Staff Social Worker, Prisons and Justice Initiative Georgetown University

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Staff Social Worker, Prisons and Justice Initiative - Georgetown University

Job Overview

The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) was founded in 2016 in order to address the national crisis of mass incarceration, one of the most urgent moral and political issues of our time. In addition to an extensive series of academic and policy events, PJI offers a series of innovative courses to Georgetown undergraduates, including one (Making an Exoneree) that involves direct advocacy on behalf of wrongfully convicted people. Additionally, PJI has developed several programs serving incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in the DC area, including both Georgetown credit-bearing courses for incarcerated students (the Prison Scholars Program at the DC Jail) and certificate programs in business and entrepreneurship (the Pivot Program) and paralegal studies (the MORCA-Georgetown Paralegal Program) for returning citizens.

In 2022, PJI began offering a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree program to incarcerated students at the Patuxent Institution in Jessup, Maryland. In all of its programming, PJI works to better understand the causes and consequences of the mass incarceration crisis, contribute to bipartisan solutions for effective reform, and improve the lives of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in the DC area and beyond.

The Staff Social Worker, a licensed independent clinical social worker, provides targeted and stable support to our reentry program participants, students and staff. They identify those who need help, assess client needs and situations to formulate goals, and refer clients to community resources such as childcare and healthcare; and they advocate for their clients at government and non-profit organizations and follow-up with them to monitor their progress.

Reporting to the Director of Education, the Staff Social Worker has duties that include but are not limited to:

Clinical Social Work

• Assess and diagnose program participants.
• Create treatment strategies.
• Refer program participants to third-party providers as needed.
• Provide ongoing counseling and treatment.
• Deliver individual and group therapy.

Case Management

• Research and advocate for appropriate public assistance resources for clients.
• Provide crisis intervention as needed.
• Ensure that all case files and other records strictly comply with policies, regulations, and procedures.
• Coordinate treatment planning and maintain ongoing contact with outpatient providers for the continual care of program participants.

Needs and Risk Assessment

• Conduct initial assessments of clients' situation to determine needs and goals.
• Lead a team of paraprofessional needs and risk assessors in the use of structured professional judgment tools.
• Review assessments and improve processes and deliberation.

Training

• Actively participates in ongoing training as needed in order to meet all certification standards and credentialing policies.
• Develops and provides staff training for needed skills.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Social Work
• LICSW or LISW in Washington, DC
• 5 years of experience
• Familiarity with DC and regional social services
• Both clinical and case management experience
• Experience planning and standardizing assessment and crisis response to acute and emergent client needs
• Experience managing and documenting cases and or processes, producing reports and maintaining files
• Proficiency with use of standard office software programs such as MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Excellent organizational and communications skills - both written and verbal
• Strong organizational, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong communications skills -both written and verbal
• Ability to work with and relate to individuals of diverse backgrounds, including the formerly incarcerated, and service providers within the criminal justice system in a professional and compassionate manner
• Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner
• Ability to adhere to high standards of confidentiality

Work Mode: On campus. Please note that work mode designations are regularly reviewed in order to meet the evolving needs of the University. Such review may necessitate a change to a position's mode of work designation. Complete details about Georgetown University's mode of work designations for staff and AAP positions can be found on the Department of Human Resources Mode of Work Designation.

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EEO Statement:

Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer fully dedicated to achieving a diverse faculty and staff. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, and sexual orientation), disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Benefits:

Georgetown University offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, retirement savings, tuition assistance, work-life balance benefits, employee discounts and an array of voluntary insurance options. You can learn more about benefits and eligibility on the Department of Human Resources website.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements:

The Georgetown University community is committed to our public health approach and the important role that vaccines play in contributing to the safety of our University and our broader communities. Georgetown University requires students, faculty, staff and visitors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot when eligible, or to have an approved medical or religious exemption. This requirement applies to all faculty and staff, including teleworking employees. Complete details and updates can be found in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Center.


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