CORRECTIONAL SERVICES COUNSELOR

This is professional work in the selection, placement, counseling and oversight of inmates assigned to correctional programs. The work requires knowledge of counseling principles, theories, practices and techniques usually gained through formal education and work experience. Contacts require skills in understanding and influencing others and are important in conducting interviews, obtaining social histories, and placing of individuals into programs. The work is performed following substantially diversified procedures and specialized standards; however, the incumbent has latitude to consider which procedures to follow and in what sequence to achieve the required job results. The counseling work involves differing situations requiring the use of judgment in searching for solutions or new applications within one's own experience. The work is performed in a correctional facility environment, where risks and hazards are generally known, predictable, and controllable; however, control of situations is occasionally limited due to working with inmates. Operates personal computers, copiers, and other standard office equipment. The physical demands of the work are minimal. The work is performed under limited supervision where the work assignments are subject to established procedures, practices, precedents, methods, techniques, and well-defined policies; the worker plans and organizes the work and determines own priorities; and the work is reviewed, usually after the fact, in terms of quality, volume, timeliness, and adherence to established methods, standards, and policies.