Behavioral Health & Forensic Clinical Coordinator

James City County•Williamsburg, VA

11h

About The Position

The Behavioral Health and Forensic Clinical Coordinator oversees the Colonial Behavioral Health Docket, including referrals and screening, case staffing, treatment coordination, participant monitoring, court reporting, continuity of care, discharge planning, data collection, and grant reporting. The role collaborates with prosecutors, defense counsel, courts, community corrections, law enforcement, behavioral health providers, and community partners to support treatment, diversion, supervision, and case management for justice-involved individuals with behavioral health needs. The position leads development, implementation, and evaluation of efforts by the Court and Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office to provide mental health treatment in criminal cases as an alternative to incarceration. It performs advanced clinical, forensic behavioral health, and program coordination work for individuals with serious mental illness, co-occurring disorders, or other significant behavioral health needs. The coordinator conducts or arranges screenings and assessments, reviews clinical and criminal justice information, provides consultation, identifies service needs, and facilitates appropriate referrals, while working within the scope of professional licensure. The coordinator also develops responsive programs addressing criminal justice incidents driven by mental health instability, improves screening and referral protocols, supports quality improvement, administers grant requirements, and provides education and training to justice system partners. The position pays $78,747–$123,780 per year, depending on qualifications, and includes full-time County benefits.

Requirements

Master’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology, or a closely related field.
Five years of post-graduate clinical relevant experience.
Virginia professional clinical licensure appropriate to the duties, such as LCSW, LPC, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, or another appropriate Virginia-recognized clinical behavioral health license.
Ability to recognize behavioral health conditions requiring further assessment or intervention and distinguish clinical recommendations from legal determinations.
Ability to communicate complex clinical information clearly to attorneys, judges, law enforcement, corrections personnel, and other non-clinical professionals.

Nice To Haves

PhD preferred.
Experience working with justice-involved populations and forensic behavioral health.
Experience working with courts, prosecutors, defense counsel, corrections, or law enforcement.
Experience with behavioral health or other specialty court dockets.
Working knowledge of clinical behavioral health screening and assessment and treatment centers.
Expertise in forensic behavioral health principles, treatment coordination, and continuity-of-care principles.

Responsibilities

Oversee behavioral health screenings and clinical assessments within the scope of professional licensure.
Analyze clinical, criminal justice, treatment, and collateral information to identify behavioral health needs, risk factors, treatment needs, and circumstances requiring additional evaluation.
Identify indicators of serious mental illness, co-occurring mental health and substance-use disorders, crisis needs, and other significant behavioral health concerns.
Use clinical judgment to determine when psychiatric, psychological, competency, substance-use, crisis, or other specialized evaluations may be appropriate.
Provide behavioral health and clinical consultation to prosecutors concerning individuals whose criminal cases involve significant behavioral health concerns.
Promote awareness of the Behavioral Health Docket so appropriate cases are identified for services, specialty-docket referral, diversion, or further clinical evaluation.
Educate attorneys and other criminal justice professionals about behavioral health information and treatment considerations within the clinical role.
Consult with courts, defense counsel, community corrections, law enforcement, treatment providers, and other authorized partners about behavioral health needs and available resources.
Oversee referrals to the Behavioral Health Docket and coordinate participant screening and collection of eligibility-related clinical information.
Oversee multidisciplinary case staffing and ensure communication among the court, attorneys, supervision personnel, providers, and docket partners.
Coordinate treatment and community-service referrals; monitor treatment participation and other behavioral health components of participant plans.
Prepare or gather clinical and program information for docket review and court reporting.
Oversee continuity of care and discharge planning, maintain program information, and support performance monitoring and quality improvement.
Ensure grant requirements are met, including collecting and maintaining DIMS and other grant-related data and submitting required reports.
Establish and administer quality-control processes for assigned housing programs.
Conduct or coordinate supervisory review of client files, eligibility determinations, calculations, case documentation, payments, and other transactions.
Coordinate referrals to behavioral health treatment, crisis services, substance-use treatment, psychiatric services, housing, and other community resources.
Oversee continuity of behavioral health care as individuals move between detention, community supervision, treatment providers, and other justice-system components.
Develop and maintain working relationships with behavioral health providers and other service organizations.
Consult on case management and supervision strategies for individuals with significant behavioral health needs and educate justice-system partners about treatment resources and service pathways.
Develop and improve behavioral health screening, referral, and coordination protocols; collect and analyze program information for monitoring and quality improvement.
Oversee grant administration, performance measures, and required reporting.
Provide behavioral health education and training to prosecutors, law enforcement, community corrections personnel, and other justice-system partners.
Maintain accurate, objective, timely, and appropriately confidential clinical and program documentation.
Organize and participate in multidisciplinary meetings, case conferences, and program-planning activities.