Correctional Treatment Specialist (Specialty Treatment Program Specialist – Advanced Care Level) Position Available In Williamsburg, South Carolina
Tallo's Job Summary: Correctional Treatment Specialist (Specialty Treatment Program Specialist – Advanced Care Level) at the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System. This position involves providing counseling to inmates with serious mental illnesses, facilitating group and individual sessions, and ensuring security within the correctional facility. The annual salary ranges from $73,939 to $96,116, with a GS 11 pay scale. The job is located in Salters, SC, and requires occasional travel for training purposes. This is a full-time, permanent position with competitive service benefits.
Job Description
Correctional Trement Specialist (Specialty Trement Program Specialist
- Advanced Care Level) Department of Justice Justice, Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System Summary Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 03/10/2025 to 03/24/2025 Salary $73,939
- $96,116 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Locion Salters, SC 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel
- Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues.
Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 11 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Announcement number
WIL-2025-0032
Control number 833451900 This job is open to The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency
THIS IS A DELEGATED EXAMINING ANNOUNCEMENT OPEN TO ALL U.S. CITIZENS.
Duty Locion:
FCI Williamsburg, SC Duties Functions as a Specialty Trement Program Specialist within a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Federal Correctional Facility. Provides group and individual counseling to inmes with the psychological problems targeted by the specialty program.
Advanced Care Level Trement Program:
inmes suffering from serious mental illnesses which adversely impact their ability to function in a general populion setting and/or their opportunity for successful reentry. Provides program oriention lectures to inmes as a part of the institution’s Admissions and Oriention Program. Administers questionnaires and conducts interviews to obtain informion about inmes. Reads inme file records to extract informion relevant to trement. Identifies deficiencies and excesses in inmes’ pterns of thought, feeling, and behavior and recommends or devises steps to remedie them. Learns and applies new assessment and trement techniques for helping inmes overcome psychological problems. Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staffs correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship is Required. See Special Conditions of Employment Section.
Selective Service Requirement:
http://www.sss.gov Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) The ICTAP provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. If your agency has notified you in writing th you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP considerion, you may receive selection priority if: 1)this vacancy is within your ICTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement; and 3) you are found well qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must sisfy all qualificion requirements for the vacant position and re equivalent to the Highly Qualified cegory using established cegory ring criteria. You must provide proof of eligibility with your applicion of ICTAP eligibility or a copy of your separion personnel action form. Additional informion about ICTAP eligibility is : The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing th you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP considerion, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement; and 3) you are found well qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must sisfy all qualificion requirements for the vacant position and re equivalent to the Highly Qualified cegory using established cegory ring criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notificion of CTAP eligibility with your applicion. Additional informion about CTAP eligibility is : Qualificions To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualificion requirements.
Basic Requirements:
A. Degree
- th included least 24 semester hours of course work in the behavioral or social sciences. OR B. Combinion of educion and experience
- th included least 24 semester hours of course work in the behavioral or social sciences, and th provided applicants with knowledge of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a 4-year degree as shown in A above.
Evaluion of Educion:
Courses, such as sociology, correctional administrion, criminal justice, government/political science, psychology, social work, counseling, and other reled social or behavioral science courses may be used to sisfy the 24-semester-hour requirement.
Evaluion of Experience:
Experience must have been gained in (1) casework in a correctional institution or in another criminal justice setting; (2) counseling in any setting, provided it required diagnostic or trement planning skills to achieve specific social or occupional goals; or (3) work treing persons in need of social rehabilition. AND In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must have:
Educion:
Three years of progressively higher level gradue educion leading to a Ph.D. degree PH.D. or equivalent gradue degree. Gradue Educion must have been in corrections or a reled field, such as criminal justice, sociology, psychology, counseling, social work, or other course work reled to the position.
OR Experience:
You must have least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualificions to successfully perform the duties of the position, and must typically be in or reled to the position to be filled. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience faciliting individual and group sessions for inmes or clients in a pre-release program. Experience applying evidence based assessment and trement techniques to achieve trement goals. Experience which demonstres knowledge of principles, theories of human behavior and disorders to provide advance level trement for special inme groups or clients.
OR Combinion of Educion and Experience:
Combinion of successfully completed gradue level educion and specialized experience. This experience must have equipped you with the qualificions to perform the major duties of this position as described above. If applicable, credit given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as number of hours worked per week) spent in the activities.
- Your eligibility for considerion based on your responses to the questions in the applicion.
- Educion See Qualificions Section for educion requirements, if applicable .
ONLY if educion is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verificion of educional requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS the time you apply and MUST include identifying informion to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed a college or university th has obtained accredition or pre-accredition stus from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. For a list of schools th meet this criteria, .
Foreign Educion:
For informion regarding foreign educion requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition the U.S.
