CST Team Leader (CST DIAMOND)

TRILOGY BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

FREE Virtual Primary Care, Urgent Care

PAID Maternity/Paternity leave

Medical Insurance (BCBS of IL)

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Long-Term & Short-Term Disability

Pet Insurance

FSA (Health, Dependent Care, Transit)

EAP

403(b) Retirement Plan with Employer M

Job summary

TRILOGY BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE is seeking a Team Leader to serve as the senior clinician on the Community Support Team in Chicago. You will supervise staff, coordinate services, and ensure quality care for clients with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders, using a harm-reduction approach.

You will hire, train, coach, and mentor clinicians, interfacing with managers and external partners to improve program effectiveness and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or closely related field.
• Minimum two years of experience with mental health and/or substance use diagnoses.
• Supervisory or leadership experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide weekly supervision and feedback to team members.
• Monitor team morale and maintain positive culture.
• Model client-centered, recovery-oriented care using evidenced based practices.
• Coordinate care with interdisciplinary staff and families for continuity.
• Refer clients to higher levels of care when needed; manage referrals.
• Track team capacity to maintain appropriate staff-to-client ratios.
• Assess clients’ biopsychosocial needs through home, community, and office visits.
• Support crisis interventions and assist with independent living skills and entitlements.
• Schedule daily client visits and run regular team meetings.
• Assist with hiring, onboarding, and ongoing staff training.
• Monitor documentation and annual trainings compliance.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Leadership

Trauma-informed care

Motivational interviewing

Harm reduction

Client-centered care

Care coordination

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Team building

Education

Master’s Degree in Social Work or related field

Tools

Relias Trainings

Job description

The Team Leader will serve as the senior clinician on the Community Support Team (CST) team; and have overall responsibility for the direct supervision of employees on their team and will oversee the coordination and quality of services for clients on their team. They will develop a cohesive team by hiring and training dynamic clinicians, providing coaching and mentoring to team members. The Team Leader will routinely interface with other Team Leaders, Managers, the Executive Team and external partners to enhance communication, and cooperation/collaboration across programs/departments and community partners to improve the quality and comprehensiveness of services provided. The Team Leader willprovide and ensure the team provides client-centered, strengths-based,and trauma-informed services to clients with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse/addiction utilizing a harm reduction approach.

Responsibilities:

• Complete weekly supervision with employees to provide feedback and follow-up on employee duties and responsibilities
• Assess team’s morale and continue to work towards keeping employee and team culture positive.
• Model a client-centered, recovery-oriented approach to services that includes the use of evidenced based practices, i.e. trauma informed care, motivational interviewing, and harm reduction techniques.
• Coordinate care with interdisciplinary staff and family members to ensure continuity of care for clients.
• Recognize and act on opportunities to move clients to appropriate levels of care; provide referrals to additional services as indicated.
• Track capacity for the team to ensure that staff to client ratios are at appropriate numbers.
• Assess client’s personal, medical, emotional, social, and environmental situation through home, community, and office visits.
• Assist clients in identifying signs and symptoms of de-compensation and need for hospitalization. Work collaboratively with clients to identify coping skills to assist in managing symptoms and stressors experienced.
• Support team members with crisis interventions such as petitioning and wellness checks.
• Support team members in working to assist clients in learning and improving independent living skills, applying for entitlements, accompanying clients to important appointments in the community and providing support with issues related to housing, substance use, budgeting, medical issues, social support, and medication.
• Model effective communication within the team model for a multi-disciplinary approach to client care.
• Assist the team with scheduling daily to ensure that all clients that need to be seen are on the schedule and assist with seeing clients as needed.
• Run regularly scheduled team meetings and convey information/changes that are coming from management to the team.
• Assist with hiring, onboarding new employees and ongoing training of staff to provide quality services to clients.
• Monitor employees’ direct service hours and ensures that direct reports and the team are meeting direct service targets.
• Monitor client charts and staff’s time management to ensure all documentation is complete and on time (IM-CANs, notes, etc …)
• Monitor Relias Trainings to ensure staff are compliant with annual trainings.
• Provide services to clients in the community when needed.
• Be familiar with authorization processes for level of care and ensure timely responses to insurance issues that arise.
• Work with the Financial Services Department to finalize client’s rental payments, submit client budgets and BMFs which includes making adjustments as needed
• Monitor team expenditures of client assistance and client loan funds
• Perform other related duties and/or projects as assigned

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, or other closely related field
• Minimum two years experience working with people with mental health and/or substance abuse diagnoses
• Valid Illinois driver’s license with daily access to a well-maintained vehicle with $100,000/$300,000 liability insurance
• Supervisory or leadership experience highly preferred
• FREE Virtual Primary Care, Urgent Care, and Mental Health Counseling for ALL Employees
• PAID Maternity/Paternity leave
• Medical Insurance (BCBS of IL)
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Long-Term & Short-Term Disability
• Pet Insurance
• FSA (Health, Dependent Care, Transit)
• EAP
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with Employer Match

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