Therapist Lead (Community Support Team)

There is a place for you at Highland Rivers Behavioral Health!Highland Rivers provides treatment and recovery services to individuals impacted by mental illness; substance use disorders and intellectual developmental disabilities.Are you ready to make a Difference?Job Summary: Plans, manages, and directs the daily operations of Highland Rivers Behavioral Health Community Support Team (CST) Team which is a medium intensity community based program for adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses.

Provides direct care in a recovery focused environment.

Provides direct care services including behavioral health assessments, treatment plan reviews and treatment planning.

Provides therapeutic services to individuals, groups and families.Highland Rivers Health is seeking a Licensed Therapist for the Gilmer County CST program.

Duties and Responsibilities:


* Plans, manages, and directs the daily operations of Highland Rivers Health Community Support Team (CST) Team, a team of 4; providing both direct supervisions to team members including monitoring and tracking workflow and day-to-day work of CST team members.


* Conducts/leads mandatory weekly team meetings to support individual's needs.


* At least 60% of the services must be face-to-face in a community setting.


* Provides billable direct services to CST Individuals through counseling, crisis intervention, case management, and other direct service to individual participants.


* Oversee and ensures, through delegation, the provision of all clinical service to all assigned program areas.


* Participates in developing, managing, and maintaining a collaborative and cooperative service environment in the community at large.


* Monitors CST Team services to ensure compliance with fidelity, accreditation standards, governing boards, and individuals in daily operations of assigned areas.


* Provides oversight and completion of monthly reports internally to Highland Rivers as well as external reports to the Regional Office, DBHDD, etc.


* Monitors, assesses and evaluates programs to determine compliance and progress in meeting established goals.


* Provides clinical oversight for all clinical program operations and staff in addition to providing clinical support to staff who are on-call, in the event a licensed clinician is needed.


* Responsible for keeping all charts in compliance with the ASO, QI, CARF, DBHDD, HFR, and other accreditation standards.


* Establishes professional and ethical relationships with individuals, families and co-workers.


* Recruit, hire, and train new team members to perform standards outlined within their performance evaluations.


* Displays flexibility, cooperation and a positive attitude.


* Completes assigned tasks in a timely manner and requests directions and supervision when appropriate.


* Uses initiative and judgement to assure that circumstances requiring attention are referred to the appropriate team...