What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Team Leader position at Access-Supports for Living?
Location: Kingston, NY
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
Salary : $80,000
