Do you have a passion for leading community-based mental health services and helping individuals with severe and persistent mental illness build stable, meaningful lives within their communities? At Easterseals PORT Health (ESPH), our mission is rooted in empowering individuals and strengthening communities.
We are seeking a compassionate, knowledgeable, and driven ACT Team Lead / Licensed Mental Health Therapist to lead our Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT). In this leadership role, you will guide a multidisciplinary team dedicated to delivering person-centered behavioral health services directly in the community while supporting individuals on their path toward recovery, independence, and stability.
This isn’t just a leadership role — you will influence change and shape futures for both the individuals we serve and the clinical professionals you support every day.
Your Role in Our Mission
As an ACT Team Lead / Licensed Mental Health Therapist, you will provide leadership for the ACT Team while maintaining a hands-on role in service delivery. You will oversee daily team operations, provide clinical supervision and mentorship to staff, support quality and compliance standards, and collaborate closely with the Psychiatric Care Provider to ensure individuals receive high-quality, ethical, and recovery-oriented care.
You will also participate in intake assessments, person-centered planning, crisis response, and direct community-based therapeutic services for a select group of individuals receiving ACT services. This role combines leadership, collaboration, and direct impact—allowing you to model best practices while supporting staff development and individual recovery outcomes.
Services are delivered where individuals need them most, including homes, shelters, hospitals, and community settings throughout the region.
What You'll Do
Why Join Us?
As a part of our mission, we help our team members embrace their potential, build resilience, and thrive! You will benefit from ongoing professional growth and development as you work alongside leaders of clinical excellence in mental health and substance use services that care about your success.
We also offer a full benefits package for benefits-eligible positions.
Compensation & Benefits
What We’re Looking For
To join our team as an ACT Team Lead / Licensed Mental Health Therapist, you must have a passion for helping individuals with severe and persistent mental illness thrive within their communities while also leading and supporting a high-performing clinical team.
We also require:
Ready to Apply?
Join a team where work isn’t just something you do — it’s a purpose. Bring your expertise to a mission that matters.Apply now at www.eastersealsPORT.com or send your resume to recruiter@eastersealsPORT.com
**Voted Raleigh’s Best Nonprofit Organization and Raleigh’s Best Mental Health Services two years in a row!**
About Easterseals PORT Health
Easterseals PORT Health is a trustworthy and compassionate partner, providing exceptional services in disability, mental health, and substance use to help our neighbors live their best lives. Purpose, dedication, and empathy drive our in-person and telehealth service delivery. Our 2,600-member team provides more than 10.2 million hours of meaningful support to 40,200 kids, adults, and families in 11,000 home, facility, and community locations across North Carolina and Virginia.
Easterseals PORT Health is an Inclusive Culture, Different Voices, Embracing Potential, Authentic Self, and Learning and Growing (IDEAL) organization.
Applicants of all abilities are encouraged to apply!
Easterseals PORT Health is a trustworthy, compassionate partner providing disability, behavioral health and addiction treatment services to help our neighbors live their best lives. Our diverse 2,600 team members provide meaningful support to 40,200 kids, adults and families in 11,000 home, facility and community locations across North Carolina and Virginia.
Our working environment supports employee and client health with a "no tobacco" use policy (tobacco free and smoke free) in all offices, client facilities, properties and agency vehicles.
We believe that by leveraging the unique strengths and perspectives of our workforce, we can advance our just cause, while building a healthy, sustainable organization. That’s why we listen, seek to understand and act to make ESPH an Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Authentic & Learning (IDEAL) organization.
Applicants of all abilities are encouraged to apply!
