Secondary Response Team/Team Lead

Basic Function: Under the direct supervision of the Secondary Response Manager provides support and consultation to one or more direct service staff providing secondary response services and follow-up to children, adolescents, families, or adults.  The Secondary Response Team-Lead also provides clinical assessment, crisis intervention services, treatment planning, and direct clinical intervention to children and their families experiencing acute and chronic emotional/behavioral disorders within both a community and clinic setting.  Clinical services are provided in compliance with agency productivity standards.

Reporting Relationship:

Reports to:  Secondary Response Manager

Supervises (Position Title):   None

Principal Duties/Responsibilities:

• In support of the Secondary Response Manger, offers recommendations and consultation in accordance with agency performance standards. 
• Provides consultation for all services to ensure the building of client resiliency and consumer input.
• Assures that clients served are provided the appropriate level of intensity of clinical services that are medically necessary.
• Oversees the implementation of the client’s treatment plan and service delivery.
• Assures that all services are provided in accordance with standards of informed consent, maintenance of client rights, standards of confidentiality and are consistent with Agency procedures, licensing standards, and standards of professional practice.
• Assures that all treatment services are compliant with local, state and federal medical regulations.
• Provides and documents direct service hours in compliance with agency standards.
• Monitors psychiatrically hospitalized children, and provides discharge, linkage, and secondary response recommendations. 
• Provides secondary response services within 24 hours to children and adolescents deflected from inpatient hospitalization. 
• Implements clinical services identified in the treatment plan at a level of professional competence commensurate with established protocols.
• Performs comprehensive mental health assessments for children and adolescents referred for crisis or non-crisis mental health services.  This includes the ability to develop and successfully provide a diagnostic assessment consistent with all Axis of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR), International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9), or their successors.
• Develops and implements a comprehensive clinical treatment plan for all youth referred consistent with agency procedure, licensing standards, and standards of professional practice.  Assure that all services are provided in accord with standards of informed consent, maintenance of client rights, and standards of confidentiality.
• Demonstrates expertise in the implementation of diagnostic formulations and criteria using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) and applicable pathways.
• Maintains and adheres to current rules and regulations pertaining to services delivered by the Illinois Department of Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities as well as Department of Children & Family Services, including the Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (ANCRA).

Requirement:

•  Bachelor’s degree in counseling and guidance, rehabilitation, counseling, social work, vocational counseling, psychology, pastoral counseling, family therapy, or a related field is required. Master's preferred 
• An individual with a with 3 years of clinical experience required 
• This position requires the use of a personal auto, valid driver’s license and motor vehicle report acceptable to the agency’s broker and verification of insurance. 
• This position also calls for an individual who has been cleared by the State of Illinois based upon a prior history of child abuse/neglect.  In addition, the individual must clear a personal background review, fingerprinting, and criminal checks.
• This position requires the individual to demonstrate the experiences, beliefs, attitude and awareness that indicate cultural sensitivity to the client population served.

Mental/Physical Demands: Ability to conceptualize and solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.  Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to sit.  The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.  The employee must lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.  Duties are performed in a typical office environment.  No unusual or adverse working conditions exist.

This description documents the general contents and requirements of the job.  It is not to be construed as an exhausted statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.  The principal duties and responsibilities shown are all essential job functions except for those indicated with an asterisk (*).  The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.