Correctional Case Manager

State of Oklahoma • Granite, OK

3d • $38,328 - $46,665 • Onsite

About The Position

The Correctional Case Manager provides routine social casework in the classification and assignment of offenders in a correctional institution, or advanced social casework supporting offenders’ re-entry into the community. The position is located at Oklahoma State Penitentiary and is onsite, with no remote-work eligibility. The role is offered at Levels I, II, and III, with non-negotiable salaries of $38,328.16, $42,445.52, and $46,664.80, respectively.

Level I performs entry-level routine case management under close supervision. Level II handles the full range of case-management tasks and oversees difficult advanced classification and counseling cases. Level III specializes in offender programs, including substance abuse, cognitive behavior, and sex offender treatment, and provides re-entry case management, assessment, transition planning, collaborative support development, referrals, and follow-up.

Requirements

• Level I: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Each year of experience in a correctional facility in a position requiring direct inmate contact may substitute for 30 semester hours of required education.
• Level II: Bachelor’s degree and two years of qualifying experience in correctional records management or social casework involving offender classification and assignment, field supervision, apprehension, or investigation; alternatively, qualifying experience as a chief of security in a community corrections center or in a professional administrative position maintaining inmate records, establishing procedures, or serving as an assistant to a warden.
• Level II: A master’s degree may substitute for one year only of required specialized experience; an equivalent combination may substitute correctional-facility experience involving direct inmate contact for education, at one year for each 30 hours of required education.
• Level III: Bachelor’s degree and three years of qualifying experience in correctional records management or social casework involving offender classification and assignment, field supervision, apprehension, or investigation; alternatively, qualifying experience as a chief of security in a community corrections center or in a professional administrative position maintaining inmate records, establishing procedures, or serving as an assistant to a warden.
• Level III: A master’s degree may substitute for one year only of required specialized experience; an equivalent combination may substitute correctional-facility experience involving direct inmate contact for education, at one year for each 30 semester hours of required education.
• Knowledge of vocational guidance and social adjustment principles, institutional industrial positions and future labor-market demand for related skills, interviewing and counseling techniques, and social and psychological problems facing offenders.
• Level II and III: Knowledge of personality development and adjustment principles and the social structure of offender populations and individual assimilation into them.
• Level III: Knowledge of related government laws and practices and community resources.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships, communicate effectively, and determine which facility segment best suits an offender’s social and correctional needs.
• Level III: Ability to motivate offenders in a positive, constructive manner.
• No substitution is allowed for the required qualifying specialized experience described for Levels II, III, and IV.

Responsibilities

• Interview offenders and use assessment instruments to determine security risks and programmatic needs; prepare case histories and recommend program assignments.
• Review assigned offenders’ work and conduct records to assess progress and determine whether assignments or security classifications should change; serve on the classification unit for an assigned caseload.
• Advise offenders on personal, employment, vocational, educational, training, family, and institutional-adjustment issues.
• Deliver programs designed to support offenders’ successful re-entry into the community after release.
• Assist with or prepare reports, including parole summaries and court-ordered presentence investigations.
• Receive and take necessary action on mail to and from assigned offenders.
• Develop, monitor, and amend offender transition plans in line with re-entry programs and services.
• Build collaborative networks with relevant partners to provide pre- and post-release support involving family members, community resources, and social service agencies.
• At Level III, provide specialized offender programs such as substance abuse, cognitive behavior, and sex offender treatment, and coordinate re-entry case management, assessments, transition or intervention plans, support teams, referrals, and follow-up.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level