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PSYCHOLOGIST I (Forensic)

Salary

$84,780.00 - $119,064.00 Annually

Location

Denver, CO

Job Type

Full Time

Job Number

IIC 05459 5/5/2025

Department

Colorado Department of Human Services

Division

OBH - CMHIFL

Opening Date

05/05/2025

Closing Date

5/26/2025 11:59 PM Mountain

FLSA

Determined by Position

Type of Announcement

This position is open only to Colorado state residents.

Primary Physical Work Address

Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan 3520 West Oxford Ave, Denver, CO 80236

Hiring Pay Rate

Min: 7065 Max 9922

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

Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for an excellent benefits package! Please see the Supplemental Information section below for details!

This position is open only to Colorado Residents

$14,000 Sign On Incentive

About CMHHFL :

The Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan (CMHH-FL) is one of two state hospitals serving our community. The vision of CMHHFL is to provide the highest quality mental health services to persons with complex, serious, and persistent mental illness within the resources available. Our mission is to support those individuals in achieving their recovery goals and reaching their full potential. CMHH-FL provides inpatient treatment to adult patients, generally between the ages of 18-59. The hospital has 138 adult inpatient beds and over six treatment milieus serving civil and forensic individuals. Medical services, occupational therapy, neuropsychological-rehabilitation services, and trauma-informed care services are available for all patients throughout the hospital.

Through our core values listed below, CMHH-FL staff is committed to:

+ Individual dignity and respect

+ Person-centered, evidence-based care

+ Trauma-informed recovery

+ Multidisciplinary collaboration

+ Diversity and inclusion

+ Strong family and community partnerships

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Description of Job

About the Position

The Psychologist I position works in the 24-hour State psychiatric hospital with individuals voluntarily and involuntarily committed for treatment. Patients receiving treatment at CMHH-FL have severe and persistent mental illness and may have traumatic brain injury, trauma disorders, and other complex dynamics. Each multidisciplinary treatment team includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, addiction specialists, occupational therapists, recreation therapists, creative arts therapists, nurses, physicians, and mental health clinicians. In addition, the hospital offers dietary, peer, and chaplain services.

The psychologist conducts comprehensive psychological testing and consults with all treatment teams regarding appropriate referrals and testing results. In addition, the Psychologist is responsible for providing psychological expertise to the treatment teams, all hospital departments, and external stakeholders. The Psychologist regularly documents in the electronic health record and contributes to training doctoral externs and predoctoral interns through various psychological seminars, supervision, co-facilitation, and mentoring. The Psychologist actively contributes to hospital-wide events, in-service training, and program development. Lastly, the Psychologist is responsible for completing certification evaluations and court testimony.

Duties in this position include:

Therapeutic and Behavioral Intervention:

+ Responsible for individual therapy, group therapy, and family therapy. Individual and family therapy are provided as needed, which is determined in the treatment plan meetings and collaboration with the treatment team.

+ Group therapy is offered to all patients, and group assignments shall be determined by clinical and individualized need, which the Psychologist guides.

+ Responsible for developing group materials appropriate for patient-specific needs and leading group therapy sessions. Individuals requiring a more detailed treatment approach or tailored intervention for specific behaviors.

+ Develops individualized behavior plans and programs and will provide psychoeducation and training to all milieu staff for successful implementation.

+ Responsible for monitoring the plan, documenting in the electronic health record, providing the patient and the treatment team with feedback, and modifying as needed.

Treatment Planning and Clinical Consultation:

+ Participates in treatment planning and actively contributes to formulating patient-specific goals.

+ Provides clinical guidance and consultation regarding effective and appropriate clinical goals, measurability, progress, and/or stagnation. To effectively do so, the Psychologist reviews documentation and medical records, gathers behavioral observations, evaluates, assesses, and synthesizes information.

+ In addition to weekly and/or monthly treatment plan meetings, the Psychologist actively participates in additional team consultation sessions, family meetings, discharge planning, and cross-team consultation meetings.

