Job Duties
* Works in an inpatient residential treatment unit
* Completes detailed screens, mental health evaluations and crisis services inclusive of suicide watch assessments within their scope of practice
* Provides clinical direction to lower level workers
* May serve as treatment team coordinator;
* Conducts advanced practice individual and group clinical interventions as prescribed on the individual mental health treatment plan, using clinical intervention strategies within their scope of practice and directed by supervisor
* Provides clinical case management services to an assigned caseload, including the monitoring of the offender compliance with the mental health treatment plan
* Completes psychosocial needs and treatment assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning
* Completes transfer and discharge summaries
* Consults with other institution staff regarding the mental health caseload inmate's institutional adjustment and service needs
* Initiates and maintains contact with families and community agencies
* Provides and seeks information relative to patient care and treatment
* Makes appropriate community and re-reentry referrals, per mental health treatment team
* Writes reports or documentation to include documentation of all inmate contacts, clinical case management progress note entries, discharge plans and miscellaneous forms and reports as needed per policy and protocol
* Attends meetings with supervision
* Attends in-service training sessions and workshops for professional development
* Participates in peer review as assigned
Qualifications
Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board.
-Or Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board.
Job Skills: Behavioral Health, Basic Documentation, Programming, Professional, Confidentiality, Teamwork, Customer Focus Decision Making, Emotional Intelligence
