Corrections Specialist 4 -CN93 - CCD Job Seattle area,Washington USA,Healthcare

Correction Specialist 4

Everett Field Office - 8625 Evergreen Way, Everett, WA

Full Time/Perm/WFSE

Salary Range: $7,066 - $9,506 Monthly

The mission of the Department of Corrections is to improve public safety by positively changing lives.

Join a dedicated team committed to reducing recidivism, promoting successful community reintegration, and enhancing public safety through evidence-based treatment and assessment.

This permanent position provides therapeutic services within the Sex Offense Treatment and Assessment Programs. As a Corrections Specialist 4, you will play a critical role in supporting individuals as they transition from incarceration back into the community. Through evidence-based assessment and the provision of sex offense specific treatment, you will help reduce the risk of reoffending while encouraging positive behavioral change and long-term success.

In

this role, you will:

Conduct sex offense-specific risk assessments and guide individualized treatment planning and treatment delivery.

Facilitate evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy in both individual and group settings.

Provide compassionate, professional clinical services to clients on your assigned caseload while promoting accountability and lasting behavioral change.

Prepare timely and accurate clinical documentation, reports, and other required program materials.

Collaborate with internal staff and criminal justice partners to coordinate services, monitor client progress, and support community safety.

As a Correction Specialist 4, some of your duties will include:

Assess client treatment needs and risk in order to provide evidence-based sex offense treatment to adult men and women in both group and individual settings. Facilitate behavioral change in clients, present client information to committees related to client planning, risk management issues and transition. Complete documentation to include agency approved risk assessment, initial treatment plans, group and individual progress notes and a comprehensive treatment summary for external distribution.

Additionally, some clients may require treatment summary addendums and/or additional documentation. Meet with client support persons and outside stakeholders to educate and answer questions.

Conduct group and individual therapy following the approved program guidelines.
Complete all required documentation in a timely and complete manner.
Complete all required risk assessments (currently Stable-2007 and Acute-2007).
Make contact with and response promptly in communications with client support persons and stakeholders.

Participate in required team meets, unit meetings, trainings, and clinical and administrative supervision. Collaborate with Community Corrections Officers and Supervisors to address risk and assist in developing protective factors for clients. Work with Mental Health providers, community members, and external stakeholders regarding sex offense specific risk and transition.

Attend and participate in meetings as required.
Coordinate and facilitate meetings with internal and external stakeholders as necessary.
Travel to Quarterly Community SOTAP team meetings.
Share and educate stakeholders regarding releasing clients and their specific criminogenic needs and dynamic risk obtaining appropriate Release of Information documentation as necessary.

Work directly with guardian and victim advocates concerning the management of those with sexually related offenses. Serve as an active member in the client transition process by identifying risk and developing supervision strategies. Provide deposition and testimony as legally required. Provide education, training, and workshops to the DOC and external agencies as necessary.

Meet and collaborate with prison clinical and custody staff and community supervising staff regarding client transition, management, and release.
Provide testimony when requested via subpoena.
Provide educational opportunities for the DOC and external sources regarding sex offense specific issues related to treatment, assessment, and transition.

Facilitate Community Transition groups.

Coordinate with prison staff for the delivery of Community Transition group for clients prior to discharge.
Coordinate with external stakeholders to schedule participation in CT group meetings as needed.
Complete appropriate documentation on client participation in CT group in preparation for release.

Perform other duties as assigned by the Community Program Clinical Manager.

As assigned.

Required Qualifications:

Two year of experience providing structured individual and/or group psychotherapy guided by a treatment plan to juvenile or adult populations which includes six (6) months of work experience providing structured therapy in a group setting.
OR
Three years of mental/behavioral health experience with a minimum of six months of providing psychotherapy in a group setting guided by a treatment plan.
OR
One (1) year of experience conducting structured group therapy in a sex offense specific program utilizing…