Correctional Case Manager

** Job Posting Title
** Correctional Case Manager
** Agency
* * 131 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
** Supervisory Organization
** DOC JCCC
** Job Posting End Date
** Refer to the date listed at the top of this posting, if available. Continuous if date is blank.

Note:

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.
** Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)
**** Full/Part-Time
** Full time
** Job Type
** Regular
* * Compensation
* * Level I - $38,328.16  Level II - $42,445.52  Level III - $46,664.80
** Job Description
** Preference will be given to applicants with college degrees. #
** Basic Purpose
** Positions within this job family are assigned responsibilities involving providing routine social casework in the classification and assignment of offenders committed to a correctional institution or advanced social casework pertaining to the re-entry of offenders into the community. #
** Typical Functions*
* · Uses interview techniques and assessment instruments to determine the offender’s security risks and programmatic needs; prepares case history reports and recommends program assignments.
· Reviews work and conduct records of all assigned offenders to determine progress or necessity of changing assignments or security classification; serves as a member of the classification unit for an assigned caseload.
· Advises offenders on personal problems, employment resources, vocational skills, educational and training needs, family problems and institutional adjustment.
· Delivers programs to offenders which are designed to assist in a successful re-entry into the community following release from incarceration.
· Assists with, or prepares reports such as parole summaries or court ordered presentence investigations.
· Receives and takes necessary action on incoming and outgoing mail to or from assigned offenders.
· Develops, monitors, and amends offender transition plans in line with re-entry programs and services.
· Establishes collaborative network with relevant partners to provide support, pre and post release services for offenders which involve family members and community resources and social service agencies. #
** Level Descriptors
** Level I:

This is the basic level where incumbents perform entry-level routine case management work, under close supervision, involving classification and assignment of offenders committed to a correctional institution. Level II:

This is the career level where incumbents perform a full range of case management tasks involving the classification and assignment of offenders committed to a correctional institution. Incumbents at this level are responsible for overseeing difficult advanced classification and counseling cases. Level III:

This is the specialist level where incumbents are responsible for providing programs such as substance abuse treatment, cognitive behavior and sex offender treatment; and offender re-entry case management functions to include; coordination of strategic social casework; classification; development of transitional/intervention plans; conducting and analyzing offender assessments; developing family and community collaborative support teams, and providing service referrals and follow-up. #
** Education and Experience
** Level I:

Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting one year of experience in a correctional facility in a position which requires direct contact with inmates for each thirty semester hours of the required education. Level II:

Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor’s degree and two years of correctional records management or social casework which involved the classification and assignment, field supervision, apprehension or investigation of offenders, or as a chief of security in a community corrections center, or in a professional administrative position with responsibilities for maintaining inmate records, establishing procedures or serving as an assistant to a warden.

Substitution of a master’s degree for one…