What are the responsibilities and job description for the SEX OFFENDER THERAPIST position at GEO Secured Services?
Full-time employees will enjoy a competitive benefits package with options for you and your family including:
* Paid Time Off | * Paid Holidays |
* 401(k) Matching | * Health Insurance |
* Vision Insurance | * Life Insurance |
* Health Savings Account | * Tuition Reimbursement |
* Employee Discount | * Reduced Tuition Rates |
* Disability Insurance | * Employee Assistance Program |
* 401(k) | * Pet Insurance |
* Dental Insurance | * Paid Training |
* Flexible Spending Account |
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The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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 conducts individual, group, or family therapy; documents and records inmate progress; participates in treatment planning; conducts discharge planning; assesses and evaluates the psychological and social functional of inmates.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Facilitates individual, group, or family therapy sessions for detainees.
- Develops individualized treatment plans for detainees and conducts developmental therapy sessions with them in accordance to treatment plans and specific methodologies and techniques.
- Maintains caseload including documentation of case notes, arranging individual and family sessions, planning interventions and providing therapeutic support to all assigned clients.
- Maintains thorough, detailed, and accurate client/family case files and records.
- Confers with other members of the treatment or therapy team to discuss, plan, and determine additional courses of action for continued therapy. Assists fellow team members and supervisor in program planning, office management and filing duties, group planning, program changes, and other interventions.
- Provides feedback, consultation, and recommendations to treatment teams regarding a detainee's progress or lack thereof to assist in staffing recommendations.
- Confers with agency officials, staff members and representatives of other agencies to acquire information needed for immediate determinations or decisions.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Master's degree in clinical psychology, psychiatric nursing, (psychiatric) social work, behavioral science, activities therapy or a closely related field of preparation for direct treatment of inmates with psychological problems, and two (2) years of practice experience working with sex offenders population.
- State licensing as a Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
- Must be able to perform therapeutic interaction with inmates who have serious psychological problems.
- Must be able to perform psychological evaluation and assessment.
- Must posses a dynamic personality that is flexible enough to evolve with each detainee through the entire therapeutic process.
- Must be able to actively listen to the detainees and pay specific attention to non verbal or convert forms of communications.
- Must posses coping skills (empathic, nurturing, compassionate, etc.).
GEO Secured Services
The GEO Group is an equal opportunity employer. Geo will recruit, hire, train, promote, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, and disability, or other category protected by law, and we will ensure that all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements. As a federal government contractor, it is GEO's policy to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment minorities, females, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. GEO will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business.