TEAM LEAD MENTAL HEALTH
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Job Description
The Team Leader provides leadership and support to the Associate Mental Health Professionals (AMHP) and acts as contact person for the Cottage Life Program Supervisor. Performs all duties and responsibility of an AMHP.
P&BH: Reports to DIRECTOR BRIDGES TREATMENT CTR/MANAGER UNIT SCH VBH
Responsibilities
Acts as preceptor to all student interns and staff on orientation status
Assists in managing and monitoring aberrant behaviors
Assists residents in meeting individual appointments for assessment and/or treatment
Collects data on each resident and prepares information for staffing
Ensures that therapeutic programming is implemented
Chairs all team debriefings before, during and after shift
Notifies the treatment team on any major incidents (e.g., elopement, therapeutic holds, injuries or seclusions)
Acts as contact person for on duty RN regarding medical issues as well as consults and debriefs directly with RN regarding all precautions, elopements, utilization of time out and therapeutic holds, staff/patient injuries or any other major incidents
Provides milieu documentation and monitors records with supervision
Assists in assuring that correct staff/resident ratios are met and adjusted as needed according to acuity
May perform other duties as assigned or requested and job specification can be modified or updated at any time
Qualifications
Required Education: Bachelors Degree in Human Services: Counseling, Education, Social Work, Psychology, or other related field
Preferred Education: Masters Degree in Human Services: Counseling, Education, Social Work, Psychology, or other related field
Required Experience: One (1) year of experience in residential treatment, day hospital, or acute psychiatric inpatient treatment with emotionally/behaviorally disturbed children and adolescents. Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of children and adolescents, ages six through seventeen (6-17) years old
Required Certifications and Licensures: Current CPI (Crisis Prevention Management) certification within thirty (30) days of being hired into this role
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