pre-release, and/or cognitive community settings.
• Professional certification in a relevant human services field or counseling discipline.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, implement, and evaluate the institution’s approach to inmate reentry and cognitive community based on evidence-based practices.
• Apply evidence-based inmate management practices that complement traditional security tools, including effective communication, identification of criminal risks and treatment needs, motivating inmate change through case plan agreements, incentives and sanctions, and provision of programs and services addressing criminogenic needs.
• Monitor, track, and manage housing assignments, job assignments, progress, programmatic activities, and reviews for inmates participating in the Diversionary Treatment Program who are classified as seriously mentally ill, Shared Allied Management, and/or Restrictive Housing.
• Co-lead multidisciplinary teams and evaluate and document inmate treatment progress.

What This Job Offers

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