Social Worker
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This Social Worker role, located at Taconic Correctional Facility, supports incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children by providing essential case management, therapy, and advocacy services as they transition back into the community.
Responsibilities
- Provide holistic individual case management (intake, assessment, case planning, service plan reviews, and discharge planning)
- Co-facilitate gender-responsive and trauma-informed group programming
- Collaborate with Hour Children’s child and adolescent therapist to support reunification efforts and provide ongoing family support
- Complete and file weekly and monthly progress notes and clinical documents such as bio-psychosocial
- Attend internal staff meetings, trainings, and supervision as well as related external meetings and trainings with resource partners
- Perform additional department or agency related duties or special projects as directed by supervisor
- Comply with all prison procedures, processes, and requirements, including all security regulations and PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) requirements
- Attend all mandatory DOCCS trainings, including orientation refresher, and ensure full compliance with all DOCCS requirements and directives
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in mental health or social work
- LMHC, LLMFT, MHC-LP or LMSW degree
- Strong Counseling skills
- Ability to deliver services in a culturally sensitive manner
- Ability to maintain appropriate boundaries
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in mental health or social work
Nice to Have
- LCSW preferred
- Experience working with high-risk population or in correctional facility setting
- Energetic approach to problem solving with children and adults
- Experience working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Flexibility to work evenings or occasional weekends
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About Hour Children, Inc.
Hour Children is an organization founded to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children successfully rejoin the community, reunify with their families, and build healthy, independent, and secure lives.