Being a mental health professional at CCA will put you in a better state of mind.
Practicing your profession in a meaningful, safe, secure, clean, organized environment within the CCA correctional healthcare system will likely be one of the best moves you’ve ever made. And you’ll receive an excellent salary and an extensive list of additional benefits.
One of those additional benefits can’t be measured in dollars or days off, but can be measured in the satisfaction you’ll gain from helping the kind of people who need it most. People who end up in correctional facilities often end up there due to various kinds of instability in their lives. And it’s professionals like you who can literally turn their lives around.
Also, working at CCA means you’ll be able to avoid most of the challenges of private or community practice, including inconsistent hours, scheduling, billing, insurance forms, staff, overhead, and other administrative burdens.
With great workplace autonomy and the ability to participate in the entire continuum of patient care, CCA psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers provide an invaluable service to the inmates in our care and the greater community.
Plus, you’ll find a full range of patients, exciting challenges, and rewarding results. So think about being able to help people who really need it. Because isn’t that exactly why you got into this field in the first place?
Proactive Care
Mental health professionals at CCA are dedicated to helping each individual in our care experience effective, proactive development. This challenging setting offers endless opportunities to use the entire range of your professional skills and to grow in your career. And, unlike the stereotype of movie prisons, all CCA private jail and prison facilities across the nation are modern, clean, safe, and organized. In fact, there are few health care environments that are safer than ours.
Psychiatrists
As a CCA psychiatrist, you’ll provide direct and indirect clinical care to inmates, including crisis intervention, treatment teams, inmate consultations, and supervision of all psychological assessments and care. Our psychiatrists develop and administer individualized treatment plans for participating inmates by obtaining appropriate health data and ordering suitable tests.
Psychologists
Our psychologists and licensed clinical social workers, depending on specific licensure duties, provide care to psychiatric patients by conducting psychological assessments (professionally administering and completing testing, interviews, and evaluations), compiling individual comprehensive psychosocial histories, forming specific treatment plans, and conducting therapy with groups and individuals. You’ll work in treatment teams to develop specific levels of treatment for each patient, chart each inmate’s progress, and assist them in discharge planning in conjunction with community agencies.
CCA offers professional growth opportunities that match and often exceed traditional community care settings. Plus, you’ll enjoy freedom from many administrative burdens found in private practices like insurance, collections, and other costs and concerns. In fact, we encourage all healthcare employees to be assertive and participate in the broad spectrum of inmate care.
Orientation and Training
The professional skills of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers match well with those required in the respective corrections positions. Of course, we do provide complete and specific training and orientation to make sure that you enter your specialty with confidence.
Isn’t it time to consider a safe, proactive work environment where the hours are consistent, the salaries are competitive, the opportunities are endless, and the rewards are immeasurable? Think about it and get in touch.