Benefits:
- Hybrid work arrangements
- Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan www.copera.org plus 401(k) and 457 plans
- Eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
- Medical and dental health plans
- Employer supplemented Health Savings Account
- Paid life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
- BenefitHub state employee discount program
- Employee Wellness program MotivateMe
- Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more
Minimum qualifications:
- Current, valid licensure as a Psychologist from the Colorado State Board of Psychologist Examiners
- One year of experience as a licensed psychologist or permitted psychologist candidate.
Responsibilities:
- This position completes the equivalent of 12 court ordered evaluations for competency or restoration of competency per month and a minimum of 6 assigned evaluations will be competency evaluations in the jail.
- This position completes a written report detailing their opinion regarding competency or sanity/mental condition, and if their opinion is incompetent an explanation of barriers to competency, clearly detailed in their report. Written reports also include information and opinions specified in C.R.S 16-8.5 and the Consent Decree.
- This position may be subpoenaed to testify to provide the court with information regarding their opinion.
- Evaluations may occur in various settings including hospitals, jails, or in the community and this position responds to the location specified in the court order.
- This position requests collateral information as needed to inform their opinion and seeks consultation from their supervisor or colleagues on difficult, complex, or ambiguous cases.
- Develop and deliver to courts, via expert testimony, professional opinion regarding the legal question of competency, restoration, and sanity mental condition.
- This position is able to detail information utilized to inform their opinion, remains objective and neutral provides testimony regarding opinion to a legal question in the court order, and explains the basis for any clinical (i.e. diagnosis, prognosis) and forensic opinions.
- This position is able to testify regarding the assessment process, including instruments utilized during evaluation and collateral sources requested to inform opinion.
Job description:
This position exists to perform and ensure the quality and timely completion of court-ordered evaluations and restoration reports required by Colorado courts. The evaluator is authorized to represent the Department in communication with Judges and Courts directly. A forensic evaluator must be a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist by Colorado Statute. This position performs competency evaluations, restoration to legal competency evaluations, and sanity/mental condition evaluations (if the evaluator meets qualifications per statute) and provides a written report containing their opinion to the courts and both attorneys assigned to a defendant's case.
The Court Services Department responds to court-ordered referrals for the evaluation of competency, restoration, sanity, and mental condition. Court Services has offices located in both Denver and Pueblo on the Mental Health Hospital campuses.
The current schedule will be a hybrid work arrangement (remote work and report on-site 2 days per week) but may change without prior notification based on business demands. The candidate selected for this position will have the option of being located at either The Colorado Mental Health Hospital in Fort Logan (Denver) or Pueblo.
About the Colorado Department of Human Services:
CDHS connects people with assistance, resources and support for living independently in our state at every stage of their lives. We serve Coloradans through bold and innovative health and human services. Colorado has a state-supervised and county-administered human services system. Under this system, county departments are the main provider of direct services to Colorado’s families, children and adults. Many of CDHS's programs, benefits and services — such as food and heating assistance and child welfare — are administered by county human services departments.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $95,340.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Work setting:
Ability to Relocate:
- Denver, CO 80236: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Denver, CO 80236