Social Worker

Mental Health ClinicianThis position provides mental health care to a special population of inmates housed in the Colorado Department of Corrections with mental illness, intellectual and developmental disabilities and high risk for suicide and self injury. Responsibilities include developing mental health treatment plans, providing individual and group therapy, performing routine mental health assessments and interviews, updating diagnosis and psychiatric needs levels, referring inmates to psychology for more complex psychological assessment, providing information to psychiatry, participating in a 24 hour on call system, assuring both emergency and non-emergency transfer for inmates experiencing acute mental health crisis, rendering clinical direction to non-clinical staff in mental health care and treatment of inmates, and assuring continuity of care for inmates by making appropriate referral and providing necessary information and documentation for transition to receiving units, facilities, or agencies.