Assistant Team Lead; Mental Health Services

Position: Assistant Team Lead (Mental Health Services)
Overview

The ACCS Assistant Team Leader serves as a primary resource for management, clinical expertise and staff development of an Adult Community Clinical Services (ACCS) Team. The ACCS Teams are interdisciplinary teams of outreach workers designed to provide comprehensive clinical and rehabilitative services to adults with psychiatric conditions. Working under the ACCS Team Leader, the ACCS Assistant Team Leader monitors engagement of all Persons Served (PS), selects intervention strategies for those who are difficult to engage, and designs strategies which will ultimately reduce barriers to living independently in their communities.

The ACCS Assistant Team Leader will train, mentor and model clinical evidence-based practices to all team members and to staff based in Group Living Environments and Supported Independent Environments (GLE/SIE).

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

* Assist in the oversight of clinical programming and service delivery by the team to ensure the needs of Persons Served are adequately met.

* Provide clinical supervision to clinically licensed and other assigned staff.

* Provide competency-based staff training on clinical evidence-based practices to ACCS team members and GLE/SIE Program Directors

* Consult with Licensed staff on appropriate clinical interventions for treatment plans, care transitions, and crisis prevention tactics

* Function as a primary liaison with the Department of Mental Health.

* Perform other related duties as assigned.

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The essential job duties/responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to the information listed below:
• Oversee clinical programming and service delivery by the team.
• Provide clinical supervision to clinically licensed and other assigned staff.
• Monitor engagement status of all PS, consult on intervention strategies, and support LPHAs in effectively addressing lack of initial or sustained engagement for any PS, so that PS are not discharged due to disengagement from services or homelessness.
• Join with LPHA and Lead Peer Specialist in orientation, engagement and enrollment activities for PS presenting high risk behaviors.
• Provide competency-based staff training on clinical evidence-based practices and best practices to team members and GLE/SIE Program Directors, including Motivational Interviewing;
Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment;
Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT);
Housing First;
Stages of Change;
Seeking Safety, and Cognitive Behavioral interventions, as well as the development of Safety Plans and Crisis Prevention and Response Plans, 8 Dimensions of Wellness, and documentation process and standards.
• Mentor and model the use of best practices and evidence-based practice interventions for all staff.
• Support staffs' use of trauma informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered, culturally competent and strengths-based approaches and skills training techniques in their work.
• Support LPHA and Licensed staff performance, including offering role-based and licensure specific supervision, giving consistent and direct performance feedback, completing competency-based assessments, and providing field supervision to directly observe LPHA and Licensed staff interactions and work with PS.
• Promote healthcare and employment and education services access for PS.
• Promote engagement, housing permanency, community tenure, achievement of greater self- sufficiency and successful completion of service.

ACCS Assistant Team Leader - PRD 2
• Consult with LPHAs and Licensed staff on appropriate clinical interventions for treatment plans for difficult to engage PS.
• Regularly review LPHA treatment plans to ensure treatment is effective in addressing the PS's needs and goals that led to enrollment, barriers to movement, or additional needs identified while enrolled in ACCS, and that timely, thorough and thoughtful documentation of PS needs and services is provided.
• Oversee all clinical risk assessment and management strategies and protocols employed by the team so that PS clinical risks are mitigated and proactively addressed. Meet directly with PS as needed to perform assessments, negotiate program…