Correctional Counselor

About this role

<undefined><span style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" data-pasted="true">Iowa Medical and Classification Center (IMCC) serves as the reception and classification center for all those entering the adult male institutional corrections system, which is estimated to be 400-500 new commitments every month that are then processed on to the other facilities.&nbsp;</span></undefined><br><br><undefined><span style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">IMCC is a multi-faceted facility that employs a diversified professional workforce providing comprehensive services to both offenders and patients.&nbsp;</span></undefined><br><undefined><span style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">A medium security general population unit is in operation at IMCC and the Center also runs the only licensed forensic psychiatric hospital in the state, providing inpatient psychiatric and evaluation services to non-adjudicated patients.&nbsp;</span></undefined><br><undefined><span style="color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">An additional unit consisting of 1

Requirements

Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification: <br><br><ol style="margin-bottom: 3pt"><li>Four years of full-time work experience in providing individual and group guidance and related counseling services in the areas of social, behavioral, educational, vocational and related program planning; or performing correctional, law enforcement, or jail administration duties involving community reentry preparation, pro-social behavior modeling, or supervision of individuals in work assignments. </li><li>A total of four years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university coursework in any field equals one year of full-time experience.