Associate FACT Team Leader #3087

Description

Apalachee Center, Inc. is best known for helping individuals and families of North Florida succeed in recovering from emotional, psychiatric, and substance abuse crises. Apalachee Center, Inc. provides comprehensive behavioral health services across 8 counties (Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla Counties).

Apalachee Center, Inc. offers competitive benefits for our full-time positions to include health, dental, vision, basic life insurance, long term disability, paid time off, and more.



Overview:

Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is a dynamic multidisciplinary treatment team dedicated to delivering intensive community-based support to the severely and persistently mentally ill adult population. The purpose of the FACT Associate Team Leader is to be a part of the multidisciplinary treatment team designed to help individuals maintain stable functioning in the community serving as the clinical and administrative supervisor. The FACT Associate Team Leader is responsible to supervise and evaluate the multidisciplinary team in conjunction with appropriate psychiatric support to ensure service excellence and courteous, helpful, and respectful services to program clients, and function as a practicing clinician on the team.The FACT Associate Team Leader is also responsible for providing on-call response and support for crisis intervention and consultation for on-call staff using reasonable judgment to maintain client safety and determine appropriate course of treatment intervention. 

ESSENTIAL/CORE JOB-SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

1. Serves as the Program Supervisor.  Direct the day-to-day clinical operations of the multidisciplinary team to ensure service excellence and compliance with contractual requirements including monitoring of the program budget. Provides and documents formal clinical supervision in accordance with agency policy/staff needs. Conduct scheduled departmental/staff meeting.
2. Direct the day-to-day clinical operations of the FACT team, including scheduling staff work hours to assure appropriate coverage for day, evening, weekend, and holiday shifts and on-call hours.  Leads the daily organizational staff meetings and treatment planning meetings.  Continuously evaluates the status of persons served and ensures appropriate planning and coordination of treatment activities to ensure immediate attention to their changing needs.
3. Direct and coordinate the admission process and treatment, rehabilitation, and support services of the program in coordination with the psychiatrist.  Schedules the admission interview.  Develops and coordinates the initial assessment and initial treatment plan.  Assigns staff to the individual treatment team (ITT).  Provides clinical supervision of the development of the comprehensive assessment and the treatment plan for each person served.
4. Develops and revises (i.e., updates) program procedures and protocols necessary to define and describe the scope and conduct of patient care provided by program personnel.  Oversees and coordinates implementation of program procedures.  Monitors unit functioning to verify appropriate implementation, compliance and adequacy of established plans and procedures.  Initiates revision or update of written plans and procedures as necessary and appropriate. 
5. Initiates and maintains relationships, in coordination with other staff, with SMHF, Law Enforcement and other human services agencies, and with informal community resources (e.g., landlords, employers).

Qualifications

Education/Experience: 

• Master's degree in nursing, social work, mental health counseling, or psychology, or is a psychiatrist.
• Licensed or certified by the state of Florida.
• Five years of professional experience working with persons with severe mental illness (SMI), one of which must have been in an administrative or supervisory capacity.
• Assertive community treatment experience working in off-site community settings consistent with the PACT model of service delivery preferred. 

Licensure or Certification:

• Licensed by the State of Florida as a Clinical Social Worker, Mental Health Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Psychologist, Registered Nurse, or Psychiatrist.

Salary : $32