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title: 'Team Leader, Critical Time Intervention (CTI) at Scismic'
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# Team Leader, Critical Time Intervention (CTI) at Scismic

- **Company:** Scismic
- **Location:** New York City, NY
- **Compensation:** $97k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-11-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/scismic/453814ef-5bb7-47d0-b718-49c4b1e451b7

## Job description

Scismic is supporting the growth of a non-profit corporation that has been facilitating a wide range of support to people with mental illness for more than 45 years. They provide outreach and engagement, care coordination, peer support, supportive housing and rehabilitation to adults with serious mental illness, and promotes access to treatment, employment, and other supports and services according to an individualized plan that addresses a client’s strengths, needs, goals, and choices.

Position Summary We are looking for a Team Leader to build an interdisciplinary team, lead with a startup mindset, and create new frameworks for their team to serve vulnerable New Yorkers. Join us as Team Leader, Critical Time Intervention (CTI), where you'll oversee the operations and services of a new and dynamic program, ensuring it delivers life-changing results with precision and care.

Key Responsibilities:

- Ensures the delivery of program services with fidelity to the CTI Model and in compliance with OMH and Medicaid regulatory standards.
- Recruits and supervises program staff.
- Conducts initial and continuing staff training.
- Ensures the implementation of safety and emergency services.
- Liaises with partnered hospital systems to manage referrals and facilitate access to services.
- Manages outreach and engagement, admissions and discharges, assessment, case presentations, and team assignments.
- Oversees assessments and service planning to assure timely access to appropriate services.
- Ensures the documentation of program services in client charts and program records.
- Responds to inpatient and ER admission alerts and contacts medical providers/hospitals for admission/discharge information.
- Conducts quality assurance audits and activities to assess the effectiveness of services delivered, to ensure member charts & documentation are in compliance, and to ensure that quality services are being delivered to clients.
- Ensures required reporting to regulatory bodies and third-party payers.
- Certifies the eligibility for billing to third parties for program services rendered.
- Ensures the appropriate use of client service dollars by approving plans and expenditures.
- Convenes weekly team meetings ensuring that the entire caseload is reviewed, follow up activities are assigned and all
- requested follow up activities are conducted.
- Monitors phases of services and manages caseloads according to phases.
- Maintains and updates resource list for staff.
- Regularly updates supervisor on clients at risk, as well as personnel matters.
- Investigates incidents and reportable events.
- Ensures timely and accurate recording and reporting of data.
- Coordinate staff schedules and manage on-call requirements ensuring timely response to referrals and clinical events.
- Responsible for payroll reports, reviewing employee timesheets, monitoring hours worked and vacation time.
- Submits other reports as required.
- Is on call for emergencies.
- Duties as assigned by supervisor.

Key Qualifications:

- A Licensed Practitioner of the Healing Arts (LPHA) with 3–5 years of post-licensure experience working with individuals who have mental health, or co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, preferably with experience collaborating with hospital systems.
- Demonstrated competency in clinical documentation, motivational interviewing, stage-wise treatment, and motivational interviewing.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and strong leadership skills/
- Previous management and supervisory experience preferred.

## About Scismic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Scismic is a digital STEM ecosystem that uses explainable AI and skills-based matching to connect life science, deep tech, and manufacturing employers with qualified talent, while also providing workforce development tools for educators and economic organizations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (NIH-funded)
- **Headquarters**: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (with offices in Boston, London, and Singapore)
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Founders**: Dr. Danika Khong, PhD (CEO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: HR tech / talent platform for STEM (Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Deep Tech)
- **Target customers**: B2B (employers in pharma, biotech, medtech, AI/ML, robotics), B2C (STEM job seekers), B2G (economic development organizations, professional associations), B2E (universities and training providers)
- **Mission**: "Put the right scientists in the right roles to help drive innovation forward" and address the broken connection between academia and industry [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Scismic Connect**: AI-powered hiring platform for employers. Provides gender- and race-blind skills matching, guarantees 3 interview-ready candidates, 97% first-year retention, and free replacement if a hire leaves within 12 months. Reduces time-to-hire by 80% [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/employers)
- **Skills Locker**: Skills intelligence solution for education institutions. Maps curriculum to labor market demand, tracks emerging skills by region, and improves graduate employment outcomes [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/?hsLang=en)
- **SMARTBoard EDU**: White-label technology for economic development organizations and professional associations to build skills-first communities, map regional talent supply/demand, and coordinate multi-stakeholder initiatives [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/?hsLang=en)
- **Job Seeker Platform**: Free platform for STEM professionals to find jobs, receive personalized career pathway recommendations, and access upskilling opportunities [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/?hsLang=en)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 80,000 scientists and engineers screened; 8,000+ skills mapped (NIH-awarded taxonomy); 97% employee retention beyond 12 months [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/employers)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to reduce bias in candidate evaluation; also partners with economic development organizations and professional associations [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scismic-llc)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 9 employees (-22.2% YoY, -4 people) per LinkedIn; LinkedIn followers 11,609 (+18.9% yearly). The company is expanding into workforce development and education verticals with white-label solutions [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scismic-llc)

## Competitive Advantages
- **NIH-awarded skills-matching technology** that is gender- and race-blind, reducing bias in candidate screening
- **Specialized focus on STEM** (life sciences, manufacturing, deep tech) – not a generalist platform
- **Strong retention guarantees**: 97% first-year retention, free replacement within 12 months
- **Plug-and-play ecosystem** for multiple stakeholders (employers, educators, workforce boards) – not just a job board

## Strategic Focus
- **Skills-first hiring** – moving away from pedigree-based evaluation to verified skills data
- **Bridging the academia-industry gap** – helping translate STEM education into commercial innovation
- **Workforce development at scale** – white-label solutions for regional economic development and professional associations
- **Expanding education partnerships** – aligning curriculum with real-time labor market demand

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven team of PhD scientists and engineers who understand the rigor of research and the importance of talent in STEM. Rated 4.5/5.0 on LinkedIn (6 reviews) with high scores for Work-Life (4.7) and Culture (4.6), but lower for Compensation (2.4) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scismic-llc)
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Not explicitly stated; headquarters in Cambridge, MA with global offices (Boston, London, Singapore). Likely hybrid or remote-friendly given 9 employees across multiple countries.
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work on NIH-funded technology that directly impacts diversity and innovation in STEM. Small team offers high autonomy and impact. Focus on career development and upskilling for employees as well.
- **Engineering Culture**: Building explainable AI and skills-matching algorithms; team is composed of researchers, product innovators, and commercial strategists [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/about)

## Sources
1. [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/?hsLang=en) – Company homepage and ecosystem overview
2. [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/about) – About page, founders, mission, team
3. [scismic.com](https://scismic.com/employers) – Employer solutions and metrics
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scismic-llc) – LinkedIn company page, employee count, followers, reviews
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/scismic) – Built In profile, description

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