Psychiatric Attendant; Mental Health

Overview

Psychiatric Attendant (Mental Health) -  ( 2600006R )

Rehabilitation & Correction - Allen/Oakwood Correctional Institution

Agency Contact Name and Information:
Personnel Director  / DRC.AOCIRecruito.gov

Unposting Date:
Jan 27, 2026, 10:59:00 PM

Allen Correctional Institute 2338 North West Street Lima 45801

United States of America-OHIO-Allen County-Lima

Compensation: $20.99

Full-time

Union: OCSEA

Primary Job Skill:
Mental Health

Technical

Skills:

Basic Documentation, Programming, Behavioral Health, Professional

What We Do… The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has been tasked with front line crime reduction through rehabilitative treatment and programming efforts provided in a safe, secure and humane correctional environment and effective community supervision. Our goal is to protect the public through helping individuals turn away from crime and become productive, contributing members of our communities, ensuring a safer Ohio for all Ohioans now and in the future.

To learn more about our agency, please visit our website .ohio.gov

Are You Ready? We are thrilled to see that you are interested in beginning your career with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction! Without a doubt, this will be the most rewarding and meaningful work you’ll ever find with a work family that is second to none!

What You ll do:

• Under the direction of the Psychiatric/MR nurses and/or behavioral health supervisors, participates directly or indirectly in the development of the Individual Treatment Plan (e.g., plans designed around habilitation and rehabilitation in cooperation with the multidisciplinary treatment team)
• Recommends to treatment team changes in offender treatment plans as behavior shows progress or regression and carries out offender or group treatment delineated by the multidisciplinary treatment team
• Directs and monitors all aspects of offender activities
• Trains offenders to function independently in self-help and/or daily living skills (e.g., personal hygiene, eating, grooming, toileting, etiquette, social skills, cooking, communications, writing and/or identifying name and address, identifying survival signs and words, and telling time) by using a variety of training techniques (e.g. behavior support programs, modeling, and over-hand instruction)
• Directs and monitors offenders vocational responsibilities
• Assists in escorting offenders during off-unit therapeutic activities and training programs
• Performs specific tasks with offenders as assigned by treatment team at program areas as described in offenders’ treatment plan (e.g., cooking, vocational tasks, fine/gross motor activities)
• Facilitates basic fundamental and psycho-educational groups to the SMI and IDD populations assigned to any MH unit or programmatic area
• Assists in the planning and participates in leisure/recreational activities with offenders (e.g., games, gardening, crafts, fine/gross motor skills, institutional services, to library, recreation yard, and commissary) and documents the activities and outcomes in electronic health record
• Institutes appropriate crisis intervention for unacceptable behavior as defined by treatment/behavior plan and prevent injury of the offender to self or to others
• Completes necessary documentation of incident reports as required
• Provides on-unit surveillance of offender behavior
• Investigates offender non-compliance with unit rules and recommends restrictions for violation to the treatment team and advises disciplinary process of offenders
• Responds to emergencies and recognizes unusual or threatening conditions and takes appropriate action per institution policies
• Reports and documents any problems and or unusual incidents directly to program and institutional staff
• Maintains control of own emotional response to repugnant offender behavior and restrains self from punitive or retaliatory activity to prevent escalating aggressive behavior
• Assists with institutional count and direct monitoring of offenders
• Assists with shakedowns of offender cells and unit area for contraband
• Provides orientation to newly transferred offenders
• Provides appropriate training, direction and/or feedback to offender regarding behavior observed
• Conducts offender interaction with client to clarify issues and resolve problems
• Completes charting and documentation, observation logs, reports and records offender response to programs, treatments, medications and activities
• Completes forms and reports that are related to shift attendant duties and unit operations
• Assists in escorting offenders to leisure/recreational activities, occupational activities and medical appointments
• Interacts appropriately with staff, offenders and visitors at all times
• Assists other staff and departments (e.g., security and behavioral health) in treatment and behavioral health plans, implementation, offender activities, off- unit programming and worksite area activities, maintaining…