SENIOR PHYSICIAN - PRIMARY CARE - 60064462

Requisition No: 796026 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: SENIOR PHYSICIAN - PRIMARY CARE - 60064462

Position Number: 60064462 

Salary:  $160,000.10 Annually 

Posting Closing Date: 12/31/2024 

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.

Florida State Hospital (FSH) is a mental health treatment facility owned and operated by the State of Florida and is part of the Department of Children and Families. The department’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.”

FLORIDA STATE HOSPITAL IS A TOBACCO FREE FACILITY.

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

This is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as Senior Physician – Primary Care. This position will collaborate with each section within the state facilities and be required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities and should be extraordinarily detail oriented. 

Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Evaluates patients in the Emergency Room providing care ranging from routine or minor to critical, i.e., cardiac arrest and severe head trauma.  Patients that are best handled in general referral hospitals are stabilized first, then transferred after consultation with the appropriate specialist.
• Admits patients to the medical ward after doing comprehensive evaluations.
• Acts as consultant in problematic cases in other units.
• Leads the Code Blue Team in treating critically ill patients hospital-wide.
• Teaches nursing and ancillary staff the proper use of medical equipment, treatment procedures and general health care.Serves as active member of different hospital medical committees.
• Screens for potential health problems.
• Performs physical examinations on new employees.
• Provides treatment of patients in the medical ward until discharge criteria are satisfactory, write transfer summaries for patients discharged from the medical unit.
• Responds to issues both medical and psychiatric in the entire facility, initiates and completes all restraint and seclusion requirements.
• Provides orders for emergency treatment orders and documents outcomes.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by supervisor. 
• The applicant selected to fill this position shall be required to submit to a pre-employment medical examination. This position requires lifting, pulling and squatting. Duties of this position require the incumbent to be knowledgeable of and utilize the principles of Total Quality Management. The incumbent must be certified in CPR and be able to perform the procedure proficiently.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the position:

• Demonstrates diagnostic competence by utilizing appropriate physical and psychiatric examinations based on current ICD 9/DSM IV criteria within the time frames and guidelines specified in the DCF/FSH policies. 
• Chooses treatment based on current National Standards of Medical and Psychiatric care, on admission and when indicated by changes in the resident’s condition.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Licensure as a physician pursuant to Chapter 458, Florida Statutes, and two years of post-licensure professional experience in the practice of medicine; or
• Licensure as an osteopathic physician pursuant to Chapter 459, Florida Statutes, and two years of post-licensure professional experience in the practice of osteopathic medicine; or
• Certification by a recognized board in a medical specialty area can substitute for the required experience.

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
  • (For more information, please click www.myfrs.com)
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Opportunities for career advancement
• Tuition waiver for public college courses
• And more!

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

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: http://www.sss.gov.

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.

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.