Clinical Supervisor - Jail-Based Evaluation and Restoration - Psychologist II

Salary : $115,932.00 - $144,420.00 Annually
Location : Denver, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: IIB 06148 11/9/2026
Department: Colorado Department of Human Services
Division: OBH (Office of Behavioral Health)
Opening Date: 11/09/2026
Closing Date: 11/23/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Primary Physical Work Address: 3824 W Princeton Circle Denver 80236
FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information:
Type of Announcement: A residency waiver has been granted for this announcement. Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.
How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

Department Information
Located within the Colorado Department of Human Services, Civil and Forensic Mental Health (CFMH) is responsible for policy development, service provision and coordination, program monitoring and evaluation, and administrative oversight for the public behavioral health system. CFMH funds, supports, and monitors numerous mental health and substance abuse community programs and providers. CFMH also operates the Colorado Mental Health Hospitals at Fort Logan and Pueblo, the Mental Health Transitional Living Homes, and the Forensic Services Division. CFMH executes the State's federal responsibilities as the State Mental Health Authority and the State Substance Abuse Authority to administer federal block grant funds for mental health and substance abuse.
The Forensic Services Division is responsible for six departments, including Forensic Community-Based Services (FCBS), Jail-Based Evaluation and Restoration (JBR), Outpatient Restoration (OPR), the Forensic Support Team (FST), the Court Services Department, and the Operations Department. Our teams work within various settings, including community agencies, jails, courts, and hospitals. The locations can include locked units and secure facilities, and our clients may at times be unpredictable due to their mental health needs. Our team is required to make critical decisions in dynamic and fast-paced environments to ensure a high level of accountability for patient care. Our staff are required to maintain updated skills, knowledge, abilities, and competencies necessary to the position through continuing education, clinical supervision, literature review, and discipline and team development. This position may require traveling throughout Colorado to meet the needs of the department. The JBR Program exists to serve as the only program to provide jail-based competency restoration services for individuals found incompetent to proceed by the courts and ordered to undergo restoration treatment for the State of Colorado. In addition, the JBR department provides oversight to contracted private hospital programs. The program
additionally provides treatment to those individuals ordered by the courts to undergo an initial evaluation of competency and mental condition/sanity evaluations. The JBR Program serves as the State expert on restoration and competency in a jail-based setting and collaborates with numerous other entities and governmental agencies to ensure
best practices in admissions across the State, best practices in competency restoration treatment, and continuity of care and follow up care for individuals discharging from the program. The JBR program oversees all contracts associated with these programs, coordinates admissions, conducts program audits, establishes best practices, and engages in site visits.
Description of Job
Weekly Hybrid Working Arrangements

Minimum 2 days In Office and/or site and Maximum 3 days Remote Work;

This position will comply with the Forensics Services Department's current

working arrangements.

Please note: Work arrangements are subject to change at any time.
The position serves as the Department's psychological expert and clinical supervisor and provides direct oversight and monitoring of the 110-bed program located at Peak View Behavioral Health, the 78-bed restoration program located at the Arapahoe County Detention Facility, and the 18-bed restoration program located in Denver County. A
primary role of this position is to serve as the clinical subject matter expert in Colorado Statute for competence to stand trial and civil commitment, psychiatric disorders, inpatient psychiatric and restoration treatment, psychological evaluation and interpretation of various assessments, and jail-based restoration treatment. This position is responsible for interpreting and maintaining expertise in psychological assessments in order to guide treatment and consultation regarding competency to stand trial, violence risk, diagnostic differentiation, patient disposition, and civil commitment. The Supervisor serves as the clinical expert in the implementation of new legislative initiatives on behalf of this Department and in partnership with the Director. In order to maintain expertise, this position may conduct forensic examinations on behalf of the Department, as required. This position provides clinical supervision and consultation to the department's three (3) Health Professionals and two (2) Social Work positions, as well as any student trainees. This position regularly engages in site visits across all department programs to ensure restoration best practices are being utilized, serves as a clinical consultant, develops and conducts various training, and assesses patient treatment needs. The supervisor maintains decision-making authority for program admissions, patient placement, and patient movement based on clinical knowledge, legal demands, and program variables. This position will also lead on-call rotations and responsibilities to provide after-hours support and crisis management to the programs. Along with the Director, this position will lead program auditing, identify deficiencies, provide recommendations, and determine action plan needs to ensure fidelity to the contractual agreement and best practices within service provision. This position assists with coordination of programmatic functions with various entities (e.g., communicating changes in patient treatment needs to inform patient movement to different treatment programs/level of care), tracks data that corresponds to records and movement, and engages in daily communications with various agencies and departments. This position collaborates with the Director in gathering data to report to CFMH and CDHS management about the program's performance and compliance with policies
and procedures. This position collaborates with the department in writing departmental policy and procedure and develops process improvements to increase efficiency. This position is critical to the organization and functioning of the Jail Based Restoration department and the ongoing care of patients in our custody.

