Team Leader

Join a Team That Changes Lives

For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we're here to create real change – helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives.

Now, we're looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives – including your own. You'll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters.

At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages
• Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay
• Paid On-the-Job Training
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth
• Flexible Schedules
• Retirement Savings Plan

Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today.

Elwyn is seeking a Team Leader to join the Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT). As the Team Leader, you are the team's clinical and administrative supervisor who also functions as a practicing clinician. The team leader, in conjunction with the team prescriber, is responsible for monitoring each client's clinical status and response to treatment and supervising staff delivery of clinical services to maintain a standard of service excellence and courteous, helpful, and respectful services to program clients.  

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Integrates the Prism Model for effective treatment of serious and persistent mental illness  into everyday practice and intervention.
• Provides person-centered, strength-based, trauma-informed care
• Ensures that clients receive effective, understandable, and respectful care that is provided in a manner compatible with client's cultural beliefs and practices and preferred language 
• Direct day-to-day clinical operations of the PACT team, including scheduling staff work hours to assure appropriate coverage, leading the daily organizational staff meetings and Community Service Plan (tx. plan) meetings; continuously evaluating the status of clients and doing appropriate planning and coordination of treatment activities to ensure immediate attention to changing needs.  
• Coordinates the admission (identifies/addresses any immediate needs or risks) process and treatment, rehabilitation, and support services of the program in coordination with the prescriber. Schedule the intake, develop and coordinate the Comprehensive Assessment and Community Service Plan; assigns the most appropriate staff to the ITT; overall supervision of the Comprehensive Assessment and Community Service Plan development.
• Directs and coordinates the client-centered Comprehensive Assessment of psychiatric history, mental status and diagnosis, physical and dental health, use of substances, education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living; and family structure and relationships 
• Introduces the client and the family to the team approach of Comprehensive Assessment and the Community Service Plan 
• Utilizes evidence-based assessment tools that support matching a client's needs to their services 
• Works with the team to complete a Comprehensive Assessment (within 30 days of admission) as an engagement tool and to understand and respect the client's views of the ways mental illness impacts their life and how they want to be supported in their process of recovery
• In partnership with the client and ITT, develops the Community Service Plan within seven days of the team finalizing the comprehensive assessment.
• Provides clinical supervision according to ELWYN PACT policy, including field supervision 
• Provides ongoing assessment of client's symptoms and response to treatment. Make appropriate changes in Community Service Plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior, which puts clients at risk. 
• Responsible for monitoring the team's training compliance 
• Participates in staff recruitment, interviewing (1:1 and as a team), on-boarding, orientation, and performance supervision.  
• Maintains PACT headquarters that are consistent with the PACT model 
• Monitors the program budget and utilization of program Contingency funds
• Oversees the EHR record-keeping compliance in accordance with ELWYN and PACT standards.
•  Monitors billing and payers, monitor other third-party insurers, and obtain