ACT Team Leader - Logan Square
The Team Leader will serve as the senior clinician on the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team; and have overall responsibility for the direct supervision of employees on their team and will oversee the coordination and quality of services for clients on their team. They will develop a cohesive team by hiring and training dynamic clinicians, providing coaching and mentoring to team members. The Team Leader will routinely interface with other Team Leaders, Managers, Executive Team and external partners to enhance communication, cooperation/collaboration across programs/departments, as well as community partner in order to improve the quality and comprehensiveness of services provided. The Team Leader will provide and ensure the team provides client-centered, strengths-based, and trauma-informed services to clients with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse/addiction utilizing a harm reduction approach.
Essential Responsibilities
* Complete weekly supervision with employees to provide feedback and follow-up on employee duties and responsibilities
* Assess team’s morale and continue to work towards keeping employee and team culture positive.
* Model a client-centered, recovery-oriented approach to services that includes the use of evidenced based practices, i.e.
trauma informed care, motivational interviewing, and harm reduction techniques.
* Coordinate care with interdisciplinary staff and family members to ensure continuity of care for clients.
* Recognize and act on opportunities to move clients to appropriate levels of care; provide referrals to additional services as indicated.
* Track capacity for the team to ensure that staff to client ratios are at appropriate numbers.
* Assess client’s personal, medical, emotional, social, and environmental situation through home, community, and office visits.
* Assist clients in identifying signs and symptoms of de-compensation and need for hospitalization. Work collaboratively with clients to identify coping skills to assist in managing symptoms and stressors experienced.
* Support team members with crisis such as petitioning, and wellness checks.
* Support team members in working to assist clients in learning and improving independent living skills, applying for entitlements, accompanying clients to important appointments in the community and providing support with issues related to housing, substance use, budgeting, medical issues, social support, and medication.
* Model effective communication within the team model for a multi-disciplinary approach to client care.
* Assist the team with scheduling daily to ensure that all clients that need to be seen are on the schedule and assist with seeing clients as needed.
* Run regularly scheduled team meetings and convey information/changes that are coming from management to the team.
* Assist with...
- Rate: Not Specified
- Location: CHICAGO, US-IL
- Type: Permanent
- Industry: Engineering
- Recruiter: Trilogy Inc
- Contact: Lindsy Adkins
- Email: to view click here
- Reference: ACTTE004314-00001
- Posted: 2024-10-25 08:17:42 -
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