Addiction Counselor

Job

Agency:
Department of Corrections – Behavioral Health

Location:

Springfield , SD

Salary: $24.00 to $32.00 per hour, depending on experience

Pay Grade: H

Closing Date:
Open Until Filled

The South Dakota Department of Corrections is hiring! Join the DOC - view DOC Recruitment video here:  .

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 is eligible for a $5,000 hiring incentive ****

*** Current and Previous State Employees do NOT qualify for the Hiring Incentive ***

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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 standards of the program or work unit through compliance with all applicable professional, departmental, organizational and unit standards;
• promotes and is…