Clinical Therapist I- Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Pueblo.

Department Information

This position is open only to Colorado state residents.

Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.

About Colorado Mental Health Hospital In Pueblo

Provide skilled intensive psychiatric treatment services to patients with mental illnesses with mixed diagnoses, who need crisis intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation. To develop and implement therapy techniques and practices utilizing known and established theoretical concepts to the adolescent, geriatric, and adult psychiatric populations that are

appropriate to the individual patient’s level of functioning. Such therapeutic services are designed to facilitate psychological, physical, social, cognitive, leisure, and daily living skills through a comprehensive rehabilitative, leisure education, and experiential recreation participation model while meeting therapeutic recreation standards of practice as well as regulatory compliance with JCAHO, CMS, and CMHHIP policy and procedure.

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Description Of Job

About the Position:

Assessment And Plan Of Care

The position coordinates with a multidisciplinary team to design services that will address the patients’ Plan Of Care and align with the population, treatment program model, Recovery philosophy, and Trauma Informed Care. Services include assessments that formulate individual patient goals, therapeutic interventions to meet patient needs that foster choices, progress, and function, and documenting and recording pertinent data related to patient progress, services, safety, quality, and statistical data within the organization. Provide a safe and natural environment to assist in developing skills and behaviors in preparation for discharge. Demonstrate knowledge, skill, and duties related to safety and security, i.e. continuous awareness, security checks, inventory of supplies, and area searches, etc. Retains qualifications/certifications in first aid, CPR, MANDT, and Verbal De-escalation. Duties in the position include:

• Performs assessments by gathering information, interviewing patients, and making treatment recommendations in the functional modality areas of physical, social, leisure, cognitive, psychological, and daily living needs and skills. Participates as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team in developing the patient Treatment Plan formulation and Reviews to help formulate long-and short-range goals
• Provide specific examples of regular, ongoing decisions made by this position related to this duty
• Evaluate patients and determine what individual needs are to be met through Therapy Services on an ongoing basis, with collaboration from a CTRS (Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist). The assessment will determine goals and objectives with recommendations for groups, frequency, modality
  
  

And Duration, With Collaboration From a CTRS.Program Design

• Helps design the Therapy services plan for the assigned population to include modalities of leisure education, physical, cognitive, psychological, and daily living skills designed to foster independent and leisure choices and
  
  

Functioning In Patient ParticipationImplementation Of Services

• Implements a needs-specific Therapy service delivery program by conducting groups, 1:1s, including counseling, evaluation, education, and recreation participation for the population, which may include a locked secured facility
• Modifications/accommodations are made to provide services, which enable patients at varying functional levels to fully participate
• Provide a safe and secure environment at all times
  
  

Documentation and Evaluation:

• Provide documentation in accordance with hospital and Department policies and procedures. Documentation
• includes patient specific information as well as overall programmatic documentation relating to problems, objectives, and interventions. Patient’s progress or lack thereof as it correlates to individualized treatment goals is reflected in documentation
• Treatment is reviewed, changed, modified or terminated based on patient response or significant change in the patient’s functioning
  
  

Other Duties as Assigned:

• Attend monthly department, area, and committee meetings, program meetings, team meetings, and other meetings as assigned
• Attend all in-service and training as mandated by CMHHIP and educational training necessary to maintain any professional certifications and competencies
• Evaluate the environment for safety/security risks and patient behaviors to help provide a Therapy service delivery system that maintains the safety of all patients and staff, by adhering to hospital security policies, including escorting clients to and from Therapy groups and areas. Utilize de-escalating and MANDT techniques from training
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Experience Only

Four (4) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position (i.e. working in music, art, or dance/ movement therapy field, a mental health treatment facility, or providing these services to an adult population .)

OR

Education And Experience

A combination of related education and/or relevant experience in an occupation

related to the work assigned to this position equal to four (4) years.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in State Service
  
  

Conditions of Employment:

• Full background check
• Must possess a current, valid driver's license
• Essential Services Designation – Required to report without delay or interruption to provide essential or emergency services to ensure health, safety, and welfare.
• Shift Work – May be required to work evenings and/or weekends as needed
• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application and provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination 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 acknowledgment 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

The Assessment Process

For additional recruiting questions, please contact [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 (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 ADAAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at [email protected] or call 1-800-929-0791.

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