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Job
Agency:
Department of Corrections – Behavioral Health

Location:

Pierre, SD
Salary: $23.00 to $32.00 per hour, depending on experience
Pay Grade: H
Closing Date:
Open Until Filled

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This is a Full-Time position with the Department of Corrections Behavioral Health team. For more information on the DOC, please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

This position provides substance use disorder services to the offender population, to include formal and informal behavioral health evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and clinical interventions.

• This position is eligible for a $5,000 hiring incentive
• Full state benefits and SDRS retirement
• Current and Previous State Employees do NOT qualify for the Hiring Incentive

Why the Department of Corrections?

At The Department Of Corrections (DOC), We Have An Opportunity To Make a Difference. As a Department Of Corrections Employee, You Will Have a Chance To Experience

• Creativity – We are always looking for innovative ideas to help us achieve improved outcomes.
• Making a difference – You will have an opportunity to make a difference in the life of fellow South Dakotans.
• Professional development – We provide valuable trainings to ensure well-trained staff that are competent, accountable, and empowered and will assist you in reaching your career goals.
• Teamwork – In a team-oriented approach, you will have the ability to work cooperatively with others in a friendly work environment to achieve shared goals.

Who We Want

• a highly motivated and experienced person with a passion for serving the public and displays a high level of effort and commitment towards completing assignments and goals;
• a compassionate individual who listens attentively to others and clearly conveys information and ideas;
• a dependable and organized individual who effectively plans and organizes work activities;
• a person who is dedicated and who will represent the DOC with integrity and enthusiasm;
• an individual who works cooperatively with others and promotes a friendly work climate in order to achieve shared goals.

Knowledge Of

The Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• social, behavioral, psychological, and physical effects of substance use disorders;
• individual and group counseling techniques;
• community resources for the treatment and rehabilitation of client with substance use disorders;
• criminal thinking patterns and corrective thinking process;
• co-occurring disorders.

Skill To

• effectively communicate and motivate treatment-resistant clients;
• effective time management;
• be organized.

Ability To

• elicit and identify criteria required to diagnosis substance use disorders;
• gather, interpret, report, and use information concerning clients;
• establish and maintain effective interpersonal counseling relationships with clients;
• formulate treatment plans and make recommendations on client care;
• perform treatment needs assessments and treatment planning;
• facilitate groups and prepare discharge summaries;
• engage in consultation and make appropriate referrals when outside of scope of practice;
• work in a correctional facility;
• adhere to the security of such correctional facility.

What You Will Do

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• direct involvement in screening, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning;
• provide group and individual counseling and psycho educational services;
• monitors offender treatment and maintains documentation to assure compliance with standards and to assure continuity of care;
• provides clinical direction to non-clinical staff in behavioral health care and treatment of offenders;
• assures continuity of care for offenders by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation for receiving units, facilities, or agencies;
• documents electronically in an accurate and timely manner to provide comprehensive offender behavioral health records;
• communicates and responds to complaints, problems, transfers, classifications, and offender behavioral management issues;
• responsible for maintaining…