Manhattan Forensic ACT Program Director / Team Leader (LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, PsyD/PhD)

CASES keeps people out of jail and prison by engaging them in effective services that help them achieve success in the community. We specialize in serving youth and young adults and people with behavioral health needs. CASES is a leading New York City provider of alternatives to incarceration, a key solution for a fairer criminal justice system. This is an important time at CASES. New York City is on track to create a smaller, safer, and fairer criminal justice system. Working at CASES is more than a job. It is an opportunity to promote justice for New Yorkers with access to high-quality and evidence-based court services.

The Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) team provides mobile community based mental health treatment to promote the recovery and community integration of individuals with serious mental illnesses, high rates of co-occurring substance use disorders and histories of criminal justice involvement. The FACT team serves consumers on parole, probation, returning to the community from jails and prisons, participating in alternative-to-incarceration and treatment court services and those with histories of high-risk and violent behavior. The Forensic Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team Leader directs and supervises FACT staff activities, leads organizational, clinical and service planning meetings, and coordinates administrative functions. In collaboration with the FACT psychiatrist provides clinical direction to staff. The leadership results in effective treatment and rehabilitation services to reduce episodes of harmful outcomes such as use of ERs, medical and psychiatric inpatient beds, arrests and incarceration for program consumers.The Team Leader guides the team to deliver positive behavioral health, social and individual consumer outcomes such as consumer participation in education, competitive employment, and family and social relationships. This is an ideal position for an Forensic ACT team leader interested in the challenge.

Job Title:Director/ Team Leader

Location: Manhattan

Reports To: Director, Mobile Behavioral Health Services

We believe that in-person operations are the best way to serve our clients, both directly and through essential operational support. This job requires work in our offices and/or the community.

• 
  Oversee the clinical and administrative operations of the FACT Team and report on activities to the Director of Mobile Behavioral Health
• Ensure the timely flow of activities to meet FACT core operating principles and goals
• Ensure effective community supervision is integrated into FACT treatment and rehabilitation services
• Ensure the team delivers trauma-informed, recovery-oriented services and effectively applies motivational interviewing
• Oversee coordination of services with relevant criminal justice system stakeholders;
• Provide regular clinical supervision for team members
• Allocate time to deliver consumer services as a member of the clinical team, including direct work in the community
• Ensure the team meets its performance outcomes as defined by NYS Office of Mental Health licensing standards and NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) contracting standards
• Complete assessments, progress notes, and collect significant data
• Oversee team incident reporting procedures and ensure team adheres to IRC policy and procedures and follows recommendations and guidance of the IRC
• Coordinate Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) reporting and communication and ensure 100% compliance
• Lead the daily organizational meetings and weekly service planning meetings
• Train, supervise, and evaluate FACT staff
• Conduct utilization review and quality assurance reviews to ensure that the FACT team operates in compliance with New York State Office of Mental Health guidelines and regulations and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene operating standards
• Supervise electronic charting in accordance with confidentiality regulations
• Provide in-service training and promote staff development to ensure that staff have FACT core competencies and ability to integrate effective community supervision responses
• Promote integration of risk assessment and effective responses to reduce risk factors for recidivism and effective responses to reduce risk factors for harmful outcomes including arrest and incarceration, substance abuse, public disturbance, self-harming behaviors, ER visits, and medical and psychiatric hospitalization
• Consult with Medical Director on especially complex, high-risk cases
• Oversee, coordinate and provide on call 24-hour crisis consultation
• Coordinate CAIRS reporting and compliance with other reporting as required by OMH and DOHMH
• Coordinate collaboration and reporting with Health Homes
• Coordinate Medicaid billing using electronic medical record to select billable progress notes and ensure team achieves billing targets defined by program budget
• Ensure all eligible consumers have active Medicaid
• Coordinate, in collaboration with medical staff, oversight of medication management systems, billing, storage and ordering
• Guide the team in effective use of service dollars to support consumer service plan goals and needs
• Oversee FACT intakes and discharges
• Supervise Criminal Justice Liaison and review court/community supervision reporting procedures and ensure these services are integrated into FACT program operations
• Authorize: time sheets, ordering of supplies, vacation requests and related administrative needs to maintain the smooth operation of the team
• Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies
• Perform other duties as required by Director and executive staff.

• 
  LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, or Licensed Psychologist (PsyD/PhD);
• Two years of supervisory experience;
• At least three years of experience providing services to adults with serious mental illness;
• Experience working in community mental health settings that provides services to recipients in-vivo in the community;
• At least two years of experience working on a multidisciplinary team;
• Knowledge of the criminal justice system, court processes, and community supervision (including probation and parole); and
• Spanish speaking a plus.

Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal justice system. Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.