Team Leader - Psychology - Ontrackny Program - New York, NY

Description

The Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a Team Leader for its OnTrackNY Program.

The OnTrackNY Program is a Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) treatment program at Mount Sinai serving adolescents and young adults who are experiencing early psychosis. Our mission is to empower young people to make meaning of their experiences and to pursue their goals for school, work and personal relationships. Equity, inclusion, rapid access and self-determination are at the core of everything we do.

OnTrackNY team staff receive expert training and technical assistance in the CSC model and protected time for professional development through the statewide OnTrackNY Initiative at the Center for Practice Innovations at Columbia Psychiatry and New York State Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene.

We offer:

• Low participant caseload to facilitate individualize care

• Opportunities for creative and flexible engagement in the office, via telehealth and in the community

• Hopeful, youth-friendly, recovery-oriented work with young people and their families

• A supportive and collaborative team-based approach

• A learning community where you can connect with diverse practitioners, explore new ways of thinking, and expand your capabilities

The Team Leader role is a full-time position. The Team Leader leads a small multidisciplinary team and provides coordinated and assertive treatment to enrolled participants and their families. The duties include:

• Fosters and models principles that underlie the model (recovery, shared decision making/duty to care-dignity of risk, person centered, cultural humility)

• Ensures all team members are kept informed of and collaborate on issues involving participants and their families.

• Provides overall supervision to the team and is responsible for allocation of staff time.

• Ensures coverage of 24/7 call schedule and access to team.

• Ensures team members can deliver services in the community (off-site) as needed based on participant and family preferences.

• Monitors careload size and coordinates program intakes and discharges.

• Facilitates weekly team meetings and provides training and individual supervision to team Primary Clinicians, Supported Employment and Education Specialist, and Peer Specialist; and provides administrative supervision to the Prescriber and Nurse.

• Serves as the Primary Clinician for a subset of program participants. In this role of Primary Clinician, the Team Leader:

• Serves as the point person for the participant and their family;

• Provides services in the community (off-site) as needed based on participant and family preferences.

• Conducts needs assessments;

• Engages in safety planning and wellness management planning with participants;

• Connects participants and families with the services and supports they need;

• Provides behavioral interventions and take an especially active role in the family support domain.

• Conducts clinical assessment to determine the participant's level of social functioning and substance use via a shared decision making (SDM) framework

• Provides Social Skills Training, Substance Abuse Treatment, Behavioral Activation, Coping Skills Training, and Psycho-education.

• Provides psychoeducation regarding first episode psychosis (FEP) and the goals of the OnTrackNY program;

• Provides supportive therapy;

• Develops and modifies treatment using a shared decision-making process

• Works with participants and family for transition from the team to other services and support, and ensures stable links at discharge.

• Serves as liaison between team and (host agency name here) to ensure adherence to the coordinated specialty care model in the contest of agency name protocols and policies.

• Ensures staff attendance at required OnTrack NY trainings and consultation calls, and completion of additional OnTrackNY related training modules in the Center for Practice Innovations' Learning Management System (LMS)

Required Qualifications:

• Licensed Masters or Ph.D. in an appropriate field (social work, psychology, mental health counseling)

Preferred Qualifications

• Training and experience working with adolescents and/or young adults with serious mental illness.

• Experience in community-based mental health services

• Compensation range from 120K to 170K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits

Salary Disclosure Information:

Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialties, historical productivity, historical collections, and hospital/community need. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range. The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.

Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:

Alex Cano

Executive Director Physician Recruitment

Mount Sinai Health System

Alex.cano@mountsinai.org

Employer Description

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."

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