Team Leader

Salary: $96,740 - $115,377Grade: 26The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene is seeking a qualified candidate to fill a full-time Team Leader. The OnTrack NY Program is a Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) treatment program at the Washington Heights Community Service, based at the NYS Psychiatric Institute/ Columbia Department of Psychiatry, a premier research, clinical, and academic center.OnTrack NY serves adolescents and young adults experiencing early psychosis. Our mission is to empower young people to make meaning of their experiences and to pursue their goals for school, work, and relationships. Equity, inclusion, rapid access, and self-determination are at the core of everything we do. The Team Leader role is a full-time, on-site position leading a multidisciplinary, specialized early psychosis team that provides coordinated and assertive treatment to enrolled participants and their families. The OnTrack NY model offers hopeful, youth-friendly, recovery-oriented work; a supportive & collaborative team-based approach; low participant care load; training and technical assistance in the CSC model; and a learning community of experts and colleagues.Duties and Responsibilities:1.Fostering and modeling principles that underlie the model: recovery, shared decision making, person centered, cultural humility.2.Overseeing team functioning, including facilitating weekly team meetings, ensuring collaboration and communication among team members, training and supervising the team and being responsible for allocation of staff time.3.Establishing and participating in rotation for 24/7 on-call coverage4.Monitoring care load size, coordinating intakes and discharges, and conducting eligibility evaluations when needed.5.Serving as the Primary Clinician for a subset of program participants, which includes, conducting assessments and treatment planning; assessing risk and engaging in safety planning; providing individual therapy, care management and family services, providing services in the community as needed; and supporting participants in transitioning from the team to other services.6.Ensuring timely documentation of all services provided7.Completing required data reporting for program evaluation and fidelity assessment and utilizing data to support quality improvement8.Serving as the liaison between the team and the WHCS to ensure adherence to the CSC model and agency protocols and policies.9.Supervise the primary clinicians, outreach, and recruitment coordinator, supported education and employment specialists, peer specialist and administrative assistant. 10.Completing other tasks as assigned.Minimum Qualifications:•Master’s or Ph.D. degree in an appropriate field (social work, psychology, mental health counseling or similar) with active NY state clinical license.•At least 2 years supervisory experience in a mental health setting. OR 2 years’ experience working in a specialized FEP program may substitute for supervisory experience.Preferred Qualifications:•At least 1 year experience working with adolescents and/or young adults with serious mental illness. •At least 1 year experience in community-based mental health services and team-based care. •Bilingual English/Spanish.Work Location: 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032To Apply: Submit an application and cover letter to on our website at https://nyspi.applicantpro.com/jobs/ . Please note- only applications submitted through our website will be considered.The Research Foundation is a private not-for-profit corporation and is not an agency or instrumentality of the State of New York. Employees of the Research Foundation are not state employees, do not participate in any state retirement system, and do not receive state fringe benefits. Excellent Benefits Package. Employer/Minority/Women/Disabled/Veteran Employer. VEVRAA 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) compliant.The Mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. OMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, OMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring OMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. OMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Minimum Salary: 96740 Maximum Salary: 115377 Salary Unit: Yearly