Sex Offender Treatment Specialist-Part time

Description

This is a part-time direct service position with ATTIC Correctional Services, Inc. as a Treatment Specialist. The person in this position is responsible for a caseload of adult correctional clients who participate in the Sex Offender Treatment program. Involvement with clients is on an individual basis and in group settings. Responsibilities include screening/assessments and writing weekly progress notes and monthly reports.

• Facilitate groups in the areas of sex offender education/treatment.
• Maintain appropriate documentation required in relation to group and individual client services.
• Maintain regular communication with agents and co-workers.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor(s).
• Perform individual counseling sessions focused on polygraph preparation, trauma issues, and other personal issues.

Qualifications

• Licensure as a Social Worker, Professional Counselor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, or Psychiatric Nurse with at least two years of experience in the field of sex offender treatment.
• Corrections experience required.
• Residential or treatment center experience preferred.
• Ability to work with clients of diverse backgrounds.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills needed.
• Effective oral and written communication.
• Experience working with victims as well as perpetrators of domestic violence.
• Groups facilitation skills, with experience in cognitive based programming.

Experience must include at least one (2) years of:

• 1. Conducting sex offender assessments/evaluations including risk assessments using current instruments and methodologies.
• 2. Providing individual and group sex offender treatment.
• 3. Working with involuntary clients.
• 4. Working with offender populations.
• 5. Working with culturally diverse client populations.
• 6. Providing cognitive/behavioral-based programming.
• 7. Providing relapse prevention programming

Staff providing direct program services must have a minimum of sixty (60) hours of training that includes a minimum of four (4) hours in each of the following areas:

• 1. Treatment of cognitive distortions, thinking errors, and criminal thinking
• 2. Risk assessment of sex offenders
• 3. Relapse prevention
• 4. Group facilitation
• 5. Sex offender treatment including group, individual, and behavioral therapy
• 6. Human sexuality including etiology of sexual deviancy
• 7. Treatment issues specific to target population(s) to be served by the program
• 8. Family systems
• 9. Specialized monitoring/assessment tools such as polygraph, PCL-R, penile plethysmograph, ABEL, pharmacological treatment, etc.

Staff shall have one (1) year from the date of hire to complete the required training. Staff is also required to complete twelve (12) hours of related update training every two (2) years.

Salary : $50