Behavioral Healthcare Provider ; LISW​/LPCC

Overview

Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) seeks a Mental Health Therapist (LSW, LPC, or higher) to work at the Dayton Correctional Institution.

• Completes detailed screens, mental health evaluations, crisis services and suicide watch assessments within scope of practice.
• Provides clinical direction to lower level workers and may serve as treatment team coordinator.
• Conducts advanced practice individual and group clinical interventions prescribed on the individual treatment plan, using strategies within scope and directed by supervisor.
• Provides clinical case management services to an assigned caseload, including monitoring offender compliance with the treatment plan.
• Completes psychosocial needs and treatment assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning.
• Consults with institution staff regarding inmate institutional adjustment and service needs.
• Initiates and maintains contact with families and community agencies.
• Provides and seeks information relative to patient care and treatment.
• Makes appropriate community and re‑reentry referrals, per mental health treatment team.
• Writes reports and documentation, including inmate contacts, progress notes, discharge plans, and other forms per policy and protocol.
• Attends supervision meetings, in‑service training sessions, workshops, and peer review as assigned.

• Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) or Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board.

• Behavioral Health
• Basic Documentation
• Programming
• Professional
• Confidentiality
• Teamwork
• Customer Focus Decision Making
• Emotional Intelligence

Starting pay approximately $77,000 based on location. DRC is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness program.

Full‑time, Classified position at Dayton Correctional Institute, Montgomery County, OH. Union: 1199.

or DRC.DCIRecruito.gov.