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Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator

Grade 19

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  1. Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator Tr 1

    Similar to Grade 13

  2. Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator Tr 2

    Similar to Grade 15

  3. Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator

    Grade 19

  4. Supvg Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator

    Grade 22

Summary of Job Description

As an Offender Rehabilitation Coordinator, you would be responsible for administering assessment tools and/or instruments to determine risk and/or needs of an inmate to better prepare the individual for eventual return to the community. You would interview inmates and review all relevant information in order to determine counseling needs and make program recommendations. You would evaluate and investigate the inmates’ 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 inmates, 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 when rendering discretionary release decisions and when establishing conditions of release for all inmates released to parole and post-release supervision, and strict and intensive supervision and treatment (SIST) under Article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law in the correctional facilities of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

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Summary of Minimum Qualifications

Please note: qualifications for this position may be subject to change. If substitutions for education and/or experience are allowed, this information would be available on the announcement.

You must take and pass a Civil Service examination in order to be considered for this position.

On or before the date of the exam, you must have a bachelor’s degree with a major in community health and family studies, correctional studies, counseling, criminal justice, human services, psychology, public justice, social work, sociology, or vocational rehabilitation AND 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 participant(s) with counseling for social and personal problems such as alcohol and drug abuse, mental, behavioral, and emotional problems.

Substitution: A master’s degree with a major in community health and family studies, correctional studies, counseling, criminal justice, human services, psychology, public justice, social work, sociology, or vocational rehabilitation may be substituted for one year of the required experience.

Non-Qualifying Experience: Group work oriented toward behavior modification in such areas as self-improvement of tobacco cessation, crisis intervention, or case management alone is NOT qualifying experience.

For informational purposes only, click on the examination number(s) listed below to see the current or previous examination(s) that are used to fill this title.

26-151

How to Apply

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Career Mobility

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