SOCIAL REINTEGRATION SPECIALIST

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Are you looking for a career you can feel good about? We hire only those that strive to do their best. By joining our family, you'll receive the honor and recognition that comes with working for the industry's global leader in evidenced based rehabilitation.

Who We Are:

GEO provides complementary, turnkey solutions for numerous government partners worldwide across a spectrum of diversified correctional and community reentry services. From the development of state-of-the-art facilities and the provision of management services and evidence-based rehabilitation to the post-release reintegration and supervision of individuals in the community, GEO offers fully diversified, cost-effective services that deliver enhanced quality and improved outcomes.

Why Work for GEO:

• We believe that work is more than a place you go to every day. It is about being inspired and motivated to achieve extraordinary things.
• Employee benefits play an important role in making The GEO Group a great place to work. At GEO, we believe in the three pillars of employee wellbeing: physical, emotional, and financial. With comprehensive benefits and competitive wages, we trust that you will find all the resources you need here to be successful.

Responsibilities

Summary

This position serves as liaison between the facility, inmates, their families and the community. The purpose is to assists inmates with reintegration into the community and accessing available resources. It also facilitates educational groups for the facility’s sex offender population.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Serves as liaison with community mental health centers, half way houses, community corrections, state operated psychiatric hospitals, and private health care facilities to successfully assist in the proper discharge planning activates for sex offenders program participants.
• Responds to inmate requests regarding linkages to service providers in custody and in the community.
• Provides educational services to current inmates, both individually and in group meetings, regarding support services in the community.
• Complies and documents pertinent legal information on inmates housed on sex offender facility for utilization by members of the multi-disciplinary treatment team in case treatment and placement planning.
• Facilitates psycho-educational groups for sex offender program participants.
• Participates with other members of the treatment team in developing individualized treatment plans for inmates, providing feedback, consultation, and recommendations regarding an inmate’s progress and discharge plans.
• Complies with all personnel policies and administrative rules.
• Provides general operational support and administrative assistance in the absence of the Clinical Director.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Master’s degree in psychology, social work, criminal justice or a related field with two (2) years of practical experience.
• A high level of familiarity with the community resources at the local, state, and federal levels is desirable.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.

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