Facility: GREAT PLAINS CORRECTONAL FACILITY
Compensation Base: $70,000 annually
Compensation Bonus (if applicable):
Equal Opportunity Employer.
Summary
- This position provides clinical social work for individuals with mental, physical or developmental disabilities and performs other related work. This position is responsible for maintaining safety by assisting staff in inspecting facilities, or observing behaviors, to identify or intervene in security breaches that could lead to injuries or escape.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Conducts assessments and summarizes case information for use in diagnosis, treatment (level of care), and dispositional release.
- Diagnose and collaborates in the formulation of a diagnosis of individuals.
- Develops, monitors, and modifies treatment plans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team
- Identifies and recommends appropriate services based on assessment and, where applicable, civil or penal code commitment.
- Provides individua1 and group therapy as delineated in the treatment plan.
- Provides suicide and crisis risk assessments and interventions.
- Participate in risk assessment, evaluation, and recommendation for alternate level of care placement, for release to the community, or other case disposition (with consideration for the risk the individual presents to the community).
- Coordinates discharge planning activities and acts as resource on accessing appropriate community support and services to be utilized upon release.
- Responds to requests from individuals, family members, courts, and community agencies.
- Provides social work services to family members.
- Consults with colleagues and other staff on behavior management treatment issues.
- Prepare verbal and written social work reports and provide court testimony, as required by law and policy, which can be used in all legal jurisdictions.
- Participates in professional meetings, committees, training, and conferences.
- Participate in research and Quality Assurance and Improvement (QA&I).
- Performs other duties as assigned.
