Sex Offender Treatment Specialist- Part time

This is a Part-Time direct service position with ATTIC Correctional Services, Inc. as a Treatment Specialist. This position would pay $250 per group session with a total of two to three sessions per week. The person in this position is responsible for a caseload of adult correctional clients who participate in the Sex Offender Treatment program at Foster Community Corrections Center (FCCC).

Involvement with clients is in group settings, serving as facilitator for the program. Responsibilities include screening/assessments, preparing detailed treatment plans and relapse prevention plans, interfacing with other criminal justice and community agencies, preparing discharge summaries, and other collateral reports as needed. Weekly progress notes, SOT discharge summaries, and staffing notes are required, as are phone calls with agents as needed.

DUTIES:

• Facilitate groups in the areas of sex offender education/treatment.

• Review referrals, conduct assessments (if none have been provided in the referral documentation), complete the counselor's portion of intakes, monitor and evaluate client participation.

• Maintain appropriate documentation required in relation to group and individual client services in the facility's electronic records system.

• Maintain and update client files, write weekly progress notes and discharge summaries.

• Maintain regular communication with agents and co-workers.

• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor(s).

• Perform brief individual counseling sessions outside of group focused on helping clients assimilate group skills and concepts.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Licensure as a Social Worker, Professional Counselor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, or Psychiatric Nurse with at least two years of experience in the field of sex offender treatment.

• Prior work with clients involved in the criminal-legal system required.

• Residential or treatment center experience preferred.

• Ability to work with clients of diverse backgrounds.

• Excellent verbal, oral, and written communication skills.

• Experience working within a trauma-informed environment preferred.

• Groups facilitation skills, with experience in cognitive-behavioral programming.

Experience must include at least one (1) year - in internship or licensed capacity - of:

1. Conducting sex offender assessments/evaluations including risk assessments using current instruments and methodologies.

2. Providing individual and group sex offender treatment.

3. Working with involuntary clients.

4. Working with offender populations.

5. Working with culturally diverse client populations.

6. Providing cognitive/behavioral-based programming.

7. Providing relapse prevention programming.

Case management, including treatment planning, general knowledge of social services and appropriate referrals, record keeping, mandatory reporting requirements, confidentiality rules and regulations as they apply to the specific population, and knowledge of professional ethical standards.

Staff providing direct program services must have a minimum of sixty (60) hours of training that includes a minimum of four (4) hours in each of the following areas:

1. Treatment of cognitive distortions, thinking errors, and criminal thinking

2. Risk assessment of sex offenders

3. Relapse prevention

4. Group facilitation

5. Sex offender treatment including group, individual, and behavioral therapy

6. Human sexuality including etiology of sexual deviancy

7. Treatment issues specific to target population(s) to be served by the program

8. Family systems

9. Specialized monitoring/assessment tools such as polygraph, PCL-R, penile plethysmograph, ABEL, pharmacological treatment, etc.

Staff shall have one (1) year from the date of hire to complete the required training. Staff are also required to complete twelve (12) hours of related update training every two (2) years.

Wage per hour: $50 per hour for Treatment Specialist duties performed (following the guidelines outlined on the SOT services menu). There is also a $25 per hour training rate assigned to this position for orientation and training.

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