Primary Therapist - Outpatient Services - SW​/C II

Colorado Department of Human Services

Denver, CO

Full Time

Monday
- Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. you are required to work at your assigned work location during your scheduled work times.

Current Colorado residents only.

Civil and Forensic Mental Health Services (CFMH) operates Colorado’s two mental health hospitals, the Forensic Services Division, the Division of Mental Health Transitional Living, and now the Outpatient Services Division. The office provides a continuum of mental health care for both Civil and Forensic clients. Civil clients are individuals who are committed by a civil court into the care of the Colorado Department of Human Services because they have serious and persistent mental health conditions.

Forensic clients include those who are charged with a crime and have a mental or developmental disability that prevents them from assisting in their own defense or rationally understanding the criminal court proceedings, and those who have been charged with a crime but found not guilty by reason of insanity. CFMH works across the legal system to provide evaluations, treatment and case management for these clients.

Outpatient Services is the newest part of this continuum, working to support clients stepping down or being diverted from hospitals and jails, and giving them the care they need in the community.

• Individual dignity and respect
• Person-centered, evidence-based care
• Multidisciplinary collaboration
• Diversity and inclusion
• Strong family and community partnerships

• Within scope of practice, complete a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment of patients being admitted for outpatient psychiatric treatment.
• Interview the patient assuring that assessment data is as reliable as possible, that the patient is engaged in a supportive and educative manner, that confidentiality is maximized, and that symptoms and behaviors are thoroughly evaluated and handled in a sensitive and safe manner.
• Contact/engage parents/ family members, significant others, guardians, and referring agency personnel to interview and obtain relevant collateral and supporting information to enhance the understanding and dynamics of the patient’s situation.
• Complete the Colorado Client Assessment Record (CCAR) and the bio-psychosocial component of the Clinic’s other documentation.
• Additionally complete re-assessments of the patient’s situation and response to treatment as frequently as daily and documents patient progress in progress notes, weekly progress notes, and treatment plan reviews.
• Collaborate with and inform team members of relevant assessment information.
• Puts specific emphasis upon collaboration with and direction of treatment team staff regarding assessment information to address unique cases and cases that necessitates a reduction of risk issues related to hospital objectives including the use of seclusion and restraint, patient assault, and elopement.

• Conduct individual, group, and family therapy sessions using counseling and/or social work theories and concepts relevant to the needs and pathology of patients and their families, considering their age, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, and sexual orientation consideration to affect behavioral change and the reduction of symptoms in the patient and the family.
• Interpret treatment issues, problems, expectations, and changes in behavior for patients and their families. Assess and document the effectiveness of specific interventions towards meeting the goals and objectives of treatment.
• Guides milieu staff by modeling patient interventions, recommending practice and patient “homework” assignments that may be…