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SOCIAL WORKER SENIOR

  • 538565
  • PHOENIX
  • DEPT OF CORRECTIONS
  • Full-time
  • Closing at: Feb 17 2026 - 23:55 MST
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ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, REHABILITATION & REENTRY 

Our mission is to enhance public safety across Arizona through modern, effective correctional practices and meaningful engagements.

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) is committed to creating a safe, secure, and humane correctional system. With public safety top of mind, ADCRR and its more than 8,000 officers and professional staff are driven by a heart for public service and a commitment to deliver perfect effort each day. ADCRR is redefining itself as an agency whose daily work centers on transparency, accountability, and fairness.

STAFF WELLNESS COORDINATOR

(SOCIAL WORKER SENIOR)

Job Location:

Address:  

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH UNIT

701 East Jefferson Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85034


https://corrections.az.gov

Posting Details:

Salary: $72,500.00 

Grade: 23

Closing Date: 02/17/2026

Job Summary:

Are you experienced and passionate regarding clinical staff wellness?
Your service will be the perfect match to Reimagining Corrections while delivering a perfect effort for our community, APPLY NOW !!!

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) is seeking to fill the Staff Wellness Coordinator position, who will provide clinical, consultative, and programmatic support to ADCRR employees who are experiencing occupational stress, cumulative trauma, critical incidents, and work-life challenges inherent to correctional environments. This position also delivers short-term clinical interventions, crisis response, psychoeducation, and referral coordination while supporting peer support teams, and contributing to a comprehensive, trauma-informed staff wellness system.

This is your opportunity to join our great team!

Job Duties:

- Provides Clinical Leadership and Oversight
- Leads all clinical service delivery for the Staff Wellness
- Provides direct clinical supervision and one-on-one coaching to Employee Support Unit (ESU) Leads, guides development, competency, documentation, and alignment with peer-support best practices
- Maintains a caseload, ensures that all services are delivered with the best ethical and professional standards
- Monitors and evaluates program effectiveness, integrates evidence-based metrics to assess clinical outcomes, identifies trends, and improves services
- Provides Program Administration & Operational Oversight
- Oversees daily operations of the Staff Wellness & Employee Support Unit
- Directs the planning, organizes, and supervises wellness initiatives, ensures assessments, documents, and follows up services
- Reviews, revises, and develops policies and procedures, ensures all program operations aligns with professional standards
- Leads and participates in department meetings, serves on committees
- Oversees clinically appropriate discharge planning, referrals, and coordinates with outside specialists or community providers
- Provides Leaderships, Supervision & Workforce Development
- Oversees and provides guidance to ESU team and ensures work quality, accountability, and adherence to ADCRR policy
- Plans, organizes, assigns, and reviews staff work, maintains consistent supervision presence and reliable guidance for the team
- Conducts regular coaching sessions, evaluates and reviews to strengthen staff capability and builds a high-performing workforce
- Leads recruitment, interviews, selects, onboards, and trains new team members
- Addresses personnel issues promptly, applies coaching and disciplinary recommendations
- Provides Collaboration & Education Partner with HR, clinical professionals, and leadership to establish resources networks and ensures alignment with staff health plans and community services
- Conducts Manager awareness trainings to help identify and address behavioral health concerns early
- Provides education on wellness resources and promotes a culture of proactive self-care across all complexes
- Provides Crisis Response
- Guides peer support teams through post-trauma interventions, debriefings, and follows-up care
- Drives on State business
- Performs other duties appropriate to the assignment

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

Knowledge of:
- ADCRR policies, procedures, and Department Orders
- Confidentiality standards
- Evidence-based social work and behavioral health practices applicable to high-stress and public safety environments
- Occupational trauma
- Burnout, secondary traumatic stress, moral injury, and critical incident response
- Crisis intervention models and referral pathways
- Community behavioral health resources, employee assistance resources, and government programs
- Ethical and legal standards governing social work practice and employee services

Skill in:
- Clinical assessment, brief intervention, and crisis response
- Trauma-informed counseling and psychoeducation
- Professional verbal and written communication
- Case consultation, coordination, and documentation
- Program planning, data tracking, and continuous improvement
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams
- Social Worker Senior
- Supervision, leadership, coaching, and program oversight

Ability to:
- Establish and maintain interpersonal relationships at all organizational levels
- Perform staff assessments and develop care plans
- Utilize the facility’s IT program and maintain and record assessments and care plans
- Maintain the highest level of confidentiality
- Evaluate issues, explain rules and regulations
- Social Worker Senior also requires the ability to plan, delegate, and review the work of others

Selective Preference(s):

- Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) form and accredited college or university

Pre-Employment Requirements:

Employment is contingent on the selected applicant passing a background investigation.

Requires the ability to obtain and retain a valid AZ DPS Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card.

Must have an active social work license issued by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners upon placement into position.

In an effort to maintain a safe environment, all employees are required to take a Tuberculosis (TB) test during their New Employee Orientation and every year thereafter.

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job, then the following requirements apply. Any employee operating a motor vehicle on State business must possess and retain a current, valid class-appropriate driver’s license, complete all required training, and successfully pass all necessary driver’s license record checks. The license must be current, unexpired, and neither revoked or suspended. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver’s license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete all required driver training. An employee who operates a personally owned vehicle on state business shall maintain the statutorily required liability insurance (see Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.) R2-10-207.11).

All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

Benefits:

We offer an excellent and affordable comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees:
- Vacation and sick days with 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program).
- Robust and affordable insurance plan to include medical, dental, life, short-term and long-term disability options
- Exceptional retirement program
- Optional employee benefits such as deferred compensation plans, credit union membership, and a wellness program
- An incentivized commuter club and public transportation subsidy program

Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave pilot program here. For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our benefits page

Retirement:

Positions in this classification participate in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS).

Enrollment eligibility will become effective after 27 weeks of employment.

Current ADCRR Employees: Consult with your respective Human Resources Liaison if you are in a different retirement plan than the one indicated above.

Contact Us:

The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by calling (602) 255-2430. Requests should be made as early as possible to allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.

ARIZONA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (AMS)

All Arizona state employees operate within the Arizona Management System (AMS), an intentional, results-driven approach for doing the work of state government whereby every employee reflects on performance, reduces waste, and commits to continuous improvement with sustainable progress.  Through AMS, every state employee seeks to understand customer needs, identify problems, improve processes, and measure results.  
State employees are highly engaged, collaborative and embrace a culture of public service.

The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer.

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements apply: Driver’s License Requirements