Residential Re-Entry Accountability Specialist

Volunteers of America Chesapeake and Carolinas

Residential Re-Entry Accountability Specialist (Administrative)

Reporting to the Assistant Director, Resident Services, the Accountability Specialist (ACS) primary responsibilities include coordinating resident approved movement schedule with case managers, monitor resident on GPS devices assigned to Home Confinement and job site. ACS will install GPS on resident, monitor resident movements while on home confinement, social pass, treatment, employment, or other authorized community activities to ensure compliance with the Bureau of Prisons Community Re-entry guidelines.

Monitoring shall include unannounced visits to residents homes, pass locations and places of employment; telephone verification of residents scheduled locations; and appropriate documentation of contacts in the resident file and other tracking records. The ACS provides guidance to the facility on resident whereabouts outside the facility. ACS coordinates monitoring activities, documents any violation, manages tamper alarm, and conducts investigation. The employee will report to the Assistant Director Resident Services.

• Install GPS devices on residents and monitor residents' movement, home confinement, job, treatment site, etc.
• Coordinate with case managers and develop implementation resident schedule to ensure compliance with Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and American Corrections Association (ACA) guidelines in home confinement, pass, employment, or other authorized community activities.
• Coordinate job-site visits with the Employment Placement Specialist, ensuring that the schedule of visits is appropriate and reasonable.
• Implement community-based monitoring based on the approved monitoring plan, and as mandated by ACA, VOACC and the funding source.
• Conduct home detention site visits according to a standard checklist, and coordinate with Control Center staff to verify each resident's authorized location and schedule.
• Maintain accurate monitoring inventory of GPS devices, records of site visits, home confinement, telephone contacts, GPS tracking alerts and incidents and monitoring documentation weekly and ensure they are properly filed in the Secure-Manage (SM) under each resident log.
• Report any deviation from residents authorized community activities to the Program Director/designee, and complete disciplinary incident reports accordingly.
• Coordinate and conduct initial meeting with the resident and their family members to complete orientations to home plans and visits to the resident's release address.
• Maintain and demonstrate working knowledge of ACA requirements, VOACC policies and procedures and operational procedures, as well as contractual obligations established by the funding source.
• Perform functions related to the Center Disciplinary Procedures as directed.
• Drive on company business to perform residential and employment site visits and transport clients as required.
• Participate in Program Review Team Meetings weekly and attend staff meetings and other VOACC work-related meetings and functions as directed.
• Participate in the provision of pre-service and in-service training for staff as directed.
• Prepare weekly, monthly or other periodic reports as required in the performance of position duties.
• Participate in 44 hours annual training as mandated by the ACA, VOACC, and funding source, and maintain certification in CPR/First Aid.
• Represent the program to the public, community agencies, and funding sources, professionally and appropriately.
• Assist in ensuring the facility's compliance with the American Correctional Association's standards for accreditation/Prison Rape Elimination Acts (PREA).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• To improve residents community-based programming, accountability, public safety
• To facilitate and monitor residents' participation and successful completion of the program.
• Reduce resident escape and master tampering alert.
• To enhance residents successful transitions to life in the community.

The physical requirements described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• The ability to safely operate a motor vehicle to transport oneself, consumers, and program supplies as necessary.
• The physical ability to travel to assigned locations, stand, stoop, bend, reach, pull, push, lift, grasp, climb, talk, see, hear and perform basic and light home maintenance activities, and operate office equipment.
• Operating office equipment requiring continuous or repetitive hand/arm movements.
• The ability to remain in a sitting position for extended periods of time.
• Occasionally, ability to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

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