Mental Health Specialist (NRC)
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About The Position
As a Mental Health Specialist working at Norfolk Regional Center, your role will be centered on fostering rehabilitation through clinically informed, ethically grounded, and trauma-aware care. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to assess, treat, and support individuals with complex behavioral health needs, while also upholding community safety as a core priority. Your focus is on facilitating meaningful behavioral change, improving psychological insight, and promoting personal accountability in a structured therapeutic environment. You will also be committed to evidence-based practices, professional integrity, and the belief that with the right interventions, individuals can work toward positive change. The Norfolk Regional Center is Phase I of the Nebraska Sex Offender Treatment Program. The Sex Offender Treatment Program is for patients who have completed their criminal sentence but have been deemed at high risk to sexually re-offend if outside an inpatient treatment facility. As a Mental Health Specialist, you will assist our multi-disciplinary teams in treatment plans and perform a range of functions to create a therapeutic environment for the care and treatment of sex offenders with mental illnesses and personality disorders committed directly from the prison to the Nebraska Sex Offender program. The Mental Health Specialist will provide direct care services of both a safety and treatment nature, including but not limited to the day-to-day supervision of patient activities, therapeutic interactions with the patients, facilitation of psycho-educational group activities, documentation of patient behaviors and the escort and supervision of patients throughout the facility for patient personal development.
