Clinical Team Leader

Clinical Team Leader

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The Clinical Team Leader establishes, administers, and directs the Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) Program, a self-contained clinical team that provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to sixty-eight clients with serious mental illness and who are involved with the criminal justice system. Duties include :

• Overseeing the direct day-to-day clinical operations of the FACT Team including staff scheduling, morning meetings, coordination among staff members, and evaluation of treatment activities to ensure excellence of care to meet the individuals ever changing needs.
• Hire, supervise and evaluate a multidisciplinary team ensuring high quality psychiatric treatment that is goal-directed, respectful, meaningful and client driven. Functions as a practicing clinician as part of the team.
• Supervising program documentation and case record management assuring compliance. Regularly reviewing assessments, service plans, progress notes and other records kept and written by staff.
• Providing the full spectrum of clinical treatment and rehabilitative support services to individuals served by the team. This includes home, community and office visits, crisis intervention, completing clinical documentation, and participating in on-call duties.
• Operationalizing evidence-based practices including using a harm reduction, person-centered, recovery-based approach while instilling hope in those served.
• Promoting effective and collaborative communication between co-workers, providers, external providers, regulators and funders.
• Ensuring all services are delivered in a manner consistent with agency procedures and all related State and Federal regulations (NYS Office of Mental Health, Department of Health and Medicaid).
• Ensuring all medication processes and procedures are followed.
• Participating in the development of an annual budget, monitoring expenditures, and adhering to budgetary guidelines. Completing monthly billing for FACT services.
• Providing transportation to clients when necessary. In addition, an employee must be approved to drive agency and personal vehicles for business purposes by maintaining a valid NYS driver's license and must be approved by the agency's vehicle insurance carrier. An employee must always drive in a safe manner and use all safety devices.

Requirements

Skills / Qualifications for the Clinical Team Leader include :

Benefits

Salary and Schedule of the Clinical Team Leader :

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Mohawk Opportunities is committed to helping individuals living with mental illness achieve stable community living and independence.  Our goal is to provide services and supports that assist individuals living with mental illness to thrive and achieve their full potential for a happy, independent life in the community of their choice.