Department of Educion website:
. If you are selected for this position and qualified based on educion (i.e. basic educion requirement and/or substitution of educion), you required to provide an
OFFICIAL
transcript prior to your first day on duty. Additional informion This position IS included in the bargaining unit. In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3307, a maximum entry age of 36 has been established for initial appointment to a position in a Bureau of Prisons institution. If you are above the maximum entry age and have prior federal law enforcement coverage, you MUST submit an SF-50 to verify prior coverage. Qualified Preference Eligible Veterans may be exempt from meeting the maximum age. Please refer to the Required Documents Section for the approprie documention to submit to valide veteran eligibility.
Special Conditions of Employment Section:
Appointment is subject to sisfactory completion of a pre-employment and panel interview, urinalysis, physical, and background investigion. All applicants are subject to, and must sisfactorily pass all screening requirements in relion to Nional Crime Informion Center (NCIC) and credit check. All applicants not currently working in an institution required to complete a qualificion inquiry regarding convictions of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence in order to be authorized to carry a firearm. The Core Value Assessment (CVA) is an in-person assessment th must be facilited a Bureau of Prisons Human Resource Servicing office. On the day of the scheduled interview, a CVA administered. The applicant assessment must be completed within a 70 minute time period and a passing score of 68 must be obtained. Further employment considerion will not be extended if the applicant fails to complete the examinion or fails to achieve a passing score.
Note:
The Core Value Assessment will not be administered to current BOP employees. Successful completion of the “Introduction to Correctional Techniques”, three-week training course Glynco, Georgia is required. Additional selections may be made if vacancies occur within the life of the certifice. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How You Will Be Evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Your applicion evalued and red under DOJ’s Cegory Ring and Selection Procedures. Based upon your self-reported responses to the assessment questions during the applicion process, your applicion placed into one of three cegories: Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified . Applicions reviewed from the top quality cegory. Your resume and supporting documention used to determine whether you meet the job qualificions listed in this announcement. If you are found qualified for this job, your resume and supporting documention compared to the responses you provided on the online assessment questionnaire.
NOTE:
Candides within the top quality cegory and who are eligible for veterans preference will receive selection priority over non-veteran preference eligibles. If you are entitled to veterans preference, you should indice the type of veterans preference you are claiming on your resume. Although veterans preference points are not assigned under the cegory ring procedures described under “How You Will Be Evalued”, veterans preference eligibles are listed ahead of non-veterans within each cegory for which they are qualified. In addition, qualified veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 10% or more are placed the top of the highest qualified cegory as defined by cegory ring procedures. Wh Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities are Required for this Position? The following Competencies/Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA’s) are required: Therapy and Counseling Psychology Written Communicion Oral Communicion You may for this vacancy. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required Documents As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have
- whether you’re a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee.
You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you’re eligible under their policies.
Veterans’ Preference Documention:
Veterans MUST provide a DD-214 demonstring th they have been discharged or released from active duty under honorable conditions (i.e., the individual must have received either an honorable or general discharge). If you are on active duty and expect to be discharged or released from active duty service within 120 days, you may submit a Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty from the approprie Branch Personnel Office containing the following informion: (1) the military service des including the expected discharge or release de; (2) and the character of service (must be an honorable or general discharge); and (3) any qualifying service/campaign/expeditionary medals. SF-15: If you are a disabled veteran, a Purple Heart recipient, widow/widower of a veteran, the spouse of a disabled veteran or the parent of a disabled or deceased veteran, submit a completed Standard Form (SF) 15, “Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference”; all other required documention identified on the SF-15, in addition to the veteran’s DD-214 described above. A Department of Veterans Affairs letter must contain: the Veteran’s Name and Combined Service-Connected Evaluion. For a copy of the most current SF-15, . Failure to submit all required documents the time of applicion will result in the loss of claimed preference eligibility.
Resume:
showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee’s position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.) To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented in month/year form (MM/YYYY), reflecting starting de and ending de and include the number of hours worked per week. Failure to follow this form may result in disqualificion.
College transcript:
which includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded (if applicable). (
Note:
If you are selected for this position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day). SF-50: for proof of prior LEO coverage, if applicable. Failure to provide these documents could possibly result in removal from considerion for this vacancy. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD214, or Transcripts. We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply You must apply through the online applicion system www.
USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.
NOTE:
Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the “How to Apply” instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment. Claiming Veterans Preference? If yes, you MUST claim preference on-line during the applicion process and upload documention to support preference claimed. Failure to claim Veterans Preference or provide supporting documention may result in you not receiving approprie considerion during the assessment process. Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded). All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. Supporting documention for announcements with an applicion limition MUST be uploaded the same day you apply, as these positions may close earlier than sted in the announcement.
