What are the responsibilities and job description for the ACCS Team Leader position at Eliot Community Human Services?
Eliot is known for our innovative clinical approach, high quality clinical training & for having the most talented people in community behavioral health services. Eliot’s Behavioral Health Division provides an integrated and comprehensive network of services to adults with psychiatric disabilities that are evidence based, provide rehabilitation & hope to those in services.
Eliot is currently seeking a strong, experienced Team Leader to oversee the multidisciplinary ACCS team. The Team Leader ensures that recovery services, vocational services and clinical supports are included in the treatment plan developed for each individual served. The ideal candidate will have leadership experience as well as experience in community-based work with adults with severe and persistent mental illness.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee all administrative and clinical functions of team and oversight of services for all Persons. Monitor overall service delivery and utilization of supports for up to 125 Persons.
- Ensure that programs/teams are coordinating and overseeing all case management related services for Persons in programs. This includes assisting Persons with managing income, insurance, other entitlements, accessing other services and community resources and scheduling/coordination of all medical and psychiatric appointments.
- Ensure that services are culturally competent, strengths based, recovery based, focused on rehabilitation and are inclusive of Person preferences. Ensure that the Person is at the center of all care and that all interventions are developed and provided in a manner consistent with Person preferences.
- Ensure that staff members and the Team are focused on independence and strength based intervention in order to assist Persons in their goals.
- Ensure that recovery services, vocational services and clinical supports are infused in all aspects of care and intervention.
- Prepare Persons and Teams for transition of vocational services to employment support services including but limited to Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission.
- Oversee the completion and direction of clinical assessments related to rehab option and assessments related to risk and crisis management. Ensure that assessments are inclusive of the Person's preferences, are strength based and culturally competent. Ensure that intakes are completed by clinical supervisors in timely manner and that risk is appropriately assessed.
- Provide direct clinical interventions and adapt the individual's treatment plans as needed.
- Provide on-call backup clinical support to case management staff on a rotating basis.
Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am-4pm
Salary Range: Based on license and experience
Location: Danvers MA
Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized racial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, or from fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.
Education
Required- Masters of Social Work or better
- MA or better in MH Counseling or related field
Licenses & Certifications
Required- Licensed Rehab Counselor
- RN
- LMFT
- Lic Alcohol/Dep Coun 1
- LCSW
- LICSW
- LMHC
Skills
Preferred- Management skills
- Supervisory skills
- Administrative Tasks
- Clinical Skills
- Communication Skills
- Experience with population
