Clinical Team Leader

About the Role

Achieve Behavioral Health is hiring a senior clinical leader to build a new 68-capacity Adult Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team in Rockland County, NY. This is a ground-up program launch for a proven clinician-leader, not a first leadership position. Achieve is one of New York's original CCBHC demonstration sites, a 650-person organization serving over 5,300 people annually across Rockland and Orange Counties since 1981.

Key advantages of the role:

• Build the program from the ground up, including recruiting the team and shaping policies, workflows, and culture
• Address a documented need: OMH identified Rockland County requires more ACT capacity
• Full organizational backing, including executive clinical leadership, fiscal/HR/compliance support, vehicles, field technology, and ACT Institute training

Responsibilities

The Team Leader will serve as a practicing clinician, clinical supervisor, and administrator, splitting time roughly 50/50 between direct care and supervisory/administrative work. ACT is an evidence-based, mobile, team-based model serving adults with serious mental illness who haven't been well served by office-based care; at least 80% of contacts occur in the community.

• Lead a multidisciplinary team of ~9 (nursing, substance use, vocational, family, and peer specialists plus a psychiatric provider), maintaining fidelity to the OMH ACT model and a 10:1 participant-to-staff ratio
• Facilitate the Daily Morning Meeting; provide individual and field-based supervision grounded in evidence-based practice
• Build referral relationships with SPOA, hospitals, and community partners; manage a measured admission pace to full census
• Monitor adherence for participants under court-ordered AOT and coordinate with the county AOT team
• Oversee documentation quality, CAIRS reporting, chart audits, and the annual fidelity self-assessment; use PSYCKES and program data to drive quality improvement
• Ensure 24/7 clinical consultation coverage and share in the team's rotating on-call schedule

Requirements

• Master's degree with current NYS licensure (LCSW, LMSW, LMHC, etc.); OR NYS-licensed RN; OR licensed physician
• 5+ years serving adults with serious mental illness, including 2+ years of supervisory experience
• Experience on a multidisciplinary community-based team (e.g., ACT, AOT, mobile crisis, intensive care management)
• Demonstrated competency in evidence-based practices such as motivational interviewing, harm reduction, and trauma-informed care
• Valid driver's license (agency vehicles provided); pre-employment clearances required, including fingerprinting and NYS Justice Center Staff Exclusion List check

Strong Preference For: Prior ACT team experience, ideally as a Team Leader, Assistant Team Leader, or senior clinician, and program start-up or new service implementation experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, life, retirement, and PTO
• Full ACT Institute training support

Pay

Salary of $95,000–$105,000, commensurate with experience.