Team Leader

Full Time
Brooklyn, NY 11208
Posted
Job description
THE NEW BROOKLYN ACT TEAM LEADER NEEDED

WellLife Network is seeking a Team Lead to join our new Brooklyn Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program.
ACT is a team-based treatment model that provides multidisciplinary, flexible treatment and support to people with severe mental illness.
WHO YOU ARE: The Team Lead is responsible for establishing, administering, and directing a self-contained clinical team that assumes responsibility for directly providing needed treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to identified clients with severe and persistent mental illness; supervises and evaluates staff performance to ensure service excellence and courteous, helpful, and respectful services to program clients; and function as a practicing clinician on the team.
SOME ESSENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
  • Leads daily team organizational and service planning meetings provides direction to staff regarding individual cases and regularly conducts individual and group supervision meetings.
  • Participate in staff recruitment, interviewing, hiring, work assignments, orientation, and performance supervision.
  • Provide leadership through positive modeling and be open to the opinions of all team members.
  • Guide to ACT staff for identification of potential barriers to care and resolutions to those barriers.
  • Audit client charts regularly.

Qualifications:
  • Master’s degree or higher in social work, psychology, rehabilitation counseling, or a related field, with licensure/registration. LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, RN (RNs are encouraged to be masters level or nurse practitioner), or physician (Ph.D., Psy. D, M.D.). Preference will be given to persons with experience on a multidisciplinary mobile team.
  • Two years of supervisory experience with all levels of staff. Experienced in meeting regulatory requirements with OMH and other governmental agencies and working with behavioral health population preferred.
  • Computer proficiency, including the ability to use email, navigate and enter all documentation into the electronic medical record.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills and knowledge of group dynamics required
  • Valid New York State driver’s license and vehicle required – candidates are subject to regulatory background checks.

WHAT WE OFFER
  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
  • Paid Time Off to support you with an active life outside of work
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Flexible Spending Options (health care, dependent care,)
  • Employee Assistance Program to support overall mental wellbeing
  • Matched 401(k) to help you invest in your future
  • Generous Employee Referral Program

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. This position may be required to perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the team and clients.



About WellLife Network:

ABOUT USSince 1980, WellLife Network, has been meeting the growing challenges of individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities and mental illness. Our multidisciplinary approach and centralized referral process help to ensure that each person we serve receives the appropriate range of services and level of care, with an individual treatment plan, coordinated by highly competent and supportive case management professionals.In its early years, WellLife Network operated and maintained community residential facilities for people with developmental disabilities and mental illness, and to provide programs of care, service, habilitation, rehabilitation, social and recreational activities, in a homelike environment. Partnerships Make It HappenFor almost four decades, WellLife Network has changed, evolved and expanded, while remaining true to its mission of meeting the diverse needs of New York communities, business and society and assisting those we serve achieve greater personal and economic independence. WellLife Network has a long and valued tradition of working in partnership with government, the business community, private philanthropy and our colleagues in the nonprofit sector to offer proactive responses to society’s social and economic challenges. Since its founding, the WellLife Network culture has been marked by program growth and organizational development. A Network of Services - A Culture of Caring and Best PracticesToday, with an annual operating budget of $100 million, a workforce of 1,800 staff, interns and volunteers and an affiliate subsidiary company, WellLife Network delivers critical services in the areas of behavioral health, intellectual/developmental disabilities, housing, co-occurring substance abuse behaviors, family support, vocational training and care management. These services meet the pressing needs of more than 25,000 individuals and families annually, some 2,000 New Yorkers every single day. A culture of caring, best practices models, a spirit of innovation and a commitment to measuring results and producing high return on investment drive our work.A key element to our successful growth is our focus on technology, financial viability and quality assurance – critical infrastructure supports that enable WellLife Network to deliver services with cost-efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability in a manner that mirrors the standards of high-performing business enterprises.

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