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Team Leader LMSW/LCSW - Manhattan ACT Team
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES)
Description
Job Title: Team Leader LMSW/LCSW - Manhattan ACT Team
Reports to: Director of Clinical Services
Overview: The CASES Manhattan ACT team provides non-traditional community based mental health treatment to promote the recovery and community integration of 68 adults with serious mental illnesses and co-occurring substance use disorders. Our consumers live mainly in Upper Manhattan (Harlem and Inwood) and the 'in vivo' community-based treatment services of the ACT team support consumers to reduce their use of ERs and inpatient hospital stays. The Team Leader directs and supervises ACT staff activities, leads organizational, clinical and service planning activities and meetings. In collaboration with the ACT psychiatrist, provides clinical leadership and direction to staff regarding individual cases. The Team Leader coordinates administrative functions effectively utilizing the program assistant and CASES fiscal and oversight structures. The Team Leader ensures the team meets performance standards and outcomes as defined by NYS Office of Mental Health licensing standards, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) contracting standards, and the quality assurance standards and targets set by CASES. Working with the psychiatrist leads to ACT staff in the delivery of effective evidence-based clinical, risk assessment, and administrative operations of the team. The leadership results in effective treatment and rehabilitation services to reduce episodes of harmful outcomes such as use of ERs, medical and psychiatric inpatient beds, arrests and incarceration for program consumers. The team leader guides the team to deliver positive behavioral health, social and individual consumer outcomes such as consumer participation in education, competitive employment, and family and social relationships.
Specific responsibilities:
* Oversee the clinical and administrative operations of the ACT Team and reports on activities to the Director of Clinical Services and executive staff;
* Ensure the timely flow of activities to meet ACT core operating principles, goals, and standards;
* Coordinate program admissions and discharges with the SPOA;
* Provide regular clinical supervision for team members;
* Allocate time to deliver consumer services as a member of the clinical team, including direct work with staff in the community;
*Complete assessments, progress notes, and significant data;
* Oversee coordination of reporting to the CASES Incident Review Committee (IRC) and ensure team adheres to IRC policy and procedures and follows recommendations and guidance of the IRC;
* Coordinate Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) reporting and communication and ensure 100 percent compliance;
* Lead the daily organizational meetings and weekly service planning and clinical meeting;
* Train, supervise, and evaluate ACT staff;
* Respond to utilization review and quality assurance review findings to ensure the ACT team operates in compliance with New York State Office of Mental Health guidelines and regulations and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene operating standards;
* Supervise electronic charting in accordance with confidentiality regulations and licensing standards;
* Provide in-service training and promote staff development to ensure that staff have ACT core competencies and ability to deliver quality ACT evidence-based services;
* Promote integration of risk assessment and effective responses to reduce risk factors for harmful outcomes including arrest and incarceration, substance abuse, public disturbance, self-harming behaviors, ER visits, and medical and psychiatric hospitalization;
* Coordinate CAIRS and Health Home reporting and compliance with other reporting as required by DOH, OMH, and DOHMH;
* Coordinate Medicaid billing using electronic medical record to select billable progress notes and ensure team achieves billing targets defined by program budget;
* Ensure all eligible consumers have active Medicaid;
* Manage ACT program services to ensure program operates in accordance to federal, state, and CASES policies related to goverance of a Medicaid billable program;
* Guide the team in effective use of service dollars to support consumer service plan goals and needs;
* Provide on call 24-hour crisis consultation;
* Authorize: time sheets, ordering of supplies, vacation requests and related administrative needs to maintain the smooth operation of the team;
* Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies; and
* Perform other duties as required by Deputy Director and executive staff.
Qualifications
* Master's degree in psychology, social work, or related field;
* Professional NYS clinical license, LMSW, LCSW, PsyD;
* At least three years of supervisory experience providing services to adults with serious mental illness;
* Experience working in community mental health settings that provides services to recipients in-vivo in the community;
* At least two years of experience working on a multidisciplinary team;
* Spanish speaking preferred.
Salary
Commensurate with experience. 35-hour week with excellent benefits.
Contact
How to apply: E-mail cover letter and resume in Word or PDF format to [email protected]. Please list the title of the position you are applying for in the subject line. No phone calls please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.
Posted on 09/25/14; CVMHA ID #8197
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