This part-time Licensed Social Worker (Mental Health Clinician) position provides group and individual counseling services to Kintock clients; Intake, assessment ongoing assessment for program eligibility, monitoring all aspects of care and client services, and ensuring that the needs of clients are met, may be included at discretion of Program Director.
Required Knowledge, Abilities and Experience:
Knowledge of:
· Modern principles of criminal justice, community corrections and therapeutic communities.
· Counseling and casework methods and techniques appropriate for offender population.
· Individual and group behavior of persons with criminal backgrounds.
· Custody and accountability standards for contracting agencies.
Ability to:
· To understand and comply with contract rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
· Work with offenders to gain their confidence and cooperation.
· Participate as an effective member of a program team.
· Execute Contract Statement of Work regarding Mental health counseling.
· Clearly express ideas orally and in writing.
· Establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff and clients.
· Communicate effectively with staff, clients, and agency representatives.
· Manage a flexible work schedule; (Hybrid) and
· Maintain contracting agency clearance.
· Maintain a valid drivers’ license in good standing.
Work and Academic Experience
Licensed NJ Professional Counselor (LPC), or NJ Licensed Associate Professional Counselor (LAC), Licensed NJ Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)and assessing mental health disorders, helping people improve their lives, careers and family situations, and therapy based on the workings of the mind rather than on medical approaches.
Kintock is a non-profit organization that provides quality reentry programs that assist individuals in making and sustaining transformative life changes.
Kintock has successfully designed and implemented community-based reentry programs for more than three decades and has a proven track record in the field of community corrections. Founded in 1985, the Kintock Group, Inc. and the Kintock Group of New Jersey, Inc. are not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporations that specialize in providing community-based treatment services that address the individual needs of adult offenders. Kintock operates residential and community resource centers and provides services under contracts with New Jersey’s Department of Corrections and State Parole Board, with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and with the Department of Corrections in Pennsylvania.
Kintock is devoted to providing these services in the most professional manner possible by utilizing qualified staff, well-recognized curricula, the most effective evidence-based treatment concepts and models, and by conducting ongoing research and assessment to ensure that its vision for quality, integrity and accountability in community corrections is met.
Kintock has a positive presence in the communities, garnering the support of local community organizations, businesses, elected officials and law enforcement.
As a company, our organization is committed to forging effective public and private partnerships to enhance and broaden its programs and to promote the successful reintegration of offenders into society.
