Team Lead - ACT Team Job Marshalltown area,Iowa USA,Nursing

Why Prairie Ridge?

At Prairie Ridge Integrated Behavioral Healthcare, our mission is to empower individuals to live healthy, purpose-filled lives on their terms. We believe in the potential of every person and recognize that meaningful care starts with understanding their experiences, strengths, and goals. Through personalized, whole-person care, we help individuals build the skills, connections, and support they need to move forward.

Our work is guided by five core values:
Unyielding Empowerment, Relentless Resiliency, Inspirational Integrity, Active Accountability, and Radical Respect. These values shape how we care for the people we serve, work alongside one another, and connect with our communities. We value the different experiences and perspectives each team member brings and the collaboration it takes to provide thoughtful, coordinated care.

As part of our new Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team serving the Marshalltown area, you’ll have the opportunity to help build something meaningful from the beginning. You’ll work alongside colleagues from different professional backgrounds to bring treatment and practical support directly to individuals in their everyday lives, helping them work toward greater stability, independence, and the goals that matter to them.

What

Is the ACT Team?

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a team-based approach to supporting adults living with serious and persistent mental illness. The team brings treatment and practical support into people’s homes and community settings, helping them manage symptoms, navigate challenges, and work toward their personal goals. Team members from different professional backgrounds work closely together to provide coordinated, individualized care.

As the ACT Team Leader, you will help build and guide our new team serving the Marshalltown area, overseeing daily operations and the delivery of coordinated, individualized care. You’ll supervise and support staff, manage staffing and service coverage, lead team meetings, and provide clinical direction. Your role will also include hiring and training team members, monitoring service quality and documentation, providing direct clinical services as needed, and participating in the on-call rotation.

DUTIES

AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide supervision of clinical services for the ACT Team.

Plan, implement and manage staffing to ensure required level of service to participants.

Facilitate team/staff meetings to encourage transparency amongst the inter-disciplinary team and provide clinical direction as appropriate.

Coordinate with ACT Team members and scheduling of all consultation meetings

Assist patients and staff with any telehealth related IT issues such as getting screens connected, troubleshooting IT and process issues when they arise, making sure patients have necessary information to connect to telehealth services.

Keep support staff updated on any schedule changes with patients or team members related to meetings and consultations.

Respond to emerging clinical and customer service needs in a prompt and professional manner.

Work collaboratively with other members of residential, care management, leadership and administrative staff to meet the customer service and clinical needs of participants and their families, including an on-call rotation with ACT Team members.

Monitor participant level of service and treatment provision by the team in accordance with guidelines for ACT Teams.

Ensure training and clinical supervision is provided within scope of practice.

Monitor the team/staff adherence to clinical documentation standards.

Review case records as to clinical appropriateness (i.e., clinical interventions are appropriate, follow-up services are documented, etc.)

Interview, hire, and…