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PSYCHOLOGIST II

Salary

$93,768.00 - $131,280.00 Annually

Location

Statewide, CO

Job Type

Full Time

Job Number

IIB 05208 5/20/2025

Department

Colorado Department of Human Services

Division

OBH (Office of Behavioral Health)

Opening Date

05/20/2025

Closing Date

6/3/2025 11:59 PM Mountain

FLSA

Determined by Position

Type of Announcement

This position is open only to Colorado state residents.

Primary Physical Work Address

1600 W. 24th Street, Pueblo, CO 81003

FLSA Status

Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.

Department Contact Information

[email protected]

How To Apply

Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

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Department Information

This position is open to current Colorado residents only.

The compensation for this position will be based upon years of professional licensure.

Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for a great benefit package! Please see the Supplemental Information section below for details! (https://dhr.colorado.gov/state-employees/state-of-colorado-employee-benefits)

About the Unit

Located within the Colorado Department of Human Services, the Office of Civil and Forensic Mental Health (OCFMH) is responsible for policy development, service provision and coordination, program monitoring and evaluation, and administrative oversight for the public behavioral health system. OCFMH funds, supports and monitors numerous mental health and substance abuse community programs and providers. OCFMH also operates the Colorado Mental Health Hospitals at Fort Logan and Pueblo and the Forensic Services Division. OCFMH executes the States’ federal responsibilities as the State Mental Health Authority and State Substance Abuse Authority for the purposes of administering federal mental health and substance abuse block grant funds.

The Forensic Services Division is responsible for six departments including Forensic Community Based Services (FCBS), Jail Based Evaluation and Restoration (JBR), Outpatient Restoration (OPR), the Forensic Support Team (FST), the Court Services Department, and the Operations Department. The Court Services Department employs forensically practicing psychologists to provide evaluative services statewide, with staff in Pueblo, Denver, and other locations. Evaluators complete all court ordered forensic evaluations for defendants in criminal cases as so ordered by the court. These evaluations are performed in the jail, in the community, at CMHHIP, or at CMHHIFL and are performed by psychologists and psychiatrists, as mandated in the Colorado Statute, 16-8.5.

Our teams work within various settings including community agencies, jails, courts, and hospitals. The locations can include locked units and secure facilities and our clients may at times be unpredictable due to their mental health needs. Our team is required to make critical decisions in dynamic and fast-paced environments in order to ensure a high level of accountability for patient care. Our staff are required to maintain updated skills, knowledge, abilities, and competencies necessary to the position through continuing education, clinical supervision, literature review, and discipline and team development. This position may be required to travel throughout Colorado to meet the needs of the department.

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Description of Job

Purpose of this Position

The purpose of this position is to provide clinical and administrative supervision to Court Services evaluators, serve as a subject matter expert in designated forensic subspecialities, contribute to the establishment of best practices, policies, and procedures for the work unit, contribute to stakeholder engagement, education, training, and legislative review, and continue to practice forensic evaluation. In doing evaluations, this position is responsible for providing proper mental health diagnoses, statutory opinions, and testimony. In doing so, psychological testing measures may be required, which this position is responsible for maintaining an appropriate breadth and depth of knowledge for commonly utilized measures. This position often collaborates with internal and external stakeholders in their area of expertise and supports training needs of the department for both staff and trainees. Within supervision, this position is responsible for the oversight of evaluator schedules, assignments, productivity reviews, quality assurance reviews, feedback, performance reviews, progressive discipline, and departmental communications. This position is required to remain up to date with expert knowledge in internal process, statute, case law, best practices, and legislation. The consultation provided by this position is accepted as fact and is considered staff expert opinion that will directly influence decision making. Lastly, this position may contribute to departmental data tracking, analysis, and interpretation in order to provide data driven recommendations. Supervisory staff are responsible for completing a variety of forensic evaluations; however, each also has a designated area of expertise

Supervisory staff are responsible for completing a variety of forensic evaluations; however, each also has a designated area of expertise. This position is responsible for serving as the subject matter expert for quality assurance and will also oversee our contracted evaluator workforce.

Primary Job Duties

Supervision

+ Responsible for employee supervisory duties within the work unit. This includes provision of clinical and administrative supervision, professional development, employee performance evaluations, employee performance plans, corrective and disciplinary actions, monitoring staff assignments and quota, staff scheduling, position descriptions, recruitment, retention, interviewing and hiring, onboarding, training, and ensuring division-wide required training has been completed

+ Facilitates newly hired psychologists’ orientation, in collaboration with the department

+ Responsible for completion of department specific audits to support high quality report writing and professional growth

+ Responsible for communicating goals, objectives, and division/department announcements through the most effective means (e.g., staff meetings, email, individual interactions, etc.)

