Mental Health Team Lead, C3
SUMMARY
Under the supervision of the Program Manager, the Mental Health Team Lead provides leadership and clinical support to a small team of case managers, as well as provides therapeutic engagement and intensive case management to a caseload of street homeless clients with severe persistent mental illness. The Team Lead assists their team in outreaching and assessing the highest need chronically homeless individuals, and is responsible for identifying, engaging, and connecting to street medicine/psychiatry, and long-term providers. The Team Lead will focus specifically on the Skid Row area of Downtown Los Angeles, and will provide emergency and ongoing risk assessment, linkages to emergency care, medical and mental health services, and housing. The Mental Health Team Lead provides clinical training and support for team members, as well as fosters a supportive team setting for growth. Clinical Team Lead will model competence in clinical and safety assessment, trauma-informed interventions, and implement a harm reduction approach to meet the needs of those living with severe mental illness, severe medical disorders, and high-risk substance use disorders. The Team Lead is also responsible for maintaining the highest quality services and efficiency of team operations including accurate, and timely referrals and documentation to meet outcome measures.
The C3 outreach program is part of a large-scale street-based engagement effort in the Metro Los Angeles Area (Service Area 4). The goal of C3 is to create a countywide network of multidisciplinary, integrated street-based teams to identify, engage, and connect, or re-connect homeless individuals to interim and/or permanent housing and supportive services.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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Work Environment
Responsibilities Common To All Agency Employees
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