Other duties include:
Clinical Determinations and Consultation:

• Relies upon psychological expertise and knowledge in severe and persistent mental illness, administration and interpretation of psychological assessment, behavioral interventions, competency restoration, civil commitment, treatment planning, and violence risk in order to use established criteria to determine admissions,
  transfers, and discharges to and from all departmental programs.
• Must apply their knowledge to established practices in order to interpret information and reach decisions, as well as provide clinical recommendations to staff and treatment team members. In order to maintain expertise and relevant knowledge, this position may conduct a variety of forensic evaluations, as needed, for the Department.
• Analyzes information including clinical records, psychological assessments, competency evaluations, and judicial outcomes in order to make clinical decisions regarding patient treatment needs at all points in their care with the Department.
• Responds quickly to the changing needs of a patient's placement or the program and is frequently required to make decisions based on specialized knowledge. This includes determining the level of urgency for referrals for transfer to and from the State hospitals. In doing so, this position must communicate with internal and external stakeholders often regarding all patient placement and transfer decisions in a manner that makes clinical language understandable to lay persons.
• Collaborates with the various stakeholders, including state psychiatric facilities, county jails, agents of the courts, contractors, FSDV programs, CMHHIP admissions program, CMHHIP legal-medical records, and CMHHIP DPS transport to ensure essential information is communicated as needed for admissions, discharges, and continuity of care.
• Collaborates and directs the Program Assistant with aspects of communication that may overlap and/or correlate with one another.
• Serves as the Department's primary clinical consultant, in order to offer treatment and intervention guidance to our program's treatment staff. This involves providing education, clinical expertise, psycholegal interpretation, behavioral interventions, compensatory treatment strategies, and treatment planning
  recommendations.

Supervision and Clinical Oversight:

• Serves as the direct supervisor for five (5) full-time staff in the Department within the social work and health professional job classification series. Supervisory duties include the provision of clinical and administrative supervision, professional development, employee performance evaluations, plans, and disciplinary actions, staff
  scheduling, position descriptions, recruitment, retention, interviewing and hiring, onboarding and training, and ensuring ongoing quality standards are achieved.
• Responsible for the hybrid work arrangements and workflow assignment for all supervisees, ensuring quality standards are met, and productivity is maintained through
  development and implementation of efficient processes and systems.
• Participates in on-call responsibilities during weekends and evenings for situations that require an immediate response, including crisis management and intervention guidance.

Program Implementation, Training, and Contractor Performance:

• Guides how various programs implement mental health treatment and competency restoration education. It also serves as a contract monitor for program performance using program and individual client data, site visits, inpatient and jail-based best practices, contracts, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), The Joint Commission (TJC), and The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) requirements, laws, clinical expertise, and audits to assess contractor performance.
• Must recognize treatment deficiencies and guide the development of the necessary mechanisms to support patient care and contractor performance.
• Assists with data collection, tracking, analyzing, and interpreting.
• Assists with reporting to CFMH and CDHS management about the program's performance and compliance with policies and procedures and data reporting.
• Expected to create and provide ongoing training to various programs and internal staff based on identified needs, changes in law, changes in best practices, and field innovations in psychological practices.
• May be called upon to represent the Division in various presentations regarding mental health programming and restoration education as well. Duties may require commuting to various locations for training, supervision, evaluation, meetings, and stakeholder engagements.

Policy, Procedure, Research, and Data Tracking:

• Plays an important role in data collection, interpretation, application, and reporting in various formats to assess programmatic trends, needs, strengths, and weaknesses.
• Collaborates with the Director in gathering data to report to CFMH and CDHS management about the programs' performance and compliance with policies and procedures.
• Collaborates with the department in writing departmental policy and procedure and develops process improvement to increase efficiency and ensures departmental staff adhere to approved practices.
• Expected to maintain knowledge of current national practices, psychological field practices, innovative programming, and general national trends associated with inpatient psychiatric programming and competency restoration in both the jail based and inpatient settings. This may also include CMS, TJC, CDPHE, and other regulatory authorities.

Other Duties As Assigned:

• Any other duties that may arise and need to be completed by this position that aren't covered in the above duty
  statements.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
Education/Licensure/Certification/Experience:

Current, valid licensure as a Psychologist from the Colorado State Board of Psychologist Examiners

Three (3) years of experience as a licensed psychologist or permitted psychologist candidate, two of which must have been at the level of a fully operating psychologist

No Substitutions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with in-custody, inpatient psychiatric treatment, or community-based treatment with the SPMI population
• Experience providing competency restoration treatment
• Experience providing clinical supervision to multidisciplinary behavioral health professionals
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