Description

Provides oversight and leadership to a Community Support Team providing mental health services to chronically homeless individuals. Services include attending to the psychosocial, health, financial, recreational, nutritional, and housing needs of all family members.

Job duties include but are not limited to: 

• Assuming a leadership role within a Community Support Team providing mental health case management services to formerly homeless individuals residing in scattered site housing. 
• Must have the ability to relate appropriately and effectively with participants and families, to other staff and to personnel of other community agencies. 
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships; ability to work independently and as a member of an interdisciplinary team. 
• Implementation of evidence-based practices. Models evidence-based practices to entire team. 
• Ensuring that a minimum of 60% of services are provided in a natural setting. 
• Conducting assessments of participant functioning, especially as it relates to physical health, mental illness and substance use. 
• Identifying participant needs, including barriers to receiving appropriate services and assisting with effective problem solving to address issues. 
• Actively gathering participant information and assesses the need for service, makes recommendations for treatment, identifies and investigates existing natural resources and supports, explains options available to the participant, and assists in the application process. 
• Actively leads, oversees, and participates in the activities of team staff members providing outreach, case management, social, vocational, education, physical well-being, residential services and other services and supports. 
• Meets required productivity targets and completes all documentation within assigned time frames. Monitors and coaches' staff on meeting productivity measures. 
• Maintains the quality, validity and confidentiality of individual case records according to Medicaid standards, Rule 132/140 regulations and agency policies and procedures. 
• Assures that all assigned documentation is completed accurately, on time and is organized in a systematic manner. 
• Assists with special tasks as assigned, including but not limited to representing the agency at meetings, conferences, supervising students/interns, orienting and training new staff. 
• Participates in the hiring sequence of the agency and make recommendations on the hiring or termination of team staff. 
• Providing service planning, coordination, and implementation of services needed. 
• Providing information, linkage, referral and advocacy for participants with agencies in the community, including crises intervention services when needed. 
• Working with participants to increase their skills and income, improve their self-determination, and maintain residential stability. 
• Reporting all incidents of abuse, and/or neglect as required by state law. 
• Follows agency standards regarding clinical supervision. 
• Conduct weekly Team meetings, and bi-weekly individual supervision. 
• Model professional behaviors for Staff. 
• Continue to attend outside Clinical Education Trainings. 
• Completing random file audits on a monthly basis. 
• Participate in quarterly Case Reviews. 
• Reports to the Clinical Director 

Qualifications

Requirements: Master's degree in social work or a related field. Must have a valid Illinois License (LCPC, or LCSW) or be eligible for licensure. Must have a vehicle and insurance. Familiarity with Harm Reduction and Housing First. Computer literacy.