+ Responsible for creating discipline-specific treatment goals, documenting progress, and updating as needed in the electronic health record (i.e., individual therapy, specific group therapy modalities, behavioral plans, etc.).

+ Provides clinical leadership to the treatment teams and consults with multidisciplinary staff across the hospital.

+ At times, this position may consult with external stakeholders regarding treatment needs and recommendations to support continuity of care. Examples include consultation with CMHH-FL staff, meetings with the patients’ family, liaison with mental health centers, attorneys, and district and/or probate courts.

Evaluation for Civil Commitment:

+ Reviews the legal status of all patients admitted to CMHH-FL and evaluates their mental status and condition to determine whether they can be released, can cooperate with voluntary inpatient treatment, or need to be certified pursuant to Colorado Mental Health Statutes (CRS 27-65-101 et seq.) for involuntary treatment.

+ Communicates findings to the Court by letters, petitions, and expert-witness testimony as needed.

Psychological Screening and Assessment:

+ Responsible for performing Psychological Assessments to include standardized suicide risk assessment measures, intellectual testing, adaptive abilities, personality measures, comprehensive psychodiagnostics batteries, competency related skills, and a variety of screening measures.

+ Assists the treatment team in determining whether formal psychological assessment may assist treatment planning, diagnosis, and disposition plans, and chooses appropriate assessment procedures.

+ Administers all testing measures, completes a written report, submits documentation in the electronic health record, and communicates the results and recommendations to the treatment team and milieu staff.

Student Training and Student Supervision:

+ CMHH-FL has a long-standing predoctoral internship program and also trains predoctoral psychology externship students. Currently CMHH-FL is partnered with the University of Denver Consortium as a predoctoral internship training location. The Psychology Department is responsible for interviewing and selecting predoctoral extern and intern level students.

+ Contributes to training opportunities through externship and internship-level didactic curriculum and supervision.

Other Duties as Assigned:

+ Other duties as assigned include hospital-wide ad hoc activities, milieu support, etc.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Education/Licensure/Certification/Experience:

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

Psychologist Examiners

AND

One (1) year of experience as a licensed psychologist or permitted psychologist

candidate.

No Substitutions

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Previous or current State Experience

+ Experience with performance validity measures, Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Syndromes (RBANS), Wechsler Adult Scales (WAIS, WASI), and personality measures

+ Knowledge about the Colorado Competency statute

+ Psychology training (doctorate in psychology field and license as outlined below), inpatient and/or forensic experience

Preferred Competencies:

+ Prior e xperience completing comprehensive psychological assessment; clinical experience with inpatient, forensic, or SPMI populations

Conditions of Employment:

+ Due to the juvenile population served at the MHI facilities, incumbents of this position must be at least 21 years of age

+ A pre-employment criminal background check will be conducted as part of the selection process as this position is deemed to have direct contact with vulnerable persons. Felony convictions, convictions of crimes of moral turpitude, or convictions of misdemeanors related to job duties may disqualify you from being considered for this position. Should your background check reveal any charges or convictions, it is your responsibility to provide the CDHS Background Unit with an official disposition of any charges. Additionally, you will be required to take a drug screen.

+ A Tuberculosis Test (TB) will be required upon hire, and other vaccines as required by the State of Colorado.

+ Current/Valid and unrestricted US driver's license.

+ May be exposed to bodily fluids or caustic chemicals.

+ Travel: In-state travel required. May travel to attend training, court hearings, patients to appointments, and other related activities.

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

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]

Sign-On Incentive:

The $14,000 sign-on incentive will be provided in three payments: within two pay cycles of when the new employee starts at CDHS, 180-day anniversary, and 270-day anniversary with CDHS. Must be currently employed at the date of the anniversary to receive the next installment. If you are separated from the state for any reason prior to the installment date, you will not be eligible to receive it.

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 MotivateMe

+ 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.

~THE STATE OF COLORADO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER~ (https://cdhs.colorado.gov/information-for-job-applicants#eoe)

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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