Mental Health Clinician 2 (PCN 20-8660)

JOB
The Department of Corrections, Division of Health & Rehabilitation Services, is recruiting for a Mental Health Clinician 2 to join the team at the Goose Creek Correctional Center (GCCC), located in Mackenzie Point, Alaska. Watch Alaska DOC HARS video here: https://vimeo.com/789872805/e68dd6b1e3What You Will Be Doing: Incumbents under the direct supervision of a Mental Health Clinician 3 will: Screen & triage inmates presenting with a wide variety of diagnoses including severe and persistent mental illness, behavior problems, organic disorders, alcohol/drug abuse, developmental disabilities and personality disorders.Provide supportive individual counseling and treatment planning for inmates on the mental health caseload.Provide crisis intervention services, including suicide assessments and development of safety plans for inmates as needed.Facilitate group programming aimed at the adjustment and rehabilitation of inmates.Our Mission, Values, and Culture: The HARS Mission Statement: To provide timely access to essential care through an evidence-based multidisciplinary approach. We are committed to a culture of professionalism, quality, and safety.We seek applicants who are interested in furthering the HARS Mission and who will strive to uphold the Division's Core Values of Respect, Integrity, Compassion, Teamwork and Safety.Benefits of Joining Our Team: Join a multidisciplinary team of professionals who are dedicated to providing quality care to Alaska’s incarcerated population. The Department of Corrections is the state’s largest behavioral health provider, we offer unique professional development opportunities, while helping to build stronger communities.The Working Environment You Can Expect: This position will be assigned to open population mental health treatment team at Goose Creek Correctional Center in Wasilla. Clinicians assigned to this team provide assessments, milieu management, crisis intervention; release planning; therapeutic groups; supportive counseling; and coordination with security, medical and mental health staff.Who We Are Looking For: We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies: Adaptability: Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.Stress Tolerance: Deals calmly and effectively with high stress situations (for example, tight deadlines, hostile individuals, emergency situations, dangerous situations).Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

EXAMPLE OF DUTIES
Competency Based Minimum Qualifications InstructionsThis job class uses competency based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.Competency DescriptionThe competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.Mental Health Clinician 2:Master’s degree from an accredited college in counseling, psychology, social work, child guidance, vocational rehabilitation, or a closely related field.ANDAny combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities in: Analysis and Assessment: Uses information technology in accessing, collecting, analyzing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information.Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.Psychology: Knowledge of the concepts, principles, and theories of human behavior and performance in various contexts, mental processes, or the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental ailments, and career guidance.Equivalent to those typically gained by: Professional experience performing psychotherapeutic casework.“Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment."Training" and "education" in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs."Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.Special Note: Some positions require the incumbent be licensed as a Clinical Social Worker or a Licensed Professional Counselor. This requirement will be addressed in the job posting.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
Traci TushaMental Health Clinician 3907-864-8280traci.tusha@alaska.gov