Salary: $32.69 Hourly
Location : Denver, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: IIC-07350 7/1/2025
Department: Colorado Department of Human Services
Division: OBH - CMHIFL
Opening Date: 07/01/2025
Closing Date: 7/15/2025 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Type of Announcement: This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
Primary Physical Work Address: 3520 W. Oxford Ave., Denver, CO 80236
Hiring Pay Rate: 32.69
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt; position is eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information:
Salary Note: Although the full salary range for this position is provided, appointments are typically made at or near the range minimum.
How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at 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.

Department Information
This position is open to Current Colorado Residents.
Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.
Most State of Colorado employees are eligible for a great benefits package! Please see the Supplemental Information section below for details!

About Fort Logan:
The Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan (CMHHIFL) is one of two state hospitals serving our community. The vision of CMHHIFL 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. CMHHIFL provides inpatient treatment to adult patients, generally between the ages of 18-59. The hospital currently 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, CMHHIFL 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.

About this Work Unit:
The Social Work II position works in the 24-hour State psychiatric hospital with individuals voluntarily and involuntarily committed to treatment (CMHHIFL has both civil and forensic units). Patients receiving treatment at CMHHIFL have severe and persistent mental illness and may have a traumatic brain injury, trauma disorders, and other complex dynamics. Each treatment team is multidisciplinary, including 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 social Work unit collaborates with patients, their families and/or support systems, and external stakeholders to plan, organize, and execute psychiatric treatment interventions and comprehensive aftercare plans with placement. Services include clinical assessment, treatment planning, individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, counseling, and education. This work unit serves as a liaison between the hospital and Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC's) and other governmental entities.
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Description of Job

About the Position:

The purpose of the Forensic Social Worker is to provide competency restoration treatment, individual therapy, group therapy, case management, and family therapy where appropriate. Individuals are referred from jail settings to the inpatient unit for court-ordered competency restoration to reach the goal of being found competent to stand trial. The Forensic Social Worker is a key member of the team in working towards this goal and will be expected to engage individuals on their caseload in both group and individual treatment as well as collaboration with outside stakeholders, such as court personnel and restoration support teams. The Social Worker completes comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments and reassessments, coordinates treatment planning for all patients, and regularly documents in the electronic health record. The Social work team is responsible for the coordination of discharge and comprehensive aftercare plans. The Social Worker actively contributes to hospital-wide events, in-service training, and program development.

As the Social Worker, I support the execution of the hospital's mission, vision, and values within the social work department and in collaboration with leadership. Social Worker I provides clinical service provision under the supervision of a supervising Social Worker IV. The Social worker I is responsible for ensuring their work product contributions are reviewed, complete, and timely. This includes treatment plans, documentation, assessments, and therapeutic interventions. Duties in this position include:
Case Management and Discharge Planning:
Under the direct supervision and guidance of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW):

• Responsible for their treatment caseload and is required to ensure all coordination of resources is completed on time. This may include ensuring submission of benefits, identification of appropriate benefits, guardianship needs, Momentum referrals, obtaining identification, securing a payee, applying for Medicaid/Medicare, and submitting referrals to potential discharge locations.
• Must work closely with various disciplines (such as Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology, Benefits Specialist, and Reintegration Specialist) as well as outside teams and stakeholders (such as the Forensic Support Team and various court entities).
• This position will reach out to individual support systems and arrange visits where appropriate.
• Often attends interagency staff meetings and is responsible for providing education to stakeholders regarding the Social Work Department and building relationships across various agencies.
• Collaborates with their supervisor to ensure accurately and efficiently navigate various systemic barriers as timely and accurate processes are completed. All efforts are geared toward supporting comprehensive and skilled assessment, psychiatric stabilization, competency restoration, and discharge from the hospital environment.

Assessment, Intervention, and Treatment Planning:
Under the direct supervision and guidance of a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW):

• Responsible for individual therapy, group therapy, and family therapy. Individual and family therapy is 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 needs.
• Responsible for developing group materials appropriate for patient-specific needs and leading group therapy sessions. When providing such treatment, the position relies upon social work theories and concepts relevant to the needs of the patient and their support systems to support symptom reduction. Interventions are individualized and tailored to issues related to age, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender identity, and sexuality.
• This position and the social work team communicate client treatment needs, barriers, expectations, and changes in behavior to the individual's support system throughout their admission cycle.
• Also provides psychoeducation to an individual's support system and community stakeholders to solicit understanding and participation in one's treatment process.
• Monitors the effectiveness of various treatment interventions tailored to reach specific treatment goals and objectives by leading the treatment planning meetings for all patients and ensuring goals are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-based (SMART) and per regulatory and licensing requirements, as well as best practices.
• Responsible for completing biopsychosocial assessments with all patients admitted for care. When completing any assessment, the social worker must ensure it is completed within designated timeframes, confidentiality is maximized, collateral information is obtained, and data received is as reliable as possible. Biopsychosocial assessments should include detailed information regarding their history and a comprehensive clinical formulation and discharge/treatment recommendations. Reassessments are completed as directed.
• Responsible for the completion of the Colorado Client Assessment Record (CCAR). The social work team regularly communicates such information to the treatment team and supports understanding.

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

Minimum Qualifications:
Four (4) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position.

OR

Education and Experience:

A combination of related education in Social Work and/or relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned, equal to four (4) years.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Inpatient Psychiatric Experience
• Forensic/ Competency Restoration Experience
• Experience working with adults with severe and persistent mental illness
• Previous State Employee

Conditions of Employment:

The successful candidate in this position must be willing and available to submit to the following conditions:

• Full Background: Name check, TRAILS, CAPS, Drug Screen and Fingerprinting
• Must possess a valid, unrestricted U.S. Driver's License
• Incumbents of this position must be at least 21 years of age.
• Must be able to use, handle, or be exposed to hazardous material, such as bodily fluids
• May be able to travel to attend training, court hearings, transport patients to appointments, and other related activities.
• TB testing, annual influenza, and other vaccines as required by the State of Colorado
• 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 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 (), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed ) 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 ; 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
The Assessment Process
For additional recruiting questions, please contact Jeru Marshall:
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 (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

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