Processing Information:

• Learns to calculate sentencing information to determine accuracy of an offender¿s sentence computation.
• Under close supervision, verifies that offender sentencing complies with judgment order.
• Learns to complete initial intake packages and/or risk-needs assessments for offenders.
• Learns to prepare reports on offender history, progress, adjustment, rule violations, visitation, recommendations for special visits, and other related statistics.

• Evaluates all offender records, case notes, and information to ensure compliance with all applicable standards, laws, policies, rules, and regulations while under the guidance of a higher ranking Correctional Counselor.

• In a training capacity, conducts Prison Rape Elimination Act screenings to determine potential victim or aggressor status.
• Learns to administer risk-needs assessments to offenders using motivational interviewing techniques.
• Learns to gather information relevant to offender history from appropriate agencies and personnel.
• Learns to interview offenders to evaluate progress in accomplishing recommendations and parole board mandates.

• Under supervision, facilitates workshops for offender reentry and career development.

• Learns to monitor environment to identify security related concerns in order to assure continued safety of facility.
• In a training capacity, participates in classification and reclassification hearings in order to review information relevant to offender behavior, program, participation, and other factors for the purpose of determining offender custody levels and programmatic needs and goals.
• In a training capacity, supervises a case load of up to 150 offenders in an institutional setting.
• Learns to monitor offenders to ensure compliance with recommendations and parole board mandates.
• Learns to review offender files for various institutional needs.

• Learns to provide appropriate interventions in interactions between staff and offenders to resolve issues of conflict.

• Under supervision, assists offenders with communicating with persons or agencies outside of the institution to expedite release plans or respond to emergencies.

• Learns to use motivational interactions with offenders to realign offender behaviors, thinking, and reactions to conform to facility rules and societal norms.

• In a training capacity, identifies appropriate intervention techniques to deal with offender behavioral issues.
• Under guidance, assists offenders in addressing their concerns regarding job pay, trust fund, sentence information, and educational needs and programs.

• Learns to schedule outside services to assist with offender transition from prison to the community.

• In a training capacity, develops reentry plans for offenders within established time frames and in accordance with departmental procedures.
• Under guidance, provides counseling and instruction specific to the needs of a reentry caseload.
• Learns to provide information to offenders with regards to community resources, methods of finding and keeping employment, and improving family relationships.
• Learns to counsel offenders concerning risk of reoffending.
• In a training capacity, observes appropriate counseling staff contacts with offender family members concerning release.

• Learns to enter or retrieve information concerning offenders using computerized databases on a daily basis.
• Uses web-based programs to communicate with persons inside and outside of the agency concerning offender needs.

• Learns to address offender mental health and medical needs with appropriate staff.
• Under supervision, assists assigned offenders in adjusting to incarceration by conducting individualized or group sessions to discuss facility and program rules and regulations.
• Under supervision, counsels offenders regarding personal and family issues.
• In a training capacity, collaborates with medical professionals to provide information to offenders regarding advanced directives.

• Attends various mandated training to enhance job skills and performance.

• Learns to analyze disciplinary reports to determine offender behavior trends.

• Learns to maintain reports on offender history, progress, adjustment, rule violations, visitations, recommendations for special visits, and other related statistics.
• Learns to record risk-needs assessments for quality assurance.
• Learns to document referrals made to offenders regarding outside services.

• Learns to identify offender movement to ensure caseload accuracy.

• Communicates with other counseling personnel to gain knowledge or understanding of counseling responsibilities.
• Communicates with various institutional personnel to meet offender needs.
• Under supervision, provides information in treatment team/staff meetings to other team members regarding offender progress in programming.