CORRECTIONAL CASE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST TRAINEE

If you are looking for an exciting career with great benefits, pension, generous leave, competitive salary, and the opportunity for advancement and professional growth, apply to join the DPSCS team today!

The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) is seeking dedicated candidates to fill important roles within our department. We are one of the largest departments in Maryland with nearly 12,000 employees and a budget of more than $1 billion. In order to fulfill our mission of promoting safety, we have increased security at our institutions while leading the way in innovative restorative justice projects that will help offenders reintegrate into society upon release.

• Reviews, recommends and provides oversight of re-entry and transitional services, and community initiatives for all correctional facilities.  
• Ensures initiatives, programs and activities are in compliance with mission, policies including recruiting service providers to deliver services; facilitating orientation and training sessions; preparing community-based staff for working in a correctional setting, including background checks, interviews, and orientation; maintaining records pertaining to community-based staff/organizations; in cooperation with facility staff schedule facility programs; collaborating with social work, case management and designated staff to recruit incarcerated persons for program participation and submit monthly and annual reports to the Director of Re-entry and Transition Services, as well as designated staff.
• Provide direct service to the incarcerated person  population through the development of re-entry plans to include assistance with employment exploration and placement.
• Assist in the development and implementation of policy and procedures to coordinate all correctional facilities' transition programs to achieve Department standards of performance.
• Participates in the program planning process by developing incarcerated person release and service forecasters, and assists in the development of proposals or procedures for orderly growth and expansion of incarcerated person programs.
• Chairs facility program workgroup meetings, multi-disciplinary teams and other meetings as designated.  Evaluates, guides, and supports facility with re-entry initiatives at all Departmental facilities.
• Prepares statistical and narrative reports.   Coordinates correctional facility staff preparation and development of program flow charts and work performance criteria necessary to measure attainment levels.
• Confers with other administrative officials, program heads, staff specialists or community agency representatives in order to exchange information, constructively influence actions pertaining to incarcerated person programs, and interpret policies and offer recommendation to programs.
• Trains Facility Coordinators.
• Liaison for the Local Re-entry Program; to ensure designate staff coordinate the institutional process of identification, screening, referring, and submitting the transfer packet for review and the transferring of eligible participants to the local detention centers.

Education:   A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.

Experience: None.

Note: The above educational requirement is set by the Maryland Correctional Training Commission in accordance with Title 12, Subtitle 10 of the Code of Maryland Regulations.

Please make sure that you provide sufficient information on your application to show that you meet the qualifications for this recruitment. All information concerning your qualifications must be submitted by the closing date. We will not consider information submitted after this date. Successful candidates will be ranked as Best Qualified, Better Qualified, or Qualified and placed on the eligible (employment) list for at least one year.

The assessment may consist of a rating of your education, training, and experience related to the requirements of the position. It is important that you provide complete and accurate information on your application. Please report all experience and education that is related to this position.

STATE OF MARYLAND BENEFITS

Online applications are highly recommended. However, if you are unable to apply online, the paper application and supplemental questionnaire may be emailed to the HR Analyst. Paper application materials must be received in our office by the closing date for the recruitment.

If you are submitting additional information, the preferred method is to upload it with your application. All uploaded additional information must be received by the closing date and time. If you are unable to upload, please email the requested information to the HR Analyst.  Only additional materials that are requested will be accepted for this recruitment.

For questions regarding this recruitment, please contact the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, HRSD-Recruitment Division, HR Analyst for this recruitment: