PACT Team Leader

The Team Leader

The Team Leader establishes, administers, and directs the Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), a self-contained clinical team which assumes responsibility for directly providing needed treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to identified clients with a serious psychiatric illness; supervises and evaluates the multi-disciplinary team in conjunction with appropriate psychiatric support to ensure service excellence and courteous, helpful, and respectful services to program clients;

may function as a practicing clinician on the team. Ensure billing standards, contract specifications, and program regulations are adhered to as set forth by the funding sources. Ensure programs meet high quality standards and provide value to persons served and a public mental health care system. May be required to work in partnership with the funding agency in making programmatic decisions.

• Direct day to day clinical operations of the PACT Team, including scheduling staff work hours to ensure appropriate coverage; lead the daily organizational staff meetings and individual action planning (IAP) meetings; continuously evaluate the status of clients and perform appropriate planning and coordination of activities to ensure immediate attention/response to their changing needs.
• Direct and coordinate the client admission process and treatment, rehabilitation, and support services of the program in coordination with the psychiatrist. Schedule the admission interview; develop and coordinate the initial assessment and initial treatment plan; assign the most appropriate staff to the individual treatment team (ITT); and provide clinical supervision of the development of the comprehensive assessment and the IAP for each client.
• Direct and coordinate, for each client, the client-centered comprehensive assessment of history, mental status and diagnosis, physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living; and family structure and relationships.
• Direct and manage staff recruitment, interviewing, hiring, work assignments, and orientation and performance supervision according to agency policies and procedures; develop and implement staff orientation specific to the PACT team.
• Assist in the development of, and manage adherence to, program budgets. Manage the contract rental subsidy and contingency budget lines to ensure maximization of resources to benefit clients occurs.
• Perform other related duties as required.

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• Direct day to day clinical operations of the PACT Team, including scheduling staff work hours to ensure appropriate coverage; lead the daily organizational staff meetings and individual action planning (IAP) meetings; continuously evaluate the status of clients and perform appropriate planning and coordination of activities to ensure immediate attention/response to their changing needs.
• Direct and coordinate the client admission process and treatment, rehabilitation, and support services of the program in coordination with the psychiatrist. Schedule the admission interview; develop and coordinate the initial assessment and initial treatment plan; assign the most appropriate staff to the individual treatment team (ITT); and provide clinical supervision of the development of the comprehensive assessment and the IAP for each client.
• Direct and coordinate, for each client, the client-centered comprehensive assessment of history, mental status and diagnosis, physical health and dental health; use of drugs or alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living; and family structure and relationships.
• Direct and manage staff recruitment, interviewing, hiring, work assignments, and orientation and performance supervision according to agency policies and procedures; develop and implement staff orientation specific to the PACT team.
• Assist in the development of, and manage adherence to, program budgets. Manage the contract rental subsidy and contingency budget lines to ensure maximization of resources to benefit clients occurs.
• Supervise the client records management; assuring maintenance of the record in compliance with agency policies, and other third party payment requirements; train staff on the record requirements; develop/implement a system that ensure regular reviews of client assessments,…