**ACT Team Leader**
Location: 15-Wythe PACT Office **Description**
**JOB SUMMARY**:
The Assertive Community Treatment Team Leader establishes, administers, and directs the program of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), a self-contained clinical team that assumes responsibility for directly providing needed treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to identified individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses; supervises and evaluates the multidisciplinary team in conjunction with appropriate psychiatric support to ensure service excellence and courteous, helpful, and respectful services to program individuals; and functions as a practicing clinician on the team.
**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**:
- Direct the day-to-day clinical operations of the ACT team including to lead the daily organizational staff meetings and treatment planning meetings; continuously evaluate the status of individuals and do appropriate planning and coordination of treatment activities to ensure immediate attention to their changing needs.
- Direct and coordinate the admission process and treatment, rehabilitation, and support services of the program in coordination with the psychiatrist. Schedule the admission interview; develop and coordinate the initial assessment and initial treatment plan; assign the most appropriate staff to the individual treatment team (ITT); and provide clinical supervision of the development of the comprehensive assessment and the treatment plan for each individual.
- Direct and coordinate, for each individual, the person-centered comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (e.g., onset, course and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, and risk behaviors), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living (e.g., self-care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships.
- Participate in staff recruitment, interviewing, hiring, work assignments, and orientation and performance supervision according to work rules, regulations, and policies and collective bargaining agreements; develop and implement staff orientation and training; and manage student training.
- Supervise medical records management assuring maintenance of the medical record in compliance with agency policies, Medicaid, and other third-party payment requirements; train staff on medical record requirements; regularly review client assessments, treatment plans, and progress notes written by the staff; and work closely with the Quality Assurance department.
- Develop and maintain program policies and procedures and revise as necessary.
- Maintain a caseload of individuals in need of counseling services.
**QUALIFICATIONS**:
* Strong Clinical Skills and experience providing treatment to persons with severe and persistent mental illness.
* Supervisory and program management experience preferred.
* Clear understanding of the characteristics and problems of adults with severe and persistent mental illness and substance addictions.
* Knowledge of Assertive Community Treatment Model.
* Ability to develop and manage a clinical treatment team.
**Minimum Requirements**
**EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION REQUIRED:**
1.Masters Degree in nursing, social work, psychiatric rehabilitation, or psychology or is a psychiatrist.
2.Licensed or licensed eligible according to the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Licensed staff preferred.
3.Valid Drivers License and copy of safe driving record.
4.Background check and fingerprinting required
**Mount Rogers Community Services, in following current CMS regulations, requires all New Hires to be Fully Vaccinated against COVID 19 or have a religious or medical exemption approved no later than the date of employment.**
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