Jail Based Competency Restoration Caseworker

Revision Date: September 26, 2024

Stating Salary: $18.59 hourly; $38,672 annually

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Overview

We are an agency committed to innovative behavioral health services in trauma-informed care that promote healing and recovery to instill a sense of empowerment and foster a lifelong sense of resilience.

General Description

The purpose of this job is to provide moderately complex case management work.  Work involves developing and maintaining long-term contact with clients, client families, and service providers for medical, social, educational, and related service needs.  Specific duties and responsibilities may vary dependent upon the functional area assigned.

This class works under close to general supervision according to set procedures but determines how or when to complete tasks.

Duties and Responsibilities

The functions listed below are those that represent much of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position, as necessary.

• Provides on-going case management services, skills training and rehabilitation services for adults, who have been found incompetent by the court of law, with mental illness in a jail facility setting. 
• Coordinates and provides competency restoration related services.
• Demonstrates a positive role model to youth and/or adults and advocates on their and their family's behalf. 
• Responsible for coordination, planning and implementation of the Recovery Plan (treatment plan). 
• Provides rehabilitative services including general symptom management, competency restoration curriculum review, community living skills, and employment related skills to assist with regaining competency and assisting in movement towards client's independence and increase their ability to maintain community tenure.
• Maintains compliance with all training requirements relevant to job duties, including but not limited to those pertaining to interactions with the detained population.
• Conducts crisis intervention for ensuring clients safety.
• Documents services performed for therapeutic consistency, reporting requirements, and data collection.
• Prepares treatment plans/Person Centered Recovery Plans and reviews in order to determine therapeutic goals and maintain consistency between sessions.
• Determines therapeutic needs and severity of symptoms for treatment and to meet regulatory requirements.
• Utilizes best practices, ensures implementation of new/updated protocols, completes review of charts/notes prior to final submission, and attends all training to keep informed.

• Attends clinical supervision with JBCR team, including orientation and training, individual and group supervision. Participates in staffing of cases with teams to provide ethical and evidence informed care to consumers.
• Ensures regulatory documentation via participation in monthly compliance audits and continuous assessment of proper documentation.
• Complies with jail protocols and reports any safety concerns to the appropriate jail personnel.
• Assists with data collection for contractual requirements and other required timely reporting, based on local, state and/or federal reporting requirements.
• Supports the responding to referrals and inquiries from community stakeholders regarding clients who suffer from mental illness and have been found incompetent, while involved in the criminal justice system and meet criteria based on referral form and process for JBCR programs
• Appears in Court as necessary, reporting to Judge, attorneys and district attorney's updates on current screened clients. Advocates for clients' needs, based on what is in the best interest of client's mental and behavioral health treatment, during court; identifies material witnesses to testify on behalf of clients.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in health or human services, Social Services, or related field (three (3) years of experience; or chemical dependency counselor certification preferred); or possession of any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Experience with trauma-informed services; cognitive behavioral therapies, including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT); and motivational therapies including the use of incentives, preferred.

Required Knowledge and Abilities

Knowledge of trauma-informed theories, principles, and practices (includes multi-faceted understanding of concepts such as community trauma, intergenerational and historical trauma, parallel processes, and universal precautions), preferred.

Physical Demands

Performs sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to ten (10) pounds of force on a regular and recurring basis or sustained keyboard operations.

Unavoidable Hazards (Work Environment)

Involves routine and frequent exposure to:

• Bright/dim light
• Dusts and pollen
• Extreme heat and/or cold
• Wet or humid conditions
• Extreme noise levels
• Animals/wildlife.
• Vibration
• Fumes and/or noxious odors.
• Traffic
• Moving machinery
• Electrical shock
• Heights
• Radiation
• Disease/pathogens
• Toxic/caustic chemicals
• Explosives
• Violence
• Other extreme hazards not listed above.

Special Certifications and Licenses

• Must be able to be credentialed as a Qualified Mental Health Practitioner Community Service (QMHP-CS) within the timeframe designated by EHN.
• Must possess and maintain a valid state Driver's License with an acceptable driving record.
• Must be able to pass a TB, extensive criminal background performed by El Paso County Sheriff's Department and drug screen.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliance

Emergence Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires Emergence Health Network to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with management.

Other Job Characteristics

• Staffing requirements, including criteria that staff have diverse disciplinary backgrounds, have necessary State required license and accreditation, and are culturally and linguistically trained to serve the needs of the clinic's patient population.
• Credentialed, certified, and licensed professionals with adequate training in person-centered, family centered, trauma informed, culturally competent and recovery-oriented care.
• Work with stakeholders, clients, and family members, who engage in the criminal justice system.
• Responsible for adhering to the EHN common purpose and service framework to continuously provide exceptional care to all constituents.

Note: This Class Description does not constitute an employment agreement between the Emergence Health Network and an employee and is subject to change by the Emergence Health Network as its needs change.