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Review Vacancy

Date Posted 09/23/15

Applications Due10/06/15

Vacancy ID23765

AgencyCorrections and Community Supervision, Department of

TitleOffender Rehabilitation Coordinator (Spanish Language)

Occupational CategoryOther Professional Careers

Salary Grade19

Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)

Salary RangeFrom $39713 to $70013 Annually

Employment Type Full-Time

Appointment Type Provisional

Jurisdictional Class Competitive Class

Travel Percentage 0%

Workweek Mon-Fri

Hours Per Week 40

Workday

From 7:30 AM

To 3:30 PM

Flextime allowed? No

Mandatory overtime? No

Compressed workweek allowed? No

Telecommuting allowed? No

County Jefferson

Street Address Watertown Correctional Facility

23147 Swan Road

City Watertown

StateNY

Zip Code13601

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in correctional studies, counseling, criminal justice, psychology, social work, sociology, or vocational rehabilitation. In addition, you must have:

Two years of experience providing individual and/or group counseling in a recognized correctional, criminal justice, or community/human services program aimed at assisting clients with the resolution of major social, behavioral, and personal problems. Experience must have included responsibility for conducting counseling sessions designed to provide the participants with counseling for significant social and personal problems such as alcohol and drug abuse, mental, behavioral, and emotional problems.
Substitution: A master's degree in correctional studies, counseling, criminal justice, psychology, social work, sociology, or vocational rehabilitation may be substituted for one year of the required experience.
Traineeship:Position will fill a two-year traineeship leading to Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator (Spanish Language), G-19. An appointee's performance in the trainee position and in prescribed training and development programs will be observed and evaluated.
Additional Minimum Qualifications for ORC (Spanish Language): you must also demonstrate your Spanish language proficiency at a level that will assure your ability to perform properly the duties of the position.

Duties Description Required to perform the duties of an Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator (see above) for a caseload which includes monolingual Spanish-speaking offenders: Responsible for administering assessment tools and/or instruments to determine risk and/or needs of an offender to better prepare the individual for eventual return to the community. You would interview offenders and review all relevant information in order to determine counseling needs and make program recommendations. You would evaluate and investigate the offender's program participation while completing legislated reports for Earned Eligibility, Merit Time, and Presumptive Release Reviews. You would provide on-going individual and group counseling relative to personal, social, institutional, behavioral, and disciplinary issues. You would provide guidance to offenders, assessing needs and preparing evaluations for the Board of Parole; You would also serve as a facility-based link between the Board of Parole, criminal justice agencies and law enforcement partners, community service providers, and assigned field staff in developing a supervision plan. You would be responsible for the preparation of comprehensive evaluative summary release reports and the development of case-specific supervision plans that are utilized by the Board of Parole.

Traineeship: As an Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator Trainee 1, you will be expected to perform beginning level professional counseling and case management work under close and continual supervision.

Additional Comments This is a provisional position, pending Civil Service examination 25-482, and being reachable on the exam to remain in the title. If appointed at the trainee 1 level, enter a two-year traineeship leading to the Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator (Spanish Speaking) SG-19.

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Name Tammy Frary

Telephone (315) 782-7490

Fax (315) 782-7490

Email Address Tammy.Frary@doccs.ny.gov

Address

Street Watertown Correctional Facility

23147 Swam Road

City Watertown

State NY

Zip Code 13601

 

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