Title: RESTART Program Specialist/ Clinician, LMSW or LMHC
Salary: $34.00 per hour
Supervisor: RESTART Program Director
Status: Full-Time, Non-Exempt, 35 hours per week,
Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8am-4pm with a one hour lunch break
Function:
Provides group based and individual counseling and psychotherapy services to individuals who are incarcerated in at the Dutchess County Justice and Transition Center as part of a jail-based team working in the RESTART program.
Qualifications:
- A Master's degree in social work (MSW) or mental health counseling (MHC) from a rehabilitative counseling, education, from a school/program recognized and approved by the New York State Department of Education.
- The candidate must be licensed by the NYS Department of Education as a License Master Social Worker (LMSW) or a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). The license can be provisional/Limited Permit at the outset with the requirement that a permanent license is obtained prior to expiration of provisional license.
- Experience working in a jail or with a justice-involved population is preferred.
- Bilingual (Spanish/English) is a plus.
- Successful completion of all required background checks for Agency and Dutchess County Sherriff’s Office.
Position Responsibilities:
- Facilitate and co-facilitate groups for men and women including cognitive behavioral groups (minimum of 4 groups weekly).
- Provide individual therapy including diagnostic assessment and evaluation.
- Participate in the development of a transition plan from custodial setting to a community environment, inclusive of appropriate ongoing supports.
- Conduct psychosocial assessments.
- Work as members of an intensive jail-based team to identify potential participants, using and administering the COMPAS/COMPAS-R
- Participate in team meetings with providers, jail staff, other stakeholders as needed and collaborate with members of in-jail team to ensure that goals are met.
- Inform supervisor of relevant clinical issues and consult with team members appropriately
- Develop treatment plans for individual clients and modify treatment plans on an on-going basis to reflect clients’ behavior changes as a result of therapy.
- Maintain case records, documenting all client contacts and meeting deadlines for required paperwork in Northpointe.
- Attend weekly supervision and regular clinical supervision with supervisory level staff
- Actively keep Program Director informed of client progress and all developments.
- Work with community-based providers to ensure that transitional community services are coordinated.
- Provide community-based individual therapy sessions via virtual platform for RESTART participants.
- Provide referrals to community-based providers as needed and coordinate clients' treatment with other agencies.
- Advocate for clients, as appropriate
- May occasionally attend meetings/appointments outside of the jail.
- Act as a liaison to community individuals and organizations and represent the program and agency in a professional manner
- Other duties as assigned.
Skills & Abilities:
- Knowledge of criminogenic risk and needs that contribute to mental, emotional, and social maladjustment of justice involved individuals
- Knowledge of Cognitive Behavioral Interventions and other therapeutic techniques utilized in work with justice involved individuals
- Cultural competence and ability to relate to client population empathetically and with a trauma-informed lens
- Knowledge of Crisis management techniques
- Develop and maintain collaborative and supportive working relationships with all members of the clinical/case management, jail, and Agency staff
- Actively support program goals
- Identify system gaps and offer improvements/solutions
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
- Respect, initiative, resourcefulness, tact, and courtesy
- Maintain updated mental health/social work licensure
- Maintain competency and keep abreast of latest developments in the mental health field
- Organize work and complete appropriate documentation/records in a manner that aligns with accepted professional standards
- Obtain training required to administer evidence-based/evidence-informed and other approved curricula
- Ability to work evening hours as needed in order to provide programming for the general incarcerated population on a pre-planned basis.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match up to 5%.
- Generous paid vacation, holiday, sick and personal time package (2 weeks’ vacation in first year, 13 paid holidays per year, 12 sick days per year and 4 personal days per year).
- Access to Family Services’ Compassionate Leave Program where employees can donate/receive unused time off.
- Group term life and long-term disability insurance.
- Supplemental life insurance & accidental death and dismemberment coverage (AD&D).
- Supplemental insurance through Aflac.
- Employee assistance program (EAP).
- Pet insurance.
Our Mission:
Family Services brings people together to find the support they need, improving their lives and communities, and building a stronger safer Hudson Valley.
Our Values:
Compassion – Extending empathy and understanding to others.
Integrity – Being honest and dependable.
Hope – Believing in the strength of the human spirit and heart, to emerge and thrive when faced with a challenge.
Diversity – Promoting a vision of community comprised of wide-ranging assets.
Respect – Treating all individuals with dignity and without judgement.
Community – Recognizing and reinforcing the importance of our world as being comprised of people of differing strengths and perspectives.
Justice – Promoting social and economic equity and fairness.
Quality – Aspiring for excellence in every aspect of our work.
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