Assertive Community Treatment Team Lead

UnityPoint Health - Fort Dodge, Berryhill Center

FTE: 1.0 (Full-time, 40 hours per week)
Shift: Flexible weekday shifts

$7,500 Sign-on Bonus

Why UnityPoint Health?

• Culture - At UnityPoint Health, you Come for a fulfilling career and experience guided by uncompromising values and unwavering belief in doing what's right for the people we serve.
• Benefits - Our competitive program offers benefits options like 401K match, paid time off and education assistance that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you're in.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment - We're committed to ensuring you have a voice that is heard regardless of role, race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.
• Development - We believe equipping you with support and is an essential part of delivering a remarkable employment experience.
• Community Involvement - Be an essential part of our core purpose-to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Visit us at UnityPoint.org/careers to hear more from our team members about why UnityPoint Health is a great place to work.

* Provides clinical supervision for ACT team staff and monitors quality of care in person and through documentation review.

* Completes a pre-screening of all referrals to determine if eligibility criteria are met. Positively interfaces with referral sources, potential clients and their family members through the referral and admission processes.

* Provides interventions that recognize that complex nature of individual's resources, strengths and challenges.

* Provides on-call interventions covering after business hours, overnights and weekends as assigned.

* Recognize early symptoms of physical and mental illness and performs/coaches' staff to perform appropriate interventions in accordance of an individual's crisis plan.

* Effectively notifies other supervisors, manager, prescriber, treatment team members, guardians, and other identified individuals if crisis or potential crisis situation.

* Develop and utilize crisis planning with team and patients.

* Provide therapeutic services as needed for individuals or groups within patients in ACT.

* Attends regularly scheduled staff meetings, and in-service trainings.

* Coach team members in building appropriate therapeutic approaches for the treatment of patients.

* Creates work schedules that provide coverage for 24/7 365 staffing with collaboration of Outreach Manager.

* In collaboration with the team psychiatrist or ARNP coordinate, schedule, and administer assessments of client physical and mental health to make appropriate referrals to community physicians for further assessment and treatment. Coordinating psychiatric treatment with medical treatment as appropriate.

* Functions as a practicing clinician on the team and provides service coordination (case management) for an assigned group of patients.

* Participates in patient-centered comprehensive assessment within 30 days of new admission and as needed on patients as assigned.

Education:

Has a bachelor's degree in a mental health field, including but not limited to nursing, social work, mental health counseling, psychiatric rehabilitation, or psychology

Experience:

Experience with providing service to individuals with a severe and persistent behavioral health needs. Prior experience providing mental health and substance use disorder treatment. Leadership experience required.

License(s)/Certification(s):

One of:

Bachelor's Level Social Worker
Bachelor's Level Independent Social Worker
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Bachelor's Level Nursing

Bachelor's in Criminology

AND Valid Iowa driver's license. Class D license required. Reliable transportation for use while performing job.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Ability to delegate wisely, exercise good judgment, maintain good interpersonal relationships, adapt to change, evaluate critically and think creatively. Individual will demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide appropriate care to adult and geriatric patients with severe and persistent mental illnesses. Individual will demonstrate effective written and verbal skills allowing communication with physicians, co-workers, other clinic/hospital personnel, as well as the public. Position requires good organizational skills.