Paper applicions:
If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure. Contact for Assistance in
Applying On-Line:
DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons Consolided Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, TX 75051
E-Mail:
BOP-HRM-HRSC-ConsolidedStaffingUnit-S@bop.gov
Phone:
972-352-4200 Agency contact informion CSU Phone Address
JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS
Consolided Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 United Stes Next steps We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Applicants notified via e-mail, to the e-mail address registered in USAJOBS. The referral certifice or list of eligibles will then be issued to the selecting official for further considerion. The Human Resource Office may then contact you for an interview if they wish. We expect to make a final job offer within 80 days after the closing de of the announcement. Applicants referred on a certifice of eligibles may receive an Inquiry of Availability (OF-5 Form) via e-mail, mail or a telephone inquiry from the local Human Resource Department. Applicants MUST complete the OF-5 form and return it to the Human Resource Management Office or contact the Human Resource Department telephonically or via e-mail. Applicants MUST also telephone the Human Resource Department during normal business hours to schedule an interview. Failure to either return the form or contact the Human Resource Department will result in a loss of considerion for the position. Fair and Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Required Documents Veterans’ Preference Documention:
Veterans MUST provide a DD-214 demonstring th they have been discharged or released from active duty under honorable conditions (i.e., the individual must have received either an honorable or general discharge). If you are on active duty and expect to be discharged or released from active duty service within 120 days, you may submit a Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty from the approprie Branch Personnel Office containing the following informion: (1) the military service des including the expected discharge or release de; (2) and the character of service (must be an honorable or general discharge); and (3) any qualifying service/campaign/expeditionary medals. SF-15: If you are a disabled veteran, a Purple Heart recipient, widow/widower of a veteran, the spouse of a disabled veteran or the parent of a disabled or deceased veteran, submit a completed Standard Form (SF) 15, “Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference”; all other required documention identified on the SF-15, in addition to the veteran’s DD-214 described above. A Department of Veterans Affairs letter must contain: the Veteran’s Name and Combined Service-Connected Evaluion. For a copy of the most current SF-15, . Failure to submit all required documents the time of applicion will result in the loss of claimed preference eligibility.
Resume:
showing relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee’s position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, etc.) To receive credit for experience contained in an applicion, the experience must be documented in month/year form (MM/YYYY), reflecting starting de and ending de and include the number of hours worked per week. Failure to follow this form may result in disqualificion.
College transcript:
which includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded (if applicable). (
Note:
If you are selected for this position, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day). SF-50: for proof of prior LEO coverage, if applicable. Failure to provide these documents could possibly result in removal from considerion for this vacancy. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD214, or Transcripts. We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply You must apply through the online applicion system www.
USAJOBS.gov. Follow the prompts to register, answer a few questions and submit all required documents.
NOTE:
Submission of a resume alone is not a complete applicion. This position may require the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described under the Required Documents section. Please carefully review the complete job announcement and the “How to Apply” instructions. Failure to provide the required informion and/or merials will result in your applicion not being considered for employment. Claiming Veterans Preference? If yes, you MUST claim preference on-line during the applicion process and upload documention to support preference claimed. Failure to claim Veterans Preference or provide supporting documention may result in you not receiving approprie considerion during the assessment process. Required supporting documention must be electronically uploaded or transferred from USAJOBS (uploaded). All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the closing de of the vacancy announcement. Supporting documention for announcements with an applicion limition MUST be uploaded the same day you apply, as these positions may close earlier than sted in the announcement.
Paper applicions:
If applying online is impossible, please contact the Consolided Staffing Unit the telephone number listed below, prior to the closing de of the announcement for the alterne applicion procedure. Contact for Assistance in
Applying On-Line:
DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons Consolided Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, TX 75051
E-Mail:
BOP-HRM-HRSC-ConsolidedStaffingUnit-S@bop.gov
Phone:
972-352-4200 Agency contact informion CSU Phone Address
JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS
Consolided Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 United Stes Next steps We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Applicants notified via e-mail, to the e-mail address registered in USAJOBS. The referral certifice or list of eligibles will then be issued to the selecting official for further considerion. The Human Resource Office may then contact you for an interview if they wish. We expect to make a final job offer within 80 days after the closing de of the announcement. Applicants referred on a certifice of eligibles may receive an Inquiry of Availability (OF-5 Form) via e-mail, mail or a telephone inquiry from the local Human Resource Department. Applicants MUST complete the OF-5 form and return it to the Human Resource Management Office or contact the Human Resource Department telephonically or via e-mail. Applicants MUST also telephone the Human Resource Department during normal business hours to schedule an interview. Failure to either return the form or contact the Human Resource Department will result in a loss of considerion for the position. Fair & Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 03/10/2025 to 03/24/2025 Salary $73,939
- $96,116 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Locion Salters, SC 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Occasional travel
- Travel may be required for training and/or work reled issues.
Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential 11 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Announcement number
WIL-2025-0032
Control number 833451900 ., .