Summary Statement

A class incumbent is responsible for professional counseling work providing rehabilitation services to adult offenders incarcerated in correctional institutions or assigned to Community Corrections.

Nature and Scope

Essential Functions

Essential functions are fundamental, core functions common to all positions in the class series and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties for any one position in the class.

Since class specifications are descriptive and not restrictive, incumbents can complete job duties of similar kind not specifically listed here.

• Conducts individual counseling sessions with assigned inmates / clients.
• Develops treatment program based on counseling sessions, information obtained from inmate files, records, and reports as well as from family members, associates, former employers, and other counselors or rehabilitation team members.
• Assesses inmate progress efforts towards re-socialization and compliance with treatment program recommendations.
• Prepares a variety of records, reports and summary evaluations relative to inmate progress.
• Maintains files on clients / inmates which include supporting documentation, classification reports, social histories, progress notes and counseling records.
• Participates in case conferences regarding treatment alternatives of inmates / clients. Makes referrals to such resources as drug or alcohol treatment programs, educational programs etc.
• Makes recommendations relative to appropriate classification level of inmates / clients based on assessment of behavioral / attitudinal changes and positive effort made towards self improvement and compliance with program / institutional requirement.
• Serves on a variety of boards and committees, such as the Multi-Disciplinary Team's classification committee and inmate grievance committees.

Job Requirements

JOB REQUIREMENTS for Correctional Counselor

Applicants must have education, training and / or experience demonstrating competence in each of the following areas :

• Possession of a Bachelors degree or higher in Behavioral or Social Science or related field.
• Six months experience in behavior management such as understanding, explaining, describing and predicting behavior, studying the connection between behavior and its causes and identifying appropriate behavior modification strategies for individual situations.
• Six months experience in case management which includes assessing, planning, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating options and services to meet an individuals human service needs.
• Six months experience in interpreting laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures.
• Six months experience in using an automated information system to enter, update, modify, delete, retrieve / inquire and report on data.
• Six months experience in narrative report writing.

Additional Posting Information

Candidates must successfully complete all phases of the Non-Security Basic Training Course to receive Hazardous Duty A1.

This course is five-weeks in duration, and is administered by the Department of Correction Steven R. Floyd Sr. Training Academy.

Coursework includes physical, classroom and hands-on training.

Conditions of Hire

Pre-employment Drug Testing : Upon a conditional offer, you must undergo pre-employment drug testing as part of the hiring process.

Criminal background check : A satisfactory criminal background check is required as a condition of hire. The recruiting agency may require the applicant to pay for the criminal background check as part of the conditional offer of hire.

This position is a classification organized under an exclusive bargaining representative (labor organization) that has been elected by employees as their representative for collective bargaining and other applicable terms and conditions of employment, in accordance with Title 29, Chapter 59 and Title 19, Chapter 13 and 16.

This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement based on its individual terms.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The State of Delaware Executive Branch participates in the Federal E-Verify system where the State will provide the federal government with each new hires Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Upon a conditional offer, the applicant must undergo a pre-employment base line two step tuberculin skin test (TST) as part of the hiring process.

Benefits

Last updated : 2024-06-26