+ Reviews productivity numbers with employees, sets expectations, and administers performance improvement plans as needed

+ Promotes operational and administrative compliance with Forensic Services and CDHS policies and procedures, the American Psychological Association Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, the Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology, all State/Federal Statutes, and State Licensing/Credentialing and Regulatory Board standards

Forensic Evaluations

+ Practices and completes evaluations on behalf of the department. The type of forensic evaluations completed may vary based on subject matter expertise, departmental demand, and individual interest

+ Supervisors complete an average of six restoration and/or competency evaluations (or the equivalent based on sanity, mental condition, risk, release, or juvenile evaluations) per month

+ Supervise evaluators across the State and may complete evaluations across the State in order to respond to fluctuating courts orders. The supervisor will travel to locations throughout Colorado in order to respond to short deadlines and the need for prompt and in some cases immediate response to a court ordered evaluation. This will require the maintaining of a valid regular class Colorado Driver’s license for the duration of employment

Subject Matter Expert (SME): Training and Consultation

+ Expects to hold and maintain subject matter expertise in forensic evaluations, which requires ongoing education and review of relevant research/literature, national best practices, case law, and state statute

+ Holds specialized knowledge, this position will create training for internal and external stakeholders as needed on behalf of the Department and as identified by the Court Services leadership team

+ Ensures the training needs of contracted employees are met, which may involve separate training sessions from our internal staff training sessions

+ Supervises and are actively involved in the annual departmental training in order to provide support to evaluators and ensure quality evaluations and may also directly support student training opportunities for externs, interns, and fellows in both clinical and didactic forms

+ Performs as an SME, these positions will be relied upon for statutory change proposals and legislative hearings

+ Maintains subject matter expertise in quality assurance as it relates to best practices for forensic evaluations. As such, this position will directly inform internal best practices, report templates, and auditing tools

Policy and Procedure:

+ Supervises and is expected to be a direct contributor to the establishment and updating of all Court Services policies and procedures and may be asked to contribute to Division wide policy and procedures. In doing so, there may be certain data this position is required to track as it pertains to their role or the role of those they supervise in order to make data informed decisions

+ Responsible for ensuring direct report staff are knowledgeable of all policy and procedure on an ongoing basis. Should staff struggle to adhere to policy and procedure, the supervisor is responsible for addressing this through performance measures

+ Supervises in collaboration with department leadership are responsible for identifying gaps or barriers to successful implementation and identifying when policy or procedure may need to be updated to meet the changing needs of the department

Other Duties as Assigned:

This position may be called upon to perform tasks or undertake special assignments or projects deemed necessary by OCFMH, but not specifically referenced in the above duties

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Minimum Qualifications:

Education/Licensure/Certification/Experience:

Current, valid licensure as a Psychologist from the Colorado State Board of Psychologist Examiners

Three (3) yearsof experience as licensed psychologist or permitted psychologist candidate, two of which must have been at the level of a fully operating psychologist

The compensation for this position will be based upon years of professional licensure.

Preferred Qualifications

+ 3 years of experience working independently as a forensic evaluator

+ Experience with a variety of forensic evaluations including competency to stand trial, restoration evaluations, violence risk, conditional release, mental condition, and/or sanity evaluations.

+ Prior experience conducing violence risk and/or conditional release evaluations

+ Previous state experience

Conditions of Employment:

+ Must possess current psychologist license with the State of Colorado

+ Full background check and reference check required

+ Annual influenza and other vaccines as required by the State of CO

+ May require extensive travel between offices, Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Pueblo, and Fort Logan. May be required to utilize state vehicle

+ Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must (1) disclose that information on the application (2) provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position, (3) provide the employee number from the applicant’s prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination and failure to provide this information will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

Appeal Rights:

If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.

An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email ([email protected]), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department’s action.

For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov ; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.

Supplemental Information

How to Apply (https://cdhs.colorado.gov/information-for-job-applicants#how-to-apply)

The Assessment Process

For additional recruiting questions, please contact [email protected] ([email protected])

About Us

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (https://www.colorado.gov/cdhs) (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

+ Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan www.copera.org plus 401(k) and 457 plans

+ Medical and dental health plans

+ Employer supplemented Health Savings Account

+ Paid life insurance

+ Short- and long-term disability coverage

+ 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave

+ BenefitHub state employee discount program

+ Employee Wellness program (https://coloradostateofhealth.com/)

+ Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more

+ Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

*Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more

information, go to https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/student-loan-forgiveness-programs .

Our Values

We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans .

Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.

We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.

Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.

We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.

Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

ADAA Accommodations: CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at [email protected] or call 1-800-929-0791.

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The State of Colorado offers permanent employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, as well as a comprehensive leave program. Please click the following link for detailed information: www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/benefits

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Please describe your experience conducting risk and/or release evaluations. What testing measures do you prefer to employ during the evaluation process, and what do you consider to be fundamental aspects of the evaluation process?

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Please describe your supervisory experience.

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Please describe your experience conducting forensic evaluations. What types have you conducted and in what setting(s)?

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If you are a current or former State of Colorado employee, please list your employee number (starts with 997...). Failure to provide this requested information may render your application incomplete, and you may no longer be considered for the position.

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Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application. In the space below, please provide an explanation as to why the prior termination or resignation should NOT disqualify your application from the current position.

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