CDOC Corrections Case Manager I (Buena Vista)

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This position provides daily case management functions of the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC). Utilizing an advocacy-based team approach to case management, this position will focus on successful offender re-entry into society.

Primary job duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Meets with individual offenders to effectively guide them in accordance with CDOC needs and regulations, Federal Laws, State Statues and other case management goals and objectives ensuring continuity of care from intake to release;
• Deliver case management services utilizing motivational interviewing and cognitive based interventions in alignment with Colorado Transitional Accountability Plan (CTAP);
• Identify and collect meaningful information in relation to criminogenic needs;
• Determines an individual case plan, proper programmatic needs, and goals in collaboration with the offender;
• Coordinate offender access to work, education, treatment and recreational programs, determine earned time grants, develop initial parole board risk assessments and actions, and design parole plans;
• Monitor, evaluate, and record progress;
• Complete assessments and updates at regular intervals in accordance with CDOC policy and case management procedures;
• Maintain regular interaction with offenders coordinating medical and mental health and/or substance treatment, education, program referrals, work assignments and periodic CTAP re-assessment, as needed;
• Research case files and prepare plans for presentation to the community and parole boards;
• Assist offenders in preparing for transition;
• Maintain a multidisciplinary network of effective communication, providing opportunities for offenders to receive feedback, crisis intervention, and grievance resolution;
• Stresses results oriented direction in guiding offender behavior to conform to socially acceptable standards through role modeling pro-social behavior while monitoring physical, mental and emotional well-being of assigned offenders;
• Teaches pro-social classes to offenders;
• Other duties as assigned.

Three (3) years of experience working directly with a hard to serve high needs client population in a correctional or human services environment providing case management work to include case planning, assessment of risks and needs, coordination of community services and/or identifying needs and referring to appropriate resources, and monitoring compliance and overall case supervision as your primary assignment. Additional components may include multidisciplinary staffing/regular meetings, resolving client issues, and aiding offenders in locating housing and acquiring employment.

Hard to serve needs clients include individuals with multiple barriers to employment, lack of educational or occupational skills attainment, low-income workers earning wages below self-sufficiency, low levels of literacy or English proficiency, disability status, basic skills deficient, homelessness, ex-offenders and justice involved, and public assistance dependency.

OR

Three (3) years of corrections experience which must include one (1) year experience with a hard to serve needs client population providing components of offender management exhibited by involvement and familiarity with processes that directly affect offender classification, programming, or daily living which provide progressive opportunities for appropriate placement to include involvement in:
Internal Classification Committees (ICC), Classification Hearings, Job Placement and Supervision, Individualized Program Instruction/Tutoring, Multi-Disciplinary Staffing, Responding to Offender Grievances and Resolving Offender Issues, Offender Housing Placement and Movement, Intelligence Gathering and Processing, as well as Role Modeling Pro-Social Behaviors while maintaining Positive Professional Communications by providing the offender population with Crisis Intervention. Additional components may include components such as aiding offenders in locating housing, help with acquiring employment, and community resources/ support to include regular meetings with clients, coordination of services and/ or assessing client's needs and referring to appropriate program intervention.

Experience may also include aiding clients with overcoming barriers for stability in reaching re-entry goals.

OR

A combination of education (Criminal Justice, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology or similarly related field) and experience as defined above equal to three (3) years.

Experience must be clearly described, in your own words, within the work experience section of your application to meet this requirement. Positions held within corrections must be separated by classification, dates, and duties or the application may not be accepted. (Experience less than full time will be prorated).

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