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Telecare Corporation

Team Lead Licensed CS NOC - Behavioral Health 377

Telecare Corporation, Dublin, California, United States, 94568


Telecare's mission

is to deliver excellent and effective behavioral health services that engage individuals in recovering their health, hopes, and dreams. Telecare continues to advance cultural diversity, humility, equity, and inclusion at all levels of our organization by hiring mental health peers, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, veterans, and all belief systems.

Location:

Alameda County CA Santa Rita Jail (located in Dublin, CA) is a medium-security detention center operated locally by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both.

Shifts Available:

AM 6:00 am - 4:30 pm / PM 2:00 pm - 12:30 am / NOC 10:00 pm - 8:30 am

Position Summary:

The Licensed Team Lead (Correctional Setting) provides supervision to multidisciplinary teams working with and on behalf of mentally, physically, or developmentally disabled persons; plans, organizes, and directs the work of the staff and program; coordinates service needs, and collaborates with other services and agencies; completes assessments and determines the appropriate level of services for new members; maintains order and supervises the conduct of inmates; protects and maintains the safety of persons and property; and does other related work.

Essential Functions:Demonstrates the Telecare mission, purpose, values, and beliefs in everyday language and contact with internal and external stakeholders.Functions as service plan supervisor for the team; ensures coordination of clinical and administrative team functions including scheduling of staff and individuals served.Directs day-to-day clinical/administrative operations of assigned team, ensuring all individuals served receive services required based on facility policy/procedure/protocol, and as indicated in their treatment plan.Oversees and monitors accuracy of medical records.Safeguards individuals served confidentiality.Promotes a high involvement culture by exhibiting ability to align team around common objectives to ensure contract outcomes and organizational standards are met and maintained.Ensures staff documentation, assessments, and paperwork meet federal, state, county, and organizational standards and timelines.Uses person-centered approaches and can supervise others in their use.Understands documentation requirements and can supervise others to meet these requirements.Develops, updates, and implements individual service plans.Partners with leadership to identify and mitigate risk, and to improve care.Abides by established policies, procedures, protocols and standards of care.Provides consistent supervision, including support, feedback, clinical consultation, and clear expectations for meeting job standards and promotion of professional growth.Tracks, maintains, and ensures compliance with contract expectations and outcomes.Establishes strong customer and community relations.Must evade members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training.Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted, and/or changed at the discretion of management.

Qualifications:Required:One (1) year of experience in a mental health setting.Licensed mental health professional as confirmed by state regulatory/licensing board (e.g., RN, LCSW, LMFT, Psychologist, or LPCC) from the state of operation.Sensitivity to multi-cultural populations and issues.Must be at least 18 years of age.Must be CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment and maintain current certification throughout employment.All opportunities at Telecare are contingent upon successful completion and receipt of acceptable results of the applicable post-offer physical examination, 2-step PPD test for tuberculosis, acceptable criminal background clearances, excluded party sanctions, and degree or license verification.

Preferred:One (1) year supervisory experience or supervisory training within six (6) months of employment.Prior work experience in a crisis setting, acute psychiatric setting, healthcare setting, and or correctional setting which has included assessment of psychiatric and behavioral health members served.Previous experience in providing treatment in an involuntary 24-hour a day, 7-day a week locked setting.Two (2) years of supervision post-masters experience in a behavioral health setting.

Skills:Empathetic understanding of inmate/patients in a County correctional facility; willingness to work in a County correctional facility; emotional stability; patience; tact; alertness; and keenness of observation.Must be reasonably expected to have and maintain sufficient strength, agility and endurance to perform during stressful (physical, mental, and emotional) situations encountered on the job.Ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.Effective written and verbal communication.Ability to assess safety risks.

Knowledge:Principles, procedures, techniques, trends, and literature of social work with particular reference to clinical social work.Psycho/social aspects of mental, developmental, and physical disabilities.Current trends in mental health, public health, public welfare, and Federal and State programs in these fields.

Physical Demands:The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.The employee is occasionally required to sit, squat, kneel, twist, push, pull and lift and carry items weighing 25 pounds or less as well as to frequently walk, stand, bend, reach and do simple and power grasping.

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