Lead Clinician- Assertive Community Treatment Team

SOUTH CENTRAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING CTR•El Dorado, KS

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a patient-centered, recovery-oriented behavioral health service delivery model that has received substantial empirical support for reducing psychiatric hospitalizations, facilitating community living, and enhancing recovery for persons with serious mental illness. ACT is designed specifically for persons who have the most severe and persistent mental illnesses, have severe symptoms and impairments, and historically have not benefited from traditional outpatient programs. The Lead Clinician functions as the manager for an interdisciplinary group of staff including QMHP’s, Case Managers, LPN, and Peer Support. This role involves completing clinical responsibilities such as monitoring consumer’s status, delivering direct services to consumers, supervising the clinical performance of team members, and providing feedback. The Lead Clinician will also build relationships with other community caregivers, secure feedback from clients, hire and train team members, and manage administrative tasks such as processing timesheets and leave requests. A significant part of the role includes ensuring fidelity to the ACT model through quality reviews, staff evaluations, and monitoring paperwork and client contact. The Lead Clinician facilitates daily team meetings, monitors the referral process, resolves grievances, and works with the team to develop crisis prevention plans and person-centered treatment goals. Treatment is primarily provided in the community. The role requires participation in administrative and interdisciplinary clinical staff meetings, completion of all required training and fidelity requirements, and support for consumers in achieving treatment goals. The Lead Clinician contributes to a program culture that is person-centered, outcome-oriented, and dedicated to continuous quality improvement, completing all required documentation and training accurately and in a timely manner. The position also involves exhibiting and promoting decisions and behavior consistent with the Center’s established Vision, Mission, and Values, and managing the ACT team while monitoring faithfulness to the ACT model. The schedule is varied based on consumer needs and will involve some evenings, one weekend day, and eventually on-call rotating coverage. The Clinician completes a comprehensive assessment for anyone entering the ACT Team and identifies services based on the assessment. Other assigned activities may also be part of the role.

Requirements

Minimum of master’s degree in nursing, social work, psychiatric rehabilitation, or psychology.
Demonstrate an ability to relate well with others and show leadership skills that will support autonomy and growth for their staff.
Have administrative and clinical skills and authority.
Pass a criminal background and driver’s license check to the satisfaction of SCMH.

Nice To Haves

Prefer one-year supervisory experience.
Prefer clinical licensure.
Preferred experience includes: Working with adults who have been diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, knowledge of community resources, and service provision.
Must have strong organizational skills along with effective communication skills both orally and in writing.

Responsibilities

Functions as the manager for an interdisciplinary group of staff including QMHP’s, Case Managers, LPN, and Peer Support.
Completing clinical responsibilities such as monitoring consumer’s status, delivering direct services to consumers, supervising the clinical performance of team members, providing feedback to team members.
Build relationships with other community caregivers that will facilitate the availability of natural supportive relationships for clients.
Secure feedback from clients regarding suitability and satisfaction with center services.
Hire team members and provide orientation and ongoing training with weekly supervision to staff assigned to their team. Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Process timesheets, leave requests, expense reimbursements, and management of vehicle usage.
Spends at least 2 hours per week providing a quality review of tools for the ACT model.
Perform evaluations for staff members.
Monitors and reviews paperwork and staff’s client contact to ensure that it is meeting the targeted expectation.
Facilitates daily team meetings to assign cases to team members and review day’s work responsibilities.
Monitor the referral process to ensure appropriate services are offered, in an appropriate, and timely manner.
Resolution of grievances and conflicts with staff.
Works with ACT Team to develop a crisis prevention plan and treatment goals by working with the consumer identifying their needs to provide person-centered treatment.
Participates in administrative and interdisciplinary clinical staff meetings.
Completes all required training and meets fidelity requirements as defined by ACT evidence-based practices. This includes standards relating to admission criteria, staff-to-client ratio, responsibility for treatment services, responsibility for coordination of hospital admissions/discharges, time-unlimited services, assertive engagement mechanisms, the intensity of service, and frequency of contact. Completes all required refresher training and completes all requirements to demonstrate competency to practice.
Support consumers to achieve treatment goals, coordinate with collateral contacts, medication education, crisis management, prompt client to complete daily living activities, monitor client one to one for safety or as needed.
The ACT Team Manager will participate and contribute to a program culture that is person-centered, outcome-oriented and dedicated to continuous quality improvement.
Complete all required documentation and training in a timely and accurate manner as defined by the agency.
Exhibits and promote decisions/behavior consistent with the Center’s established Vision, Mission, and Values.
Managing the ACT team and monitoring the faithfulness to the ACT model.
Clinician completes a comprehensive assessment to anyone entering the ACT Team and identifies services consumer should receive in ACT based on the assessment.
Other activities assigned.