FACT NORTH Team Leader: Master's Level, Licensed clinician: LMHC, LMSW, LMFT
About The Position
New Horizons is seeking a caring and compassionate Team Leader for its Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) team. The Team Leader functions as a member of a self-contained clinical team providing treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to people with severe and persistent mental illness. The role carries out rehabilitation and support functions and assists with treatment, substance abuse services, education and support for families, consultation, and crisis intervention. The Team Leader provides case management and coordinates individual treatment team activities; develops, implements, evaluates, and revises treatment goals and plans; provides supportive therapy and symptom management; assesses members’ mental health and response to treatment; and responds to changes in mental status or behavior. The position also supports members’ vocational goals, daily living activities, social and interpersonal skills, and access to healthcare, housing, financial assistance, legal advocacy, and transportation. The Team Leader assists with the FACT team’s day-to-day administrative operations.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in a behavioral science.
- Work experience with adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses or individuals with similar human services needs.
- Skills and competence to establish supportive, trusting relationships with people with severe and persistent mental illnesses.
- Respect for member rights and personal preferences in treatment.
- Valid Florida Driver’s License with six points or less in the last three years.
- Pass a Level 2 background check through the DCF and AHCA Clearinghouse.
Responsibilities
- Provide case management for assigned members and coordinate and monitor individual treatment team activities.
- Develop, write, implement, evaluate, and revise treatment goals and plans with the individual treatment team.
- Provide individual supportive therapy and symptom management, and update treatment plans as members’ needs change.
- Educate and support members’ families and advocate for members’ rights and preferences.
- Assess members’ mental illness symptoms and response to treatment, and make appropriate treatment-plan changes when mental status or behavior changes create risk.
- Provide vocational-supportive counseling to help members identify strengths and barriers, set vocational or career goals, plan how to reach them, and recognize symptoms that interfere with work.
- Provide ongoing assessment, problem solving, side-by-side services, skill training, supervision, and environmental adaptations to support activities of daily living.
- Provide supportive therapy, social-skill development, and assertiveness training to increase members’ social and interpersonal activities in community settings.
- Help members obtain necessities of daily living, including medical and dental care, legal and advocacy services, financial entitlements or housing subsidies, supported housing, money management, and transportation.
- Assist the Team Leader in the day-to-day administrative operations of the FACT team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
