Sioux Falls, SD9 days ago
What You Will Do: Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: provides professional mental health services to offenders to include formal and informal mental health evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and clinical interventions; provides group and individual counseling and therapy, and crisis intervention to include participation in 24-hour Mental Health On-Call Rotation; assures both emergency and non-emergency transfer for offenders experiencing acute mental health needs; provides clinical direction to non-clinical staff in mental health care and treatment of offenders; assures continuity of care for offenders by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation for receiving units, facilities, or agencies; documents electronically in an accurate and timely manner to provide comprehensive offender mental health records; monitors offender treatment, listens to offender concerns, and provides counseling and direction; promotes and is accountable for the safety and security of the clinical and correctional environment through conscientious observations, and sensitive item contraband control; informs supervisor of any violations of safety and security through the report writing process, attends training programs as assigned, including self-defense course to ensure self-protection skills. Selected individuals must possess the physical ability to successfully complete the practical self-defense exam, which involves the following: lift arms above head and kick as high as own waist; stabilize another person to accomplish a controlled take down; use arms, palms of hands, shins, and feet to deliver blows; withstand impact (slow speed or with a safety bag) on own body from strikes/blows; rotate body 90 degrees with feet planted for striking with foot or using a defensive tactic; get down on one or both knees and up again with multiple repetitions.