Psychologist Neuropsychologist Mental Health Hospital at Fort Logan

Department Information

This position has a residency waiver and will be accepting applications from residents and non‑residents of Colorado. This announcement is open to potential candidates who are legal residents of the United States. All legal residents of the United States are eligible to apply and compete. If appointed to a position, applicants from outside of Colorado will be required to relocate to Colorado prior to their start date, at their own expense.

The Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan (CMHH‑FL) is one of two state hospitals serving our community. The vision of CMHHFL 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.

CMHH‑FL provides inpatient treatment to adult patients, generally between the ages of 18‑59. The hospital 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, CMHH‑FL 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

This position is responsible for the provision of neuropsychological evaluation, treatment intervention, and consultation. The Neuropsychologist provides services across all units within the hospital and partners with all treatment teams. This position is responsible for identifying those that may be in need of neuropsychological evaluation and/or intervention, as well as responding to team referrals. The Neuropsychologist completes comprehensive neuropsychological reports and documents regularly in the hospital’s electronic health record system.

In addition, this position builds relationships with community stakeholders and contributes to identifying patient disposition needs. The Neuropsychologist functions as part of the psychology department and regularly contributes to hospital‑wide events, development of new trainings, contribution to existing trainings, facilitation of in‑service training, and program development.

• Evaluates the neuropsychological condition of patients throughout the hospital utilizing specialized tests and interview data, and provides neuropsychological diagnosis and treatment recommendations to referring psychiatrists/teams via written Neuropsychological Assessment and Reports.

• Determines the type and nature of individual and group therapy or rehabilitation services needed to facilitate recovery.
• Decides the frequency and content of individual and group cognitive rehabilitation programming offered throughout the hospital.
• Facilitates groups and supervises trainee facilitation of Strong Minds groups on all teams.

• Consults with Teams on treatment plans via case conferences and formal treatment plan review meetings, and helps design therapy programs as appropriate to patient based on cognitive and neuropsychological deficits.

• Supervises neuropsychological assessment activities of post‑doctoral fellow, pre‑doctoral interns, and doctoral psychology students, and teaches seminars on neuropsychology attended by interns and staff members.
• Supports APA‑accredited predoctoral internship program in accordance with APA standards by providing supervision, teaching seminars, and being involved in intern selection and quality improvement.
• Assumes an active role in the Psychology Discipline to include such activities as attending regular discipline meetings, representing the discipline in hospital‑wide committees, and other duties as assigned.
• Supervises neuropsychological assessment activities of pre‑doctoral interns and doctoral psychology students (if…