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Hiring rate: $23.50/per hour plus shift differential (plus $1.50/per hour for every hour worked at the facility)

Location: Norfolk Regional Center 1700 N. Victory Rd. Norfolk, NE.

Schedule: Rotating day and evening shifts, weekends and holiday

The Norfolk Regional Center is Phase I of the Nebraska Sex Offender Treatment Program. The Sex Offender Treatment Program is for patients who have completed their criminal sentence but have been deemed at high risk to sexually reoffend if outside an inpatient treatment facility.
As a Mental Health Specialist you will assist our multi-disciplinary teams in therapeutic treatment plans and perform a range of security functions to create a therapeutic environment for the care and treatment of sex offenders with mental illnesses and/or personality disorders that have been committed directly from the prison to the Nebraska Sex Offender program. The Mental Health Specialist will provide direct care services of both a security and treatment nature including but not limited to: day to day supervision of patient activities, therapeutic interactions with the patients, facilitation of psycho-educational group activities, documentation of patient behaviors and the escort and supervision of patients throughout the facility for patient personal development.

REQUIREMENTS: Be at least 19 years of age to work with adult client populations. Valid driver's license.

PREFERRED: One or more years of education or experience in human services or stable experience in customer service or military service, where the candidate is working with others, directly or indirectly.