Team Leader - Living Room - 3rd Shift
About this role
When someone is experiencing a mental health crisis, the Living Room provides a welcoming, community-based alternative to the emergency room. As Team Leader, you will guide a multidisciplinary team that delivers compassionate, recovery-oriented support in a calm and supportive environment.
What You'll Do:
- Provide day-to-day leadership, supervision, and coaching for Living Room staff.
- Ensure guests receive safe, welcoming, and person-centered crisis support services.
- Oversee intake, assessment, referral, and case management processes.
- Support staff in delivering evidence-based crisis intervention and recovery-focused services.
- Collaborate with community partners, referral sources, and natural supports to promote successful outcomes.
- Monitor documentation, program data, compliance, and quality standards.
- Facilitate team meetings, case consultations, training, and professional development activities.
- Conduct performance evaluations and participate in hiring and staff development initiatives.
- Partner with the Program Director to maintain a safe, effective, and recovery-oriented program environment.
Schedule: 3rd Shift, Monday through Friday, 11:00 pm to 7:30 a.m.
Qualifications:
Required
- Master's degree in Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or a related behavioral health field.
- 1-2 years of clinical experience.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency with electronic health records and standard computer applications.
Preferred
- Leadership or supervisory experience.
- CADC and/or CRSS certification.
- Lived experience with mental health recovery.
What sets Thresholds Apart:
- Competitive pay - Salary Range: $71,900.00 - $74,900.00 annually
- Based on supervisory experience and licensure
- Generous PTO (9 federal holidays, 8 days of sick leave, 15-22 days personal and vacation)
- Dental insurance, vision insurance, choice of 4 medical insurance plans
- 403(b) retirement plan with 3% employer match
- Robust employee assistance program (EAP)
- Mileage reimbursement
- Cell phone reimbursement (up to $50/month)
- Public service loan forgiveness
- Supervision for clinical licensure at no cost (LSW, LCSW, LPC, LCPC)
- Reimbursement for professional licensure and license renewal
Thresholds is a mission-driven agency with a deep commitment to fostering an environment where all feel valued and respected, a place where every employee can be themselves, thrive, and support the agency’s mission. Click here to learn more.
One of the oldest and largest community mental health organizations in Illinois, we pride ourselves in being a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace and one of Chicago’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For, several years in a row.
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Company at a glance
Thresholds provides healthcare, housing, and hope for thousands of persons with mental health and substance use conditions in Illinois each year. Through care, employment, advocacy, and housing, Thresholds assists and inspires people to reclaim their lives.
Thresholds is one of the oldest and largest providers of recovery services for persons with mental health and substance use conditions in Illinois. We offer 30 innovative programs at more than 75 locations throughout Chicago, the adjacent suburbs, and four surrounding counties. Services include assertive outreach, case management, housing, employment, education, psychiatry, primary care, substance use treatment, and research.
Thresholds’ staff meets people where they are – out in the community. Offering services in a community-based setting makes them more accessible and effective and lessens the social exclusion that is often present in the lives of persons living with mental illnesses and substance use conditions. This allows our staff and clients to work on skills, clinical interventions, and recovery that allows them to live independent lives in their own neighborhoods
Our clients are all unique – coming from vastly different backgrounds and arriving with different needs, talents, and hopes. Each client works with our staff to set their own specific short-term goals and objectives, based on their needs, desires, and level of self-sufficiency. Recovery from mental illnesses and substance use is possible. Recovery is a process of finding and living a satisfying and meaningful life, as one defines it for oneself. We assist our clients as they work to reclaim a positive sense of self, and discover their own potential, gifts, and skills.
Top Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Sick Leave
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Medical Insurance
- 403(b) Retirement Plan
- Employer Match
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mileage Reimbursement
- Cell Phone Reimbursement
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness
- Clinical Licensure Supervision
- Professional Licensure Reimbursement
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