Clinical Team Leader

Achieve Behavioral Health Leadership Opportunity

Achieve Behavioral Health has been awarded a NYS Office of Mental Health contract to launch a new 68-capacity Adult Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team, and we're hiring the leader who will build it. This is a senior role for a proven clinician-leader ready to own a program launch end to end; it is not a first leadership position. Achieve is one of New York's original CCBHC demonstration sites, a 650-person organization serving more than 5,300 people annually across Rockland and Orange Counties since 1981. This program extends that care to the county's highest-need adults.

The Team Leader's job is three-fold: practicing clinician on the team, clinical supervisor to each specialty role, and administrator of day-to-day operations. Time splits roughly 50/50 between direct care and supervisory/administrative work. ACT is an evidence-based, mobile, team-based model serving adults with serious mental illness who haven't been well served by office-based care; at least 80% of the team's contacts happen in the community, not the office.

What You'll Do

• Lead a multidisciplinary team of ~9 (nursing, substance use, vocational, family, and peer specialists plus a psychiatric provider), maintaining fidelity to the OMH ACT model and a 10:1 participant-to-staff ratio
• Facilitate the Daily Morning Meeting; provide individual and field-based supervision grounded in evidence-based practice
• Build referral relationships with SPOA, hospitals, and community partners; manage a measured admission pace to full census
• Monitor adherence for participants under court-ordered AOT and coordinate with the county AOT team
• Oversee documentation quality, CAIRS reporting, chart audits, and the annual fidelity self-assessment; use PSYCKES and program data to drive quality improvement
• Ensure 24/7 clinical consultation coverage and share in the team's rotating on-call schedule

Strong Preference For

• Prior ACT team experience, ideally as a Team Leader, Assistant Team Leader, or senior clinician
• Program start-up or new service implementation experience

Requirements

• Master's degree with current NYS licensure (LCSW, LMSW, LMHC, etc.); OR NYS-licensed RN; OR licensed physician
• 5+ years serving adults with serious mental illness, including 2+ years of supervisory experience
• Experience on a multidisciplinary community-based team (e.g., ACT, AOT, mobile crisis, intensive care management)
• Demonstrated competency in evidence-based practices such as motivational interviewing, harm reduction, and trauma-informed care
• Valid driver's license (agency vehicles provided); pre-employment clearances required, including fingerprinting and NYS Justice Center Staff Exclusion List check

Compensation & How to Apply

Salary of $95,000–$105,000 commensurate with experience, plus comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, life, retirement, PTO), full ACT Institute training support.