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Clinical Team Leader

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Description

Hours: M-F 830 am to 5 pm

Salary: $80,000

OVERVIEW OF PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITES :

The OnTrackNY Program is an innovative treatment program. The program serves adolescents and young adults who are within two years of experiencing the onset of non-affective psychosis.

The Team Leader will work 1.0 FTE as part of a small multidisciplinary team providing coordinated and assertive treatment in the earliest stages of psychosis.

PRIMARY FUNCTIONS :

+ Provides overall supervision to the team and is responsible for allocation of staff time.

+ Ensures staff attendance at required OnTrack NY trainings and consultation calls, and completion of additional OnTrackNY related training modules in the Center for Practice Innovation’s Learning Management System (LMS)

+ Fosters and models principles that underlie the model (recovery, shared decision making/duty to care-dignity of risk, person centered, cultural humility)

+ Ensures all team members are kept informed of issues involving participants and their families.

+ Ensures coverage of 24/7 call schedule and access to team.

+ Ensures team members can deliver services in the community (off-site) as needed based on participant and family preferences.

+ Monitors care load size and coordinates program intakes and discharges.

+ Facilitates weekly team meetings and provides training and individual supervision to team Primary Clinicians, Supported Employment and Education Specialist, and Peer Specialist; and provides administrative supervision to the Prescriber and Nurse.

+ Serves as liaison between team and (host agency name here) to ensure adherence to the coordinated specialty care model in the contest of agency name protocols and policies.

+ Serves as the Primary Clinician for a subset of program participants. In this role of Primary Clinician, the Team Leader will:

+ Serve as the point person for the participant and their family;

+ Provide services in the community (off-site) as needed based on participant and family preferences.

+ Conduct needs assessments;

+ Engage in safety planning and wellness management planning with participants;

+ Connect participants and families with the services and supports they need;

+ Provide behavioral interventions and take an especially active role in the family support domain.

+ Conduct clinical assessment to determine the participant’s level of social functioning and substance use via a shared decision making (SDM) framework

+ Provide Social Skills Training, Substance Abuse Treatment, Behavioral Activation, Coping Skills Training, and Psycho-education.

+ Provide psychoeducation regarding first episode psychosis (FEP) and the goals of the OnTrackNY program;

+ Provide supportive therapy;

+ Develop and modify treatment using a shared decision-making process with clients

+ Work with participants and family for transition from the team to other services and supports, and ensure stable links at discharge.

QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES :

+ Experience working with adolescents and young adults;

+ Experience in community-based mental health services.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE :

+ Advanced clinical license (social work, psychology); LCSW/LMHC

EOE

IND2024

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