Justice Involved Therapist

Description

Schedule:

Full Time: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, flexible schedule and hybrid work available.

Pay Ranges:

LP $29.81/ hour

LMSW/LMHC: $31.25/ hour

LCSW: $34.62- $42.31/hour

This position is eligible for a $5,000 sign on bonus!

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance. Ability to select just dental and vision insurance.

• Flexible scheduling to help support work-life balance.

• Hybrid remote work options available.

• 401(k) with employer match: THRIVE matches 100% of the first 3% you contribute and 50% of contributions between

3% and 5%.

• Paid Time Off (PTO):

- Years 1-2 144 hours (18 days)

- Years 3–11: Increases by 8 hours (1 day) each year, from 152 to 216 hours (19–27 days)

- Year 15-35: Continued incremental increases

What you will do:

 Serve at the intersection of behavioral health, recovery, and the criminal justice system. We are seeking an experienced, mission-driven therapist to provide high-impact clinical services to individuals involved with the criminal justice system in jail-based and drug court based settings. This role is ideal for a clinician who is confident working with complex mental health needs, co-occurring substance use disorders, trauma histories, crisis situations, and systems-level collaboration. You will help clients stabilize, build insight, strengthen recovery supports, and prepare for safer, healthier outcomes during incarceration and reentry. This is more than a traditional therapy position. You will be part of a cross-system response that recognizes behavioral health care as essential to public safety, recovery, and long-term stability. Your clinical expertise can help reduce crisis cycles, strengthen reentry outcomes, and connect individuals to meaningful support at a critical point in their lives.

Job Duties

• Provide individual and group therapy for clients with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders in a jail setting.
• Complete clinical assessments, treatment plans, safety planning, crisis intervention, and ongoing documentation.
• Support clients navigating court involvement, incarceration, probation/parole expectations, reentry planning, and community-based treatment connections.
• Collaborate with jail staff, medical providers, attorneys, probation/parole, courts, community agencies, and family/support systems when appropriate and authorized.
• Use evidence-informed approaches such as motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral strategies, trauma-informed care, harm reduction, relapse prevention, and recovery-oriented planning.
• Identify risk factors, protective factors, behavioral health needs, and barriers to successful community reintegration.
• Maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality, ethical standards, and clinical judgment within a correctional environment.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Required: Possession of a current valid New York State license through the Department of Education for LMSW, LCSW, LCSW-R, LMHC, LMFT.

Preferred: At least one (1) year of prior experience working in a mental health setting.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Must maintain a valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record. Must maintain current valid New York State license through the Department of Education for LMSW, LCSW, LCSW-R, LMHC, LMFT.