Corrections ADA Coordinator

You must apply on our website: https://www.cuyahogacounty.gov/human-resources

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Summary: The position will work with disabled inmates to ensure County Jail programs, policies, and procedures are in compliance with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and to respond to complaints and grievances. This position will be responsible for ensuring compliance with various ADA and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules and regulations in the County jail. The incumbent exercises discretion in performing work according to governing policies and procedures and ensures that assigned activities are completed in a timely manner.

Essential Job Functions: This position requires considerable knowledge of County, state, and federal rules and regulations governing inmate rights. The following duties are normal for this classification. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Monitors disabled inmates to ensure compliance with various ADA and HIPAA rules and regulations
• Serve as a liaison between disabled inmates and jail security
• Ensures inmates with disabilities have appropriate support materials to engage in daily activities
• Ensures inmates with disabilities have appropriate communication options and services (e.g., devices, interpreters, visual supports)
• Works closely with the Classification Unit to assure there is no inappropriate security classification for disabled inmates
• Monitors appropriate staffing levels in the housing areas of disabled inmates
• Ensures materials, such as the Inmate Handbook, are in accessible formats and languages easily understood by inmates with disabilities
• Monitors disabled inmates’ compliance with prescribed medications
• Monitors dietary restrictions/requirements
• Works with Parole, Probation, and Community Corrections for a smooth transition of disabled inmates
• Develops and maintains a database of local vendors/agencies that provide post incarceration (Re-Entry) services and programs for disabled individuals for continuity of care
• Keeps current on information regarding Physical, intellectual or developmental, traumatic brain injury, substance use disorder and mental health disabilities
• Develops, interprets, and reviews various departmental programs, policies, and procedures
• Establishes policies/procedures to engage disabled inmates with various Jail programs including: Visitation, Chaplaincy, Mental Health, Medical, Programs, Behavioral Management, Recreation, Law Library, Commissary, Inmate Worker
• Designs programs and processes for handling applicable crisis interventions for substance related emergencies
• Develops performance measurements and quality assurance measures for assigned programs and policies
• Compiles, prepares, analyzes, and presents research findings and statistical reports
• Serves as a liaison with internal and external stakeholders in order to collect, share, and develop information related to services for disabled inmates
• Reviews and approves each Jail’s goals, objectives, and performance measures; assures applicable regulations, policies, procedures, and standards are met throughout the programs
• Oversees incarcerated individual’s correspondence regarding treatment issues and complaints in coordination with the ED of Behavioral Health
• Monitors services provided in addiction recovery units ensuring treatment provided with fidelity in a time efficient manner

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, social work, or related field with five (5) years of experience working with disabled inmates in a corrections facility, monitoring, evaluating, and investigating federal, state, county, and departmental rules and regulations governing ADA, or related experience that includes experience directly working in a prison/jail/correctional facility; or any equivalent combination of training and experience as defined below:

Highest Degree of Education Attained -------------------- Experience Required*

• High school diploma/GED ------------------------------- 15 years
• Unrelated Associates degree ---------------------------- 11 years
• Related Associates degree ------------------------------- 9 years
• Unrelated Bachelor’s degree ----------------------------- 7 years
• Related Bachelor’s degree -------------------------------- 5 years
• Unrelated Master’s/Doctoral degree ---------------------- 3 years
• Related Master’s/Doctoral degree ------------------------ 2 years

*Related degrees: Sociology, Psychology

Application Process

This is a competitive, classified position. The Personnel Review Commission (PRC) will check your application to make sure you meet the minimum qualifications. If you do, the PRC will invite you to take a civil service examination. The exam is specific to this position. Everyone who passes the exam goes on an eligibility list. To fill this opening, the PRC sends the hiring department and Human Resources (HR) a certified eligibility list with the top 25% candidates (or at least the ten highest scoring candidates, whichever is greater). HR helps the hiring department decide who from the certified list to follow up with for interviews and then a job offer.

Most of our communication with candidates is through email. Regularly check the email address you gave us in your job profile. Watch your Spam folder, just in case.

If we offer you a job, you must pass a drug screen and background check before the offer becomes final. Prior criminal convictions do not automatically disqualify you from employment; the County looks at criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis using the guidelines in Chapter 306 of the County Code.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $57,824.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift

Ability to Commute:

• Cleveland, OH 44113 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Cleveland, OH 44113: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $57,824 - $75,000