• Job Description

  Req#: 4708760

  Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies. This position is open to current Colorado residents only. Opt-in below to receive text message updates on CDHS recruiting events! CDHSCareers

  Description of Job:

  About this Unit: This position is located within the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) which is responsible for policy development, service provision and coordination, program monitoring and evaluation, and administrative oversight for the public behavioral health system. The BHA funds, supports, and monitors numerous mental health and substance abuse community programs and providers; reviews and designates the State’s 27-65 providers; and licenses substance use disorder service providers, Controlled Substance Licensing, and Recovery Support Services Organizations. The BHA executes the State’s federal responsibilities as the State Mental Health Authority and the State Substance Abuse Authority to administer federal mental health and substance abuse block grant funds. Additionally, the BHA leads and promotes the State’s behavioral health priorities, ensures that behavioral health services respond to the changing needs of communities, monitors State and local data, and continuously evaluates State efforts. In collaboration with other state agencies, the BHA is accountable for the delivery of behavioral health services in Colorado. It bestows a streamlined and efficient government approach to support quality care while minimizing the burden on providers so that they can focus on service delivery. The BHA is responsible for behavioral health policy development and effective collaboration with cross-sector partners working in and around the behavioral health system and along the continuum from prevention to treatment and recovery. The BHA works in partnership with State agencies to reduce bureaucracy and fragmentation.

  About this Position:
  
  This position sits within the Quality and Standards Division within the BHA and reports directly to the Associate Director of Licensing and Designation. The Quality and Standards Division oversees the licensing and designation activities on behalf of the BHA and receives and investigates grievances submitted to the BHA through complaints and critical incident reporting.
  
  Summary of Duties:
  
  This position is responsible for the regulatory development and oversight of Forensic Community Based Services (FCBS), as described in CRS 16-18-101, et seq. FCBS are community-based behavioral health programs that provide treatment services for persons found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) who are under the authority of the State of Colorado to include inpatient, residential, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization and outpatient services. As Senior Authority, this position is responsible for developing policy that sets standards for how the Behavioral Health Administration, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, and the Colorado Department of Public Health implement FCBS. This Senior Authority is the sole position to set regulatory requirements for the implementation, training, and approval of FCBS across all treatment levels and the decisions made by this position impact the Comprehensive Safety Net Treatment Providers, Community Centered Boards and Regional Centers, Community Mental Health Clinics, the Colorado Department of Human Services, the Office of Civil and Forensic Mental Health, Colorado Mental Health Institute, and other approved providers. These services are related to both civil and criminal justice patients mandated to Substance Use Disorders treatment.

  The scope of this Senior Authority is to direct the BHA, and collateral state departments, on policy and regulatory development and promulgation, and to also serve as the point of contact in the direction of other state departments with overlapping authority. This also includes direct oversight of all licensed facilities serving individuals with remanded to addiction treatment services. The position is solely responsible for the development of regulation, ongoing compliance, and licensure for all of the facilities subject to forensic SUD treatment services. This position has direct oversight over all licensed facilities in the State with a programmatic and regulatory focus on addiction programs treating individuals mandated to treatment by the criminal justice system. This position directs those departments concerning substance use, targeting addiction and education in facilities across the state.

  • The position evaluates the quality of programming, practices, policies, and treatment services of providers of behavioral health care, specifically FCBS; ensures staff are qualified, supervised, and trained according to their individual needs and the needs of the population(s) served; assesses treatment planning; observes services and milieus; assesses treatment interventions utilized by providers, examines financial documentation to ensure stability of providers; and conducts interviews with staff, patients, and families to determine quality of care provided in licensed facilities.
  • This position conducts investigations of behavioral health complaints and critical incidents reported at licensed programs. This includes making record requests; reviewing records and documentation; facilitating meetings; conducting site visits; interviewing patients, agency staff, or other persons with knowledge; drafting of licensing reports or adverse action documents; and communicating/corresponding with those who submit grievances and licensed agencies.
  • Evaluate programs through the analysis of policies and procedures, behavior management and discipline, staff qualifications, medication administration, and plans for educational, community, and recreational activities, treatment and services to be provided, and site compliance and quality via inspections and interviews.
  • This position coordinates, provides education, oversees, and consults with community-based behavioral health programs and the Colorado Mental Health Institutes-Forensic Community Based Services Program (FCBS; a highly specialized forensic program for patients found not guilty by reason of insanity and placed on community placement and/or conditional release status).
  • Other duties as assigned.

  Experience Only:
  Eight (8) years of relevant experience in behavioral health, human services experience, working with a vulnerable population, quality assurance experience or an occupation related to the work assigned to this position

  OR

  Education and Experience:
  A combination of related education and/or relevant experience in behavioral health, human services experience, working with a vulnerable population, quality assurance experience, or in an occupation related to the work assigned equal to eight (8) years

  Substitutions:

  Additional appropriate experience will substitute on a year-for-year basis.

  Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

  Preferred Qualifications:

  • Quality assurance experience in a behavioral health setting.

  • Clinical experience in a treatment setting

  • Master's degree in a behavioral health-related field

  • Leadership experience

  
  Conditions of Employment:

  • Standard Background – Name check, TRAILS, CMS and JBITS
  • Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must (1) disclose that information on the application (2) provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position, (3) provide the employee number from the applicant’s prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination and failure to provide this information will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS

  
  

  APPEAL RIGHTS:
  
  If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.
  
  An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgment of the department’s action.
  
  For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.
  
  

  How to Apply

  The Assessment Process

  For additional recruiting questions, please contact Jamie.Smith@state.co.us

  Please Note: As part of the Comparative analysis process, candidates who meet the minimum qualifications will be required to take and pass on online skills assessment test. Notifications, as well as instructions, will be sent via email so applicants are encouraged to continually check for emails.

  About Us:

  If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high-quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

  *Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more

  information, go to https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/student-loan-forgiveness-programs .

  Our Values:

  We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans.

  Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.

  We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.

  Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.

  We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.

  Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.

  We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

  ADAA Accommodations: CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or performing essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at cdhs_ada@state.co.us or call 1-800-929-0791.

  ~THE STATE OF COLORADO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER~

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• About the company

  Colorado is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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