POSITIONS IN CUMBERLAND AND HAGERSTOWN. A correctional case management specialist trainee is the entry level of work assessing, screening, and evaluating the personal and criminal history of adult inmates in order to recommend a security level, appropriate work and program assignments, suitability for parole, institutional transfer, restoration of forfeited diminution credits, community access programs, and other issues necessary to public safety and security and control of the institution. Attends formal training courses at the Maryland Correctional Training Academy; Learns to interview inmates to obtain information used to determine the appropriate security levels, work assignments and educational programs; Learns to meet with inmates individually to help resolve inmates institutional and personal problems; Learns to maintain an accurate and up-to-date base file on each inmate; Learns to review an inmate's file to determine the inmate's needs and eligibility for specialized programs; Learns to develop program goals designed to address the inmate's educational, vocational and therapeutic needs; Consults with program staff to monitor the inmate's progress in reaching program goals; Contacts public and private agencies and families of inmates to secure background information; Learns the Division of Correction regulations and the institutional directives of the employing agency; Learns to prepare pre-parole summaries and make recommendations on the inmates' suitability for parole; May visit Pre-Release work sites to monitor the inmate's and the employer's compliance with Division of Correction regulations. Must be willing to work within a correctional institution and interact directly with inmates and offenders.