Intervention Specialist-AIC

Wheeler•Meriden, CT

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Intervention Specialist facilitates evidence-based and research-informed curriculum-based group and individual services for adults involved in the criminal justice system. The role uses motivational interviewing and other strengths-based techniques to support program completion, increase client success, and reduce recidivism. The specialist reports client outcomes to court, probation, and parole and participates in significant training and quality assurance activities. The position is based in Meriden, Connecticut, is full time, and requires two evening shifts until 8 p.m. Additional evening shifts or work outside the normal schedule, job function, or primary work site may be required to provide program coverage.

Requirements

A BA/BS degree is required. Approved exceptions may be made for demonstrated ability and/or exceptional performance within a CSSD-funded or Wheeler Clinic program; experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.
Excellent work habits, including attendance, promptness, timeliness, and professionalism.
Openness to feedback and effective use of time.
Proven ability to work on a team to ensure program goals are met.
Effective verbal and written communication skills.
Commitment to personal and program growth.

Responsibilities

Prepare, plan, and facilitate individual and group sessions, including booster sessions, with integrity and fidelity to the curriculum.
Engage clients and address anti-social thinking, feeling, and acting; demonstrate and reinforce concrete alternatives and problem-solving skills.
Use motivational interviewing techniques to engage clients and their natural supports in AIC programming.
Use cognitive-behavioral approaches to support behavior change.
Conduct client intakes and assessments and prepare Individualized Service Plans (ISPs) within established timeframes.
Provide individual case management sessions and community linkages, and develop Transition Plans.
Monitor client behavior and use behavior management systems.
Hold clients accountable, address ambivalence and resistance, and help clients maintain motivation to change.
Address basic needs to support recovery and pro-social behavior change.
Participate in quality assurance activities, including videotaping sessions, meeting with a quality assurance coach, attending trainings, and analyzing and reviewing data reports.
Maintain accurate and timely documentation of group and collateral activities in agency and funder data systems.
Participate in efforts to meet and maintain performance-based measures set by the agency and CSSD.
Participate in client-centered, strengths-based presentations and discussions in staff meetings.
Prepare accurate and timely reports and regularly update referral sources on client activities.
Model pro-social behaviors and serve as a role model to clients and staff.
Provide program coverage for client services, including urinalysis, outside the normal work schedule, typical job function, or primary work site, as requested.
Supervise toxicology testing; collect supervised urine specimens only from clients of the same gender as the staff member collecting them.
Continue developing knowledge and understanding of the history, traditions, values, family systems, and artistic expression of groups served, and use appropriate methodological approaches, skills, and techniques reflecting cultural understanding.