Assistant Team Leader

Services for the Underserved • Brooklyn, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Team Leader supports the Team Leader in providing leadership and direct activities of a mobile multi-disciplinary treatment team. This role involves supporting staff, ensuring effective communication, leading meetings in the Team Leader's absence, providing direction on individual cases, conducting side-by-side contacts and supervision meetings, and being available for emergency consultation. A significant portion of the role (50%) is dedicated to direct participant services as a member of the clinical staff, with the remaining 50% focused on administrative and supervisory duties. The Assistant Team Leader is also responsible for ensuring cross-training among team members, shared responsibilities for recipients and charting, supporting staff in writing and revising service plans, advocating for participant rights and preferences, and participating in an on-call rotation. Additional responsibilities may be assigned by a supervisor.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, rehabilitation counseling, or a related field required.
• Must have excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Word/Excel.
• Ability to research material via the internet

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, rehabilitation counseling, or a related field or licensure/registration as a registered nurse preferred.
• Professional experience working in a multi-disciplinary mobile team.
• Bilingual English/Spanish

Responsibilities

• Supports the Team leader in directing and supervising staff activities
• Enforces timely and effective communication
• Leads team organizational and service planning meetings in absence of team leader
• Provides direction to staff regarding individual cases
• Conducts side-by-side contacts with staff
• Conducts individual supervision meetings with team leader
• Available by cell phone for emergency consultation/crisis intervention
• 50% of their time to direct participant services as a member of the clinical staff
• 50% of their time to administrative and supervisory duties
• Ensure that over time team members will cross train one another so that each team member has the capacity to engage participants with regard to the entirety of roles and functions of the team as a whole
• Ensure staff share responsibilities for the recipients and for charting
• Supports staff in all areas of writing service plans
• Actively participates in all activities in revising service plans as the participant’s needs change
• Assures that advocacy for the rights and preferences of the participant are conducted
• Responsibility for the recipients of ACT services and for the charting of services
• Advocating for the rights and preferences of the participant whenever possible
• Participates in an on-call rotation
• Additional responsibilities as assigned by immediate supervisor or division head

Benefits

• health and wellness resources
• generous PTO
• professional development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level