Mental Health Clinician II - Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan; South Denver

About Fort Logan

Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan (CMHHFL) 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 health illnesses within the resources available. Our mission is to support those individuals in achieving their recovery goals and reaching their full potential.

CMHHFL provides inpatient treatment to adult patients, generally between the ages of 18-49. The hospital has 94 adult inpatient beds, and over four treatment units and opened an additional 44 beds (two units) in December 2022, with one unit currently occupied, and the other unit awaiting occupancy. These two forensic units will be dedicated to providing psychiatric stabilization and restoration treatment to individuals who opined incompetent to proceed as a result of their mental illness.

Medical services, occupational therapy, neuropsychological rehabilitation services, and trauma-informed care services are available for all patients throughout the hospital.

Each treatment unit provides psychiatric treatment services to adult clients through the use of a Milieu Treatment Program based on models of milieu therapy and group therapy. The focus of treatment is ongoing assessment and interventions designed to assist individual clients to resolve the specific problems that brought them to the hospital and to return them to the least restrictive environment in the community.

Approaches are strength-based, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented enabling patients to learn more effective coping and living skills in order to function more effectively in the community upon discharge from the hospital. The psychiatric care and treatment modalities include milieu management, group therapy, activity therapy, health education and medication management with the goal of providing a consistent and safe environment for clients and to assist them with the amelioration of presenting problems and symptoms and improve problem solving and coping skills.

• Establish a therapeutic relationship with patients and provide safe and effective patient care.
• Utilize psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery principles and techniques in all aspects of duties.
• Assist with psychiatric nursing care of mentally ill patients under supervision of a registered nurse.
• Observe, report, and document patient behavior, physical condition, and reactions to medications and treatment.
• Participate in designing and implementing patient treatment plans.
• Monitor and intervene to ensure a safe and therapeutic patient milieu.
• Provide immediate crisis intervention when indicated.

Four (4) years of relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned to this position.

• 1+ years knowledge and experience as a Mental Health Care Clinician I at a State of Colorado Mental Health Institute.
• 1+ years professional inpatient mental-health-care experience in a psychiatric locked/secure setting.
• Experience developing and running treatment groups.
• Knowledge and experience with Trauma Informed Care and Recovery Principles.
• Outpatient mental health experience running groups, case management, etc.
• College or university education in nursing, psychology, sociology, human services, or education.

• Full Background – Name check, TRAILS, and Fingerprinting.
• Shift Work – Days, evenings, or nights.
• Essential Services Designation – Required to report without delay or interruption to provide essential or emergency services.
• Driver's License.
• Must be at least 21 years of age or older.

The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer.