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Job Description

This position will have hours varied day and evening hours based on institutional needs.

Maintain offender records as outlined in Iowa Correctional Institution for Women/Department of Corrections (ICIW/DOC) policy.
This includes documenting offenders progress, strengths, and collateral contacts.

Completing custody classification, assessments/updated assessments, sexual violence propensity assessments, and conducting/maintaining reentry case plans. In addition, obtaining court reports, complete release process, and entering and retrieving computerized data (ICON) and (I-SMART).

Attend all classification meetings and prepare offenders for eventual release.

Responsibilities include: meeting with offender families, working with volunteers, tracking discharges dates, annuals and processing releases with a multi-disciplinary team.

All Counselors are required to receive reentry Case Management and Gender Responsive training.

Counselors shall perform all case management duties and offender interactions in a gender responsive manner.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Experience equal to four years of full-time work providing individual and group guidance and related counseling services in the areas of social, behavioral, educational, vocational and related program planning;

an equivalent combination of experience and education substituting thirty semester hours (or the equivalent) of post high school coursework for each year of the required work experience to a maximum substitution of four years.

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Additional Qualification Requirements

Designated positions in this job class require applicants to obtain the required Commercial Drivers License within a period of time as determined by the appointing authority at the time of hire.