Case Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Knowledge of vocational guidance and social adjustment principles.
• Knowledge of available institutional industrial positions and the future market for those skills.
• Knowledge of interviewing and counseling techniques.
• Knowledge of the social and psychological problems facing offenders.
• Knowledge of the principles of personality development and adjustments.
• Knowledge of the social structure of an offender population and individual assimilation into it.
• Knowledge of related government laws and practices.
• Knowledge of community resources.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of effective supervision.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to determine which segment of the facility will be best suited to an offender’s social and correctional needs.
• Ability to motivate offenders in a positive, constructive manner.
• Ability to supervise and direct the work of others.
• A bachelor’s degree and four years of correctional records management or social casework which involved the classification and assignment, field supervision, apprehension or investigation of offenders, or as a chief of security in a community corrections center, or in a professional administrative position with responsibilities for maintaining inmate records, establishing procedures or serving as an assistant to a warden.
• Substitution of a master’s degree for one year only of the required specialized experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience substituting one year of the experience in a correctional facility in a position which requires direct contact with inmates for each thirty semester hours of the required education.

Responsibilities

• Uses interview techniques and assessment instruments to determine the offender’s security risks and programmatic needs; prepares case history reports and recommends program assignments.
• Reviews work and conduct records of all assigned offenders to determine progress or necessity of changing assignments or security classification; serves as a member of the classification unit for an assigned caseload.
• Advises offenders on personal problems, employment resources, vocational skills, educational and training needs, family problems and institutional adjustment.
• Delivers programs to offenders which are designed to assist in a successful re-entry into the community following release from incarceration.
• Assists with or prepares reports such as parole summaries or court ordered presentence investigations.
• Receives and takes necessary action on incoming and outgoing mail to or from assigned offenders.
• Develops, monitors, and amends offender transition plans in line with re-entry programs and services.
• Establishes collaborative network with relevant partners to provide support, pre and post release services for offenders which involve family members and community resources and social service agencies.