Health Professional III - Forensics Jail Based Restoration

Weekly Hybrid Working Arrangements

Minimum 2 days In Office and Maximum 3 days Remote Work

8:00 am - 5:00 PM

Please note: Work arrangements are subject to change at any time.

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 support and monitor 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 to administer 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 JBR Program exists to serve as the only program to provide jail-based competency restoration services for individuals found incompetent to proceed by the courts and ordered to undergo restoration treatment for the State of Colorado. The program additionally provides treatment to those individuals ordered by the courts to undergo an initial evaluation of competency and mental condition/sanity evaluations. The Jail-Based Restoration Program serves as the State expert on restoration and competency in a jail-based setting and collaborates with numerous other entities and governmental agencies to ensure best practices in admissions across the State best practices in competency restoration treatment and continuity of care and follow-up care for individuals discharging from the addition the Jail-Based Restoration department provides oversight to contracted private hospital programs. The team coordinates admissions for inpatient competency mental condition and sanity evaluations as appropriate to occur at one of the settings the team oversees.

Individuals in the program will be transferred to one of the departments designated treatment locations from other county jails in the State of Colorado as well as from the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo (CMHHIP) the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Ft. Logan (CMHHIFL) and other private hospital locations. Individuals requiring restoration to competency services assessed to need psychiatric hospitalization will be transferred to CMHHIP CMHHIFL or hospital-purchased beds.
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 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 require traveling throughout Colorado to meet the needs of the department.
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 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 require travel throughout Colorado to meet the needs of the department.

About the Position:
The position assists the director in the oversight and monitoring of the 60-bed competency-based evaluation and restoration program located at the Arapahoe County Detention Facility and the 18-bed competency-based evaluation and restoration program located at the Denver County addition this position will assist the director in the oversight and monitoring of the hospital-purchased beds at Peak View Behavioral Health. This position will respond to and screen referrals for all jail-based restoration programs and hospital-purchased restoration beds. The primary role of this position is to assess patient acuity level and the associated treatment needs as it relates to competency restoration and clinical treatment needs to determine which program they can admit or transfer to/from throughout the patients treatment. This position assists with gathering data to report to OCFMH and CDHS management about the programs performance and compliance with policies and procedures. This position assists with writing departmental policy and procedure and develops process improvement to increase efficiency. This position assists with audits of all programs to assess contractor performance in providing restoration services and contractor compliance with applicable policies and procedures. This position will engage in site visits across all jail-based programs and hospital-purchased beds to ensure restoration best practices are being utilized serve as a clinical consultant and assess patient treatment needs. This position will assist in the coordination of programmatic functions with various entities (e.g. communicating changes in patient treatment needs to inform patient movement to different treatment programs/level of care) track data that corresponds to records and movement and engage in daily communications with various agencies and departments. This position is critical to the organization and functioning of the Jail-Based Restoration department.
Duties in this position include:

Screen Referrals for Admission to Jail Based and Hospital-Purchased Beds:

• Gathers referrals from various sources include the referral table Admissions Program Director at CMHHIP CMHHIFL Court Services various county jails and various databases.
• Uses established criteria to determine admissions transfers and discharges to and from the jail-based restoration programs and hospital-purchased beds in a timely and efficient manner.
• Analyzes information including records and psychological assessments and use clinical judgment to make decisions regarding placement needs.
• Responds quickly to the changing needs of a patients placement or the program and frequently will be required to make decisions based on clinical judgment and expertise.
• Assess referrals for transfer to and from the State hospital and determine if those referrals are appropriate as well as the level of urgency of the transfer. These duties will serve the 96-bed jail-based restoration programs as well as hospital-purchased beds when needed.

• Serves as the contract monitor for program performance using program and individual client data site visits and audits to assess contractor performance.
• Promotes operational and administrative compliance with appropriate CDHS policies and procedures.
• Serves as the liaison between the contractors CDHS court services department CMHHIP CMHHIFL CDHS outpatient restoration department and the Director of Jail-Based Restoration.
• Participates in on-call responsibilities during weekends and evenings for situations that require an immediate response.
• Assists with data collection tracking analyzing and interpreting.
• Assists with reporting to OCFMH and CDHS management about the programs performance and compliance with policies and procedures.

• Collaborates with the various stakeholders including state psychiatric facilities county jails agents of the courts contractors court services employees CMHHIP admissions program CMHHIP legal-medical records and CMHIP DPS transport to ensure essential information is communicated as needed for admissions discharges and continuity of care.
• Assists the Program Assistant with aspects of communication that may overlap and/or correlate with one another.
• Assists with data tracking collection and reporting to CDHS and OCFMH.
• Contributes to and participate in presentations regarding jail-based restoration services and will remain informed of relevant competency evaluation and restoration trends and research.
• Imparts information regarding the research/strategies to the various contractors and serve as a consultant and liaison to the various treatment providers.

• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

Experience Only:

Six (6) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position

OR

A combination of related education (Psychology mental health criminal justice)and/or relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned equal to six (6) years.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous state employee
• Experience:Hospital residential group home outpatient settings
• Masters degree in Social Work Mental Health Counseling or related field
• License to practice as a Licensed Social Worker or Licensed Professional Counselor in the State of Colorado
• Experience working with individuals with mental health issues preference with the forensic population in an inpatient or outpatient setting and/or with individuals involved in competency restoration
• Previous experience with competency to stand trial and work with the severely and persistently mentally ill in acute settings.

• CBI name check and fingerprint check ICON Colorado court database Medicare fraud database Reference Checks Professional License verification (licensure requirements) Drug Screen PREA (Division of Youth Services) Trails check (direct contact with children) CAPS (direct contact with adults Mental Health Institutes Regional Centers Veterans Community Living Centers)
• Current/Valid and unrestricted US Drivers License
• Occasional rotating
• Travel:Frequent in-state travel between offices CMHIP CMHIFL and various detention facilities and
  hospitals
• Due to the juvenile population served at the MHH facilities incumbents of this position must be at least 21 years of age.
• May need to travel to other state locations transport patients to community appointments
• Travel This position may require travel to the various state-run MHTL Homes and to in-person meetings and/or team building activities.
• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must:

  • Disclose that information on the application.

  • Provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position.

  • Provide the employee number from the applicants 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.

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• Strong secure yet flexible retirement benefits including aPERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Planplus 401(k) and 457 plans

• Medical and dental health plans

• Employer supplementedHealth Savings Account

• Paid life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave

• BenefitHubstate employee discount program

• Employee Wellness program

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

• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

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