CDOC Mental Health Counselor SW/C II (Canon City and Sterling)

About the role

This position provides professional mental health services to inmates, including formal and informal evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and clinical interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provides mental health services to inmates, including formal and informal evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and clinical interventions.
• Affirms accurate information system mental health needs levels, including psychiatric and developmental disability needs level codes.
• Participates in 24-hour Mental Health On-Call Rotation.
• Ensures continuity of care for inmates by making appropriate referrals and providing necessary information and documentation for receiving units, facilities, or agencies.
• Documents both handwritten and electronically in an accurate and timely manner to provide comprehensive inmate mental health records.
• Maintains safety and security of the clinical and correctional environment through conscientious observations and sensitive item contraband control.
• Informs supervisor of any violations of safety and security through the report writing process, attends training programs as assigned, including self-defense course to ensure self-protection skills.

Requirements

• Current, valid Colorado license or registered candidate as a Licensed Social Worker (LSW), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPCC), Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Candidate (LMFTC), or Addiction Counselor Candidate (ADDC).
• Experience providing mental health treatment in a correctional environment.

Qualifications

• Graduation with a master's or doctoral degree in a mental health field such as counseling, social work, marriage and family therapy, or psychology from a program accredited by CACREP, CSWE, AAMFT, or APA.
• License eligible as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, or Licensed Psychologist.

Skills

• Efficient in providing professional mental health or sex inmate treatment.
• Collaborative and effective in working across facility programs and with external agencies.
• Independent and capable of providing comprehensive clinical documentation.
• Capable of reading and comprehending the English language, communicating fluently in English both verbally and in writing, and creating accessible documents with plain language guidelines.
• Self-controlled, able to work in stressful, potentially violent situations, and maintain alertness, emotional stability, and mental resilience under pressure.
• Capable of maintaining required registration/permit/licensure as applicable to this assignment.
• Capable of working with a diverse population of inmates and providing professional mental health treatment as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

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.
• 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.

Pay

This position is compensated on a bi-weekly pay cycle.

Schedule

The exact schedule is not specified in the job posting.