FACT Team Leader

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title:  FACT Team Leader

Job Summary:

The Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) team is a multi-disciplinary team that provides evidence-based, mobile, community-based mental health treatment to promote the recovery and community integration of individuals age 18 and up with serious mental illnesses, recent history of criminal legal involvement, high rates of co-occurring substance use disorders and high utilization of emergency/crisis services. The FACT team serves consumers on parole, probation, returning to the community from jails and prisons, participating in treatment court services, and those with histories of high-risk and violent behavior.

The FACT Team Leader directs and supervises FACT staff activities, leads organizational, clinical and service planning meetings, and coordinates administrative functions. In collaboration with the FACT psychiatrist provides clinical direction to staff. The leadership results in effective treatment and rehabilitation services to reduce episodes of harmful outcomes such as use of emergency rooms, medical and psychiatric inpatient beds, arrests and incarceration for program clients. The Team Leader guides the team to deliver positive behavioral health, social and individual client outcomes such as client’s participation in education, competitive employment, and family and social relationships.

Salary:  The salary for the FACT Team Leader is $101,458 - 104,499.

Shift Hours:  The FACT Team Leader is full-time Monday through Friday 9am-5pm shift. 

Location Address: 424 East 147th Street, 1st Floor, Bronx, NY 10455

Workplace Flexibility: Flexible - (for roles that have days that can be partially remote, e.g., being able to draft notes at home after going to the office/community in the morning). Maximum 1 day per week virtual team meeting  

What you will be doing:

• Oversees the clinical and administrative operations of the FACT Team, including but not limited to: daily team meetings, regular clinical meetings, timeliness and quality of clinical documentations and reporting, intakes and discharges, team’s after-hour emergency line, use of service dollars, and team members’ schedules 
• Ensures the team delivers culturally and developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented services and effectively applies motivational interviewing
• Provides regular clinical supervision, training and professional development opportunities for team members
• Provides direct clinical care and services to consumers in the community when needed
• Ensures the team meets its performance outcomes and operational standards as defined by New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) licensing standards and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) contracting standards
• Oversees team’s incident reporting procedures according to OMH standards and ensure team adheres to the Incident Review Committee (IRC) policies and procedures
• In collaboration with the Quality Assurance department, conducts utilization review and quality assurance reviews to ensure that the FACT team operates in compliance with New York State OMH guidelines and regulations, New York City DOHMH operating standards, as well as HIPAA confidentiality regulations
• Consults with senior clinical leadership on complex, high-risk cases, as well as team and personnel issues
• Coordinates monthly Medicaid billing using electronic medical record to select billable progress notes and ensure team achieves billing targets defined by program budget
• Performs other duties as required by ACT Leadership and executive staff

'What we are looking for: 

• LCSW, LMSW, LMHC, RN, or Licensed Psychologist (PsyD/PhD)

• Two years of supervisory experience

• At least three years of experience providing services to adults with serious mental illness

• Experience working in community mental health settings that provides services to recipients in-vivo in the community

• At least two years of experience working on a multidisciplinary team

• Experience working with and knowledge of the needs and challenges faced by individuals involved in the criminal legal system