Position Details

Forensic Program Project Manager

Facility Location: Port Angeles, WA 

Reports to:  Supervisor of Outreach Services

Pay Range:  $22 to $26 per hour (DOE/DOQ)

Workdays and Shift:  M-F 8-5

Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Vacation, Sick Leave, Float Days & Paid Holidays
  • 403(b) Retirement Plan
  • Life Insurance
  • Long Term Disability
  • Wellness Program
  • Employee Assistant Program
  • LifeFlight Membership
  • Education Allowance


JOB PURPOSE:   As part of the Trueblood settlement, the state is funding enhanced engagement to connect individuals detained in city and county jails with services. The Forensic Program Project Manager oversees the day-to-day operations and staff of the Forensic HARPS (FHARPS), Forensic PATH (FPATH), and Outpatient Restoration Competency Program (ORCP). This role ensures that services across programs are trauma-informed, participant-driven, and culturally inclusive. The Manager provides supervision, guidance, and training to team members, ensures program fidelity, and strengthens partnerships with community stakeholders. This position plays a key role in aligning housing, outreach, and competency restoration services to reduce recidivism, support recovery, and promote stability in the community.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 Program Oversight

  • Lead and manage daily operations of FHARPS, FPATH, and ORCP programs.
  • Ensure program services adhere to guiding principles of harm reduction, trauma-informed care, participant voice and choice, and cultural inclusivity.
  • Monitor contract compliance, quality assurance, and timely data/reporting requirements across all programs.
  • Facilitate ongoing improvement of workflows, outreach, and coordination with clinical and community partners.

Staff Supervision and Development

  • Provide direct supervision, support, and professional development to peer outreach specialists and case managers. .
  • Ensure staff receive necessary training and maintain credentials (e.g., Peer Certification, HIPAA, safety protocols).
  • Foster a team culture that promotes wellness, accountability, and lived-experience leadership.

Community Collaboration

  • Build and sustain partnerships with jails, courts, treatment providers, DSHS, landlords, and housing authorities.
  • Coordinate with criminal legal system stakeholders to streamline referral and service engagement pathways.
  • Represent the programs in community meetings and cross-system planning efforts.

Participant-Centered Services

  • Ensure discharge planning begins at engagement and connects participants with individualized services.
  • Support participant transitions from jail, competency restoration, or unstable housing into permanent housing, treatment, or community resources.
  • Promote service delivery that emphasizes empowerment, recovery, and skill-building.

Administrative Duties

  • Track and submit program data, outcome metrics, and reports per contract timelines.
  • Participate in program audits and funder reviews.
  • Oversee data integrity in electronic health records systems.
  • Maintains familiarity with and handles client information in accordance with Federal Regulations (42 CFR, Part 2), the Revised Code of Washington (RCW 71.05.390 and RCW 71.24), and other applicable laws pertaining to confidentiality of client and staff information.
  • Maintains physical security of confidential materials and assigned Agency property.

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Performs relevant clinical and administrative tasks according to agency policies.
  • Demonstrates proficiency in utilization of the Agency's electronic medical record system.
  • Participates in team meetings and program development.
  • Provides information and education to community members.
  • Maintains high standards of professional conduct in interaction with clients, staff, and other community members.
  • Maintains professional competence through a program of professional development and in-service training.
  • Demonstrates flexibility in adapting to changing work demands.
  • Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

Performance Expectations:

  • Demonstrate experience developing positive, collaborative relationships with criminal justice system and social services providers to effectively serve individuals.
  • Maintain accurate, timely chart information in compliance with funding sources while also meeting agency quality assurance guidelines.
  • Meets attendance and punctuality standards necessary for effective program operations.
  • Meets all contract obligations.
  • Understand and adhere to state and federal confidentiality regulations.
  • Conducts self ethically and professionally at all times.
  • Coordinate and prioritize work assignments so that tasks are completed on time and in a quality manner.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, LICENSE(S), CERTIFICATION, AND EXPERIENCE:

Education:  High School Diploma/GED

Licensure (assistance provided): 

  • Agency Affiliated Counselor Registration
  • Certified Peer Support Specialist credential within 6 months of hire
  • Peers Supervising Peers Certificate

Experience: 

  • Must be a person who has their own personal lived experience receiving services for a mental health condition OR is in recovery from a substance use disorder for at least the last two consecutive years.
  • Minimum of 1 year in a supervisory or leadership role.
  • Demonstrated experience with program coordination or project management.

Other:  Valid Driver's License (must have satisfactory and insurable driving record to be able to drive company vehicles) 

Additional requirements:

  • Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test and background check.
  • Must be able to provide vaccination records for MMR, Hep B, Tdap and recent flu shot.

PREFERRED ADDITIONAL CREDENTIALS/EXPERIENCE:

Education:   Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Science or a related field

Licensure:    Currently holds a Certified Peer Support Specialist credential

Experience:   Has an understanding of Peer Support ethical and practice guidelines of being open minded, recovery oriented, hopeful, respectful, empathetic agent of change, strengths focused, and person centered.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Essential:

  • Strong understanding of the intersection between behavioral health, homelessness, and the criminal legal system.
  • Familiarity with housing-first models, harm reduction, and forensic peer support.
  • Proficiency in navigating complex systems of care.
  • High emotional intelligence and ability to coach individuals with lived experience.
  • Skilled in program management, report writing, and interagency coordination.
  • Able to use sound judgments in intervention, support services, and problem solving.
  • Knowledge of social service delivery systems.
  • Ability to coordinate care with multiple service providers.
  • Able to manage crises effectively to ensure safety.
  • Able and willing to work independently and as a team member.
  • Ability to multitask and effectively.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong knowledge of community resources.
  • Must have competence using computer, photocopier, fax machine, smartphone and entering data into electronic database.

NATURE AND SCOPE:

Physical Demands:

  • Moderate physical effort (lift/carry up to 25 lbs.)
  • Occasional sitting/standing/walking/hiking.
  • Occasionally lifts supplies and equipment.
  • Maintains Universal Precautions and uses barriers (gloves, masks, aprons, goggles) appropriately in all potential exposures to body fluids.

Working Environment:

  • May be exposed to infections and contagious diseases.
  • Occasionally exposed to patients exhibiting assaultive behaviors.
  • Works in both office and community-based settings.

Working Demands:

  • Frequent pressure due to schedule demands.
  • Contact with clients under a wide variety of circumstances.
  • Subject to varying and unpredictable situations.
  • Handles emergency or crisis situations.

Principal Challenges:

  • Adopts an approach guided by service recipients' needs and desires.
  • Able to foster and support self-advocacy.
  • Manages personal stress so that on-the-job activities are not negatively impacted.


*Peninsula Behavioral Health does not discriminate because of a person's presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, race, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity including transgender status, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth, and pregnancy-related conditions, age (40), honorably discharged veteran or military status, or use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability, state employee or health care whistleblower status.