PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES MANAGER F-SES - 64028483

Requisition No: 855684 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES MANAGER F-SES - 64028483

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 64028483 

Salary:  $85,000-$89,500 

Posting Closing Date: 07/09/2025 

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Thank you for your interest in career opportunities with the Florida Department of Health – Manatee. If you are looking to establish a successful career in Public Health, you have come to the right place.  Many of our innovative and successful health programs are recognized throughout Florida.  We hope you decide to join our team!  Applicants will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.

Open Competitive

Your Specific Responsibilities:

This position spends the majority of the time engaged in supervisory responsibilities. This includes communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees in addition to planning and directing employees' work. The incumbent has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees or effectively recommend such action. The incumbent will also be required to develop performance expectations, meet with staff regularly to discuss performance, complete performance reviews, maintain vacation and work schedules, ensuring proper coverage, and complete timesheets.

  The incumbent is part of a global public health organization and is expected to support the Florida Department of Health in Manatee County in its mission to protect, promote and improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county and community efforts and its vision to be the Healthiest State in the Nation.  Furthermore, the incumbent is expected to incorporate the agency values of Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Responsiveness and Excellence in all aspects of their work.     

This is a senior leadership position responsible for the Clinical Services division, including Family Planning, Immunizations, Prevention and Wellness, Laboratory, Prescription Assistance and Medications, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Tuberculosis, HIV Outreach, School Health, Intake, and Registration and Medical Records.  This includes planning and directing the work in the division and communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating supervisors and employees.  The incumbent will recommend to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees. The incumbent is responsible for compliance with all Performance Management Council checklist activities, including developing performance expectations, meeting with staff regularly to discuss performance, completing monthly or quarterly performance coaching sessions, completing and/or reviewing annual performance appraisals, ensuring fair distribution of workloads, maintaining vacation and work schedules to ensure proper coverage, huddles and staff meetings, and ensuring completion of administrative documents such as  timesheets and EARS.

Specific tasks include:

Employee Performance Management:  Managing performance for direct reports, including recruitment and selection, onboarding new employees, setting SMART performance expectations, planning and directing work, holding monthly feedback and coaching sessions with new employees and quarterly with all employees, approving leave, holding huddles and staff meetings, and taking disciplinary action as appropriate.  Ensuring that direct report supervisors are managing employee performance according to established procedures, coaching and developing future leaders and rounding on division employees according to established schedules.

Capability and Capacity Management:  Assessing and managing workforce capability and capacity to ensure the ability to meet customer and programmatic demands and ensure equitable distribution of work.  This will be accomplished through monitoring customer and programmatic workload demands (over time), assessing staffing levels and staff competencies, ensuring positions are filled in a timely manner, ensuring cross-training for critical functions, attending L4 budget meetings, and ensuring redistribution of duties as needed to meet fluctuating workload demands.

Organizational Management:  Ensuring effectiveness and accountability for all key performance indicators (KPIs) within the Clinical Services Division as well as all DOH-Manatee organizational level KPIs.  Regularly monitor performance, lead or oversee improvement efforts for identified priorities, working with staff to identify root cause, planning, implementing and monitoring solutions, validating achievement of desired results, and standardizing solutions to ensure performance is sustained. Responsible for monitoring compliance of each component of health care services using established quality assurance tools.  Participates in actions to ensure that quality of services and efficiency of operations are in conformity with departmental policy standards.  Responsible for creating, revising and maintaining departmental policy standards.  Revises monitoring tools as needed to achieve quality, effectiveness, efficiency, and cost efficient health care services.  Responsible for monitoring compliance within the clinic health service programs ensuring that programs are following program guidelines, rules, policies and law. Assures quality customer service is provided to clients and addresses any issues\concerns that may arise.  Maintains the clinic scorecard, including collecting and validating data from various electronic databases and from designated individuals.

Budget and Revenue Management: Responsible for managing the Division’s revenue and expenditures to ensure a balanced budget.

Stakeholder Partnerships:  Engages in partnerships within the county, region, and state to protect and promote public health. This includes but is not limited to engagement in coalitions, advisory boards, consortia, work groups and task forces, etc. 

Preparedness and Response:  Ensures that plans and procedures are in place and employees are prepared to serve in response roles.  Serves in Incident Command during DOH-Manatee activations.  Acts in conjunction with Nursing Director to ensure appropriate staffing at Special Needs Shelters when activated. 

Performs Other duties as assigned

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

•       Ability to use Microsoft office products including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Access and Outlook.

•       Must be able to travel out of town.

•       Knowledge of health care principles and practices.

•       Knowledge of methods of compiling, organizing and analyzing data.

•       Knowledge of the principles and practices of supervision or administration.

•       Ability to conduct health investigations.

•       Ability to utilize problem-solving techniques.

•       Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures.

•       Ability to supervise people.

•       Ability to provide training to others.

•       Ability to prioritize workload.

•       Ability to develop various reports.

•       Ability to manage a health services program.

•       Ability to identify, plan and develop resources for a health services program.

•       Ability to assess budgetary needs.

•       Ability to formulate policies and procedures.

•       Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

•       Ability to communicate effectively.

•       Ability to plan, organize and direct health services program activities.

Qualifications:

• Valid Florida Driver’s License
• Masters Degree Preferred

Florida Department of Health Mission, Vision, and Values: 

Mission:

To protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county & community efforts.

Vision:

To be the Healthiest State in the Nation.

Values:

I nnovation: We search for creative solutions and manage resources wisely.

C ollaboration: We use teamwork to achieve common goals & solve problems.

A ccountability: We perform with integrity & respect.

R esponsiveness: We achieve our mission by serving our customers & engaging our partners.

E xcellence: We promote quality outcomes through learning & continuous performance improvement.

Where You Will Work:

Manatee County Health Department

The Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:

Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including:

• Annual and Sick Leave benefits;
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year;
• State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options;
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions

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• Flexible Spending Accounts;
• Tuition waivers;
• And more!

For a more complete list of benefits, including monthly costs, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com.

Please be advised:

Your responses to qualifying questions for this position must be verifiable by documentation provided through the electronic application process.  

This position requires a security background check and/or drug screening and participation in direct deposit. Any misrepresentations or omissions will disqualify you from employment consideration. Note: You will be required to provide your Social Security Number (SSN) in order to conduct this background check Successful completion of a drug test is a condition of employment for safety-sensitive positions.

Male applicants born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion unless they are registered with the Selective Services System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS. For more information, please visit the SSS website: http://www.sss.gov 

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 canceled, suspended or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement. 

The successful candidate will be required to complete the Form I-9 and that information will be verified using the E-Verify system.  E-Verify is operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration to verify employment eligibility.   

Incumbents may be required to perform emergency duty before, during, and/or beyond normal work hours or days.

All Florida Department of Health positions require the incumbent to be able to learn and communicate effectively, orally and in writing, in English. Applicants who do not meet this requirement will not be considered.  

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

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-877-562-7287). 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 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act. 

Florida has the third largest population of veterans in the nation with more than 1.5 million service men and women.  The Florida Department of Health (department) is committed to serving members of the United States Armed Forces, veterans and their families by encouraging them to apply for vacancies that fit their area of knowledge and/or expertise.  Through the Department's VALOR program, which expedites licensing for military veterans, the Department also waives initial licensing and application fees for military veterans who apply for a health care professional license within 60 months of an honorable discharge. These initiatives help ensure that the transition from military service into the workforce is as smooth as possible and reflects our appreciation for the dedication devoted to protecting our country.   

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 (1-866-663-4735). 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 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.