REHABILITATION THERAP SUPV - SES - 60074393

Requisition No: 830134 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: REHABILITATION THERAP SUPV - SES - 60074393

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 60074393 

Salary:  Starting at $1,368.00 Bi-Weekly 

Posting Closing Date: 12/30/2024 

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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.

Northeast Florida State Hospital (NEFSH) is a 613-bed, licensed mental health treatment facility that provides person-centered services to adults suffering from severe and persistent mental illness. The hospital, located in Macclenny, was established in 1959 and is the largest state operated civil treatment facility. 

NORTHEAST 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 a Rehabilitation Therapist Supervisor – SES at the Northeast Florida State Hospital. 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:

• Ensure optimum customer satisfaction by preparing work schedules and assignments of subordinates. 
• Approves time and attendance, daily work records and leave requests. 
• Sets performance standards, evaluates, and prepares performance evaluations. Recommends hiring, termination, and promotion of employees.
• Counsels subordinates and takes appropriate disciplinary action in accordance with higher authority directives. 
• Provides on the job training and schedules appropriate training in coordination with the Staff Development and Training Department.
• Ensures professional staff time is spent primarily in the delivery of treatment services by monitoring progress and maintaining records of staff and the people we serve progress and participates in the training and research related to program development.
• Complies, organizes, and analyzes data for services provided by subordinates. 
• Submits reports, assignments and data on time.
• Manages assigned buildings ensures engineering and housekeeping issues are addressed.
• Develops and implement a comprehensive, outcome oriented management system by designing, coordinating, and supervising rehabilitation therapy programs which are designed to assist mentally ill individuals in obtaining their long term views in terms of learning, living, working, and recreation.
• Ensure that individuals receive treatment services as prescribed by consulting and planning with the interdisciplinary team members in order to establish goals, programs and individual therapeutic rehabilitation treatment for the people we serve.
• Manages financial activities, prepares Annual Budgets for areas of responsibility, monitors requests for money and travel, and submits requests for special needs or activities.
• Ensures professional staff time is spent primarily in the delivery of treatment services by monitoring progress and maintaining records of staff and the people we serve progress and participates in the training and research related to program development.
• Performs other related duties as assigned. 
• Will Operate a 15 passenger vehicle to transport persons served in community outings.
• Serves on various hospital committees, workgroups and projects as assigned.
• Attends and participates in various meetings, including Community Council; conducts monthly program meetings with staff, and other meetings as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the position:

• Knowledge of the principles and practices of one of the allied health field disciplines or one of the rehabilitative sciences.
• Ability to supervise people.
• Ability to oversee educational, vocational or rehabilitation therapy programs.
• Ability to determine work priorities, assign work and ensure proper completion of work assignments.
• Ability to write evaluation and progress reports.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in one of the following areas to be considered for the position: Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences, Rehabilitation Sciences, Psychology, Counseling, Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Music Education, Physical Education with course work Adaptive Physical Education, Vocational Education, Dance Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Leisure studies with course work in Therapeutic Recreation, or Horticulture Therapy.
• Two years’ experience supervising others.

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.