About This Role
Working as a Mental Health Counselor involves providing professional mental health services to inmates, including evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and clinical interventions. This position plays a crucial role in assuring accurate mental health needs levels, providing therapy, and ensuring continuity of care for inmates.
Responsibilities
- Provide professional mental health services to inmates, including formal and informal mental health evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and clinical interventions
- Assure accurate Information System mental health needs levels, including Psychiatric and Developmental Disability needs level codes
- Provide group, brief, and individual therapy, and crisis intervention, including participation in 24-hour Mental Health On-Call Rotation
- Assure both emergency and non-emergency transfer for inmates experiencing acute mental health needs
- Provide clinical direction to non-clinical staff in mental health care and treatment of inmates
- Assure continuity of care for inmates by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation for receiving units, facilities, or agencies
- Document both handwritten and electronically in an accurate and timely manner to provide comprehensive inmate mental health records
- Monitor inmate treatment and listen to inmate concerns and provide counseling and direction
- Promote and be accountable for the safety and security of the clinical and correctional environment through conscientious observations and sensitive item contraband control
- Inform supervisor of any violations of safety and security through the report writing process
- Attend training programs as assigned, including self-defense course to ensure self-protection skills
Benefits
- Distinctive career advancement opportunities throughout the state system
- Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan plus 401K and 457 plans
- Member Contribution Rates
- Correctional Officers I-IV qualify as "Safety Officers" and are eligible for increased PERA benefits
- Medical and dental health plans
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Paid life insurance
- 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
- Wellness program, tuition reimbursement, training opportunities and more
Important Details
- This posting may be used to fill future vacancies at this location
- Schedule: 24-hour Mental Health On-Call Rotation
About the Company
The State of Colorado offers career opportunities that make a difference and build greater public confidence in good government. Its professionals strive to support state government and the citizens of Colorado.
