PSYCHOLOGIST, CORRECTIONAL
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.
As a member of the DPSCS team, you can have a fulfilling career, while also enjoying a wide range of benefits such as medical and dental coverage, paid time off (i.e. vacation, sick leave), becoming vested in the State pension, supplemental retirement options, and even joining the Maryland State Employees Credit Union.
The main purpose of this position is to perform independent psychological services in a correctional institution at the Doctoral level in order to meet required standards for providing psychological services to incarcerated adults within a State Correctional Institution. The correctional psychologist is responsible for the supervision, direction and management of the facility’s Mental Health Department.
- Assesses the incarcerated individuals psychological and behavioral status to determine appropriate mental health services using psychological testing and psychotherapeutic techniques
- Conducts individual and group therapy with incarcerated individuals within the Correctional Institution
- Intervenes in a crisis to deescalate the situation using crisis intervention techniques and suicide prevention planning
- Develops treatment and rehabilitation plans for incarcerated individuals who need ongoing therapeutic intervention, implements the plans following psychotherapeutic protocols
- Screens and identifies the mental health needs the incarcerated individual and refers for other services such as psychiatric care, inpatient mental health services, case management, as well as community resources for continuing care upon release
- Provides clinical supervision and managerial direction to the facility’s mental health/psychology department
- Documents the services rendered of those treated by recording services and incarcerated individual events in the electronic health record
- Represents the interests and needs of incarcerated individuals mental health in meetings, including but not limited to administrative staff meetings, custody staff meetings, segregation reviews, medical case reviews, quality assurance reviews, psychiatric case consultation and suicide prevention meetings
