Therapist Team Leader, Clay Outpatient
About The Position
The Therapist Team Leader serves as a program leader and provides clinical services to consumers, including assessment, diagnosis support, treatment planning, and individual, group, and family therapy. The role collaborates with consumers, families, treatment team members, and outside sources to deliver appropriate care, support crisis de-escalation, provide education, and assist with discharge planning and services intended to prevent commitment. The position also supports program operations and staff through orientation, training, supervision, consultation, performance evaluations, and monitoring of assigned duties. It maintains clinical records in accordance with AltaPointe policies, manages a caseload and productivity requirements, and participates in performance improvement, committees, and other administrative duties.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in a mental health discipline.
Responsibilities
- Maintain an active role as program leader.
- Conduct effective clinical assessments and use assessment data to support a DSM-5 diagnosis.
- Formulate person-centered, recovery-oriented, medically appropriate treatment plans with consumers and, as appropriate, families; demonstrate medical necessity and obtain required signatures.
- Provide individual, group, and family therapy using appropriate basic therapeutic models and theories.
- Recognize crisis situations and de-escalate or resolve them.
- Collaborate with treatment team members and outside sources in delivering clinical services.
- Provide support and education to consumers and family members.
- Evaluate consumers for discharge planning and facilitate services that prevent commitment.
- Adhere to professional ethics and demonstrate adult- and child/adolescent-specific competencies.
- Assist with seclusion and restraint in accordance with AltaPointe policy and procedures.
- Assist supervisors with interviews when needed and complete required personnel forms.
- Train staff on facility orientation, policies and procedures, program operations, and specific skill areas.
- Apply personnel policies and procedures consistently.
- Complete objective performance evaluations for supervised staff and submit them to the Personnel Department promptly.
- Provide positive leadership, staff consultation, and supervision individually or through group meetings; ensure staff competence and monitor assigned work.
- Seek clinical supervision and consultation as needed, accept suggestions for improvement, and enhance clinical skills.
- Complete timely, accurate, clear, and clinically comprehensive documentation, including assessments, treatment plans, services, consumer responses and progress, dispositions, closings, follow-up, and referrals.
- Sign documentation legibly and include credentials; learn and use Avatar and document incidents through RL-6.
- Manage caseloads according to consumer needs and meet APHS productivity standards.
- Treat consumers, visitors, and coworkers courteously and respectfully; protect consumer privacy and confidentiality and respond sensitively to individual needs.
- Participate in Performance Improvement activities and APHS committees as required.
- Complete assigned tasks on time and access community resources appropriate to consumer needs.
- Follow APHS policies and procedures.
- Maintain a current license and renewal requirements, if applicable, and attend required in-services and workshops.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
