Description
Location: Kingston NY
Hours: MF 830 am to 5 pm
Salary: $80000
OVERVIEW OF PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITES:
The OnTrackNY Program is an innovative treatment program. The program serves adolescents and young adults who are within two years of experiencing the onset of nonaffective psychosis.
The Team Leader will work 1.0 FTE as part of a small multidisciplinary team providing coordinated and assertive treatment in the earliest stages of psychosis.
PRIMARY FUNCTIONS:
- Provides overall supervision to the team and is responsible for allocation of staff time.
- Ensures staff attendance at required OnTrack NY trainings and consultation calls and completion of additional OnTrackNY related training modules in the Center for Practice Innovations Learning Management System (LMS)
- Fosters and models principles that underlie the model (recovery shared decision making/duty to caredignity of risk person centered cultural humility)
- Ensures all team members are kept informed of issues involving participants and their families.
- Ensures coverage of 24/7 call schedule and access to team.
- Ensures team members can deliver services in the community (offsite) as needed based on participant and family preferences.
- Monitors care load size and coordinates program intakes and discharges.
- Facilitates weekly team meetings and provides training and individual supervision to team Primary Clinicians Supported Employment and Education Specialist and Peer Specialist; and provides administrative supervision to the Prescriber and Nurse.
- Serves as liaison between team and (host agency name here) to ensure adherence to the coordinated specialty care model in the contest of agency name protocols and policies.
- Serves as the Primary Clinician for a subset of program participants. In this role of Primary Clinician the Team Leader will:
- Serve as the point person for the participant and their family;
- Provide services in the community (offsite) as needed based on participant and family preferences.
- Conduct needs assessments;
- Engage in safety planning and wellness management planning with participants;
- Connect participants and families with the services and supports they need;
- Provide behavioral interventions and take an especially active role in the family support domain.
- Conduct clinical assessment to determine the participants level of social functioning and substance use via a shared decision making (SDM) framework
- Provide Social Skills Training Substance Abuse Treatment Behavioral Activation Coping Skills Training and Psychoeducation.
- Provide psychoeducation regarding first episode psychosis (FEP) and the goals of the OnTrackNY program;
- Provide supportive therapy;
- Develop and modify treatment using a shared decisionmaking process with clients
- Work with participants and family for transition from the team to other services and supports and ensure stable links at discharge.
QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES:
- Experience working with adolescents and young adults;
- Experience in communitybased mental health services.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Advanced clinical license (social work psychology); LCSW/LMHC