Job Posting Title

Behavioral Health Clinician

Agency

131 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Supervisory Organization

DOC Ment Hlth/NOCC

Job Posting End Date (Continuous if Blank)

January 03, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)

Full/Part-Time

Full time

Job Type

Regular

Compensation

$66,155.40

Job Description

Basic Purpose 

Positions in this job family perform professional work in providing clinical services to inmates in a state correctional center.  

 

Typical Functions 

• Provides initial and ongoing mental health screenings and evaluations identifying at-risk and vulnerable inmates needing prevention, intervention, referral, and the immediate provision of mental health services according to policy and procedures. Assigns mental health diagnoses to inmates as appropriate.  

• Provides crisis, suicide and harm-reduction intervention/procedures to inmates identified as high-risk for self-harm, harm to others and/or have the potential for violence.  

• Identifies, monitors, and provides mental health services to inmates with diagnosable mental health, behavioral, or emotional disorder to facilitate and support their wellness and recovery.   

• Provides individual and/or group counseling or psychotherapy and evidence-based therapeutic services to inmates identified as needing mental health services to prevent decompensation and to promote personal growth, coping skills and support their recovery.   

• Coordinates with other medical and mental health professionals to ensure quality and continuity of care.   

• Schedules, monitors, and may participate in appointments with internal and external mental health professionals and providers to ensure medication compliance. Assists with providing medication education to and management reviews with inmates. 

• Develops and implements an individualized mental health continuity of care/aftercare plan to inmates discharging to prevent decompensation and provides referrals and linkage to community resources.   

• Assists in developing and carrying out comprehensive, culturally attuned training programs for the recognition and handling of behavioral and psychological problems most common in a correctional setting involving difficult-to-manage inmates and the seriously mentally ill.  

• Assists in conducting psychological, social, and personality adjustments and suicide prevention in-service training for the correctional and other professional staff members in the recognition, prevention, and handling of emergent crisis situations. 

• Attends professional conferences and keeps abreast of the most recent research, trends, and therapeutic modalities in the field of mental health including ethics training necessary for the improvement of quality of care and systems of service delivery. 

• Participates as a member of the assigned facility’s interdisciplinary team in meetings, correctional conferences, and other related facility and state-wide trainings. 

• Conducts assessments for inmates placed in restrictive housing according to policy and procedures. 

• May be required to respond on an on-call basis to crisis situations. 

 

Level Descriptor 

This is the basic level of this job family where incumbents are performing beginning level professional work in a training status and under close supervision. At this level incumbents will not be involved in the interpretation of tests, assigning diagnoses, or the supervision or training of others 

 

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