regional samh director

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Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: REGIONAL SAMH DIRECTOR

Pay Plan: SES

Position Number:

Salary: $2, $3,250 Bi-weekly

Posting Closing Date: 07/22/2024

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The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state of Florida's social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency's mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

Within DCF, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) Program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. The Office of SAMH is statutorily responsible for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of a comprehensive statewide system of care for the prevention, treatment, and recovery of children and adults with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders.

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION RESPONSES TO THE QUALIFYING QUESTIONS ARE REQUIRED AND MUST BE VERIFIABLE BASED ON YOUR SUBMITTED APPLICATION.

THIS IS NOT A TELEWORK POSITION. CANDIDATE WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK IN THE NORTHEAST REGIONAL OFFICE.

This is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Regional Director for the Northeast Regional Office. This position will collaborate with each section within the program office and be required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities and should be extraordinarily detail oriented. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Regional Director is a highly responsible position who is tasked with being a visionary leader, strategic thinker and goals and outcome-oriented leader. This position is responsbile for providing oversight and management of the regional behavioral health system of care. The incumbent is required to focus on service delivery, operational improvement, efficiency, stakeholder engagement and innovation.

• The SAMH Regional Program Director duties and responsibilities include: Provide oversight for the management and administration of all regional SAMH day to day operations.
• Ensure the administration of all programs in accordance with agency plans, policies and guidelines.
• Lead the evaluation, development, planning, implementation and coordination of substance abuse and mental health services toensure service delivery is consistent with all applicable laws, rules, policy, procedures and contractual agreements.
• Provide oversight for the regional compliance monitoring actiities; ensure technical assistance and trainng is provided related to SAMH programs.
• Implement Department rules and procedures and ensure staff are provided training regarding Departmental procedures and rules, and conducts reviews of staff compliance with rules and procedures.
• Lead the identification and assessment of regional program needs and make recommendations to senior leadership.
• Serve as the Department's liaison with regional program partners, manage stakeholder engagement and assigned initiatives to support and enhance behvioral health services designed to strengthen families and coordinate services provided by the Department in the Region with outside agencies, both public and private.
• Ensure compliance with data collection protocols and requirements; Conduct routine analyses on state and federal performance indicators for SAMH services; use data to drive data-informed decisions and the formulation of program recommendations.
• Lead recruitment, hiring and retention efforts for all regional SAMH staff; provide daily supervision of assigned team; ensure regional staff are managed in accordance with the Department policies and procedures; maintain staffing levels to ensure operational integrity.
• Oversees innovaton and quality improvement initiatives.
• Implements and executes emergency planning activities for the program and geographical areas
• Perform other duties as assigned.

An ideal candidate will:

• Be creative, flexible, innovative, and research oriented;
• Possess excellent research and writing skills;
• Have experience in designing and executing research to develop policy analyses, program evaluations, management reviews, budget analyses, and similar technical reviews;
• Understand and appreciate the principles of governmental organization, budgeting, and accountability;
• Have the ability to succeed both with and without extensive direction;
• Move cost-saving and cost-effective health policy forward; and
• Value SAMH's vision and have the ability to execute projects, assignments, and updates timely and accurately within a fast-paced environment.

All applicants must ensure that all employment and detailed information about work experience is listed on their applicant profile and/or resume (including dates of service, reason for leaving, military service, self-employment, job-related volunteer work, internships, etc.) and that gaps in employment are explained. Applicants who do not provide all information necessary to meet the minimum requirements will not be considered for this position.

Salary is negotiable depending on experience and demonstrated successful management of complex projects and initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the position:

• Knowledge of the methods of data collection and analysis.
• Knowledge of basic management principles and practices.
• Ability to collect, evaluate and analyze data to develop alternative recommendations, solve problems, document work and other activities relating to the improvement of operational and management practices.
• Ability to organize data into a logical format for presentation in reports, documents and other written materials.
• Ability to conduct fact-finding research.
• Ability to utilize problem-solving techniques.
• Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to operational and management analysis activities.
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to travel with or without accommodations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Four years of experience supervising or serving in a leadership role.
• Four years of experience implementing and managing complex projects.
• A master's degree from a college or university and four years of professional clinical and or non-clinical experience in health care, program planning, program research, program evaluation is preferred.
• Professional experience as described above can substitute on a year-for-year basis for the preferred college education.

Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:

• Health insurance
• Life insurance; $25,000 policy is free plus option to purchase additional life insurance
• Dental, vision and supplemental insurance
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions
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• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year;
• Flexible Spending Accounts;
• Opportunities for career advancement;
• Tuition waiver for public college courses;
• And more

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DCF EMPLOYMENT DISCLOSURES

US CITIZEN REQUIREMENT Only US citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers will be hired.

SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM REGISTRATION All selected male candidates born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion into an authorized position unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS). Verification of Selective Service registration will be conducted prior to hire. For more information, please visit the SSS website:

RETIREE NOTICE If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be suspended or voided, and you required to repay all benefits received depending upon the date of your retirement.

BACKGROUND SCREENING It is the policy of the Florida Department of Children and Families that any applicant being considered for employment must successfully complete a State and National criminal history check as a condition of employment before beginning employment, and, if applicable, also be screened in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, F.S., and Chapter 408, F.S. No applicant may begin employment until the background screening results are received, reviewed for any disqualifying offenses, and approved by the Agency. Background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for State and Federal criminal records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and may include local criminal history checks through local law enforcement agencies.

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The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section , F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.