BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONSULTANT SUPERVISOR - 60074518

Requisition No: 872976 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONSULTANT SUPERVISOR - 60074518

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 60074518 

Salary:  $75,000 - $80,000 annually 

Posting Closing Date: 04/17/2026 

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Job Title: Behavioral Health Consultant Supervisor – SES– 60074518

This position is a regional position and can be housed in the Miami, Florida.

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.  

Within SAMH, the Southern Regional Office staff ensure that individuals and families have timely access to prevention, treatment, and recovery support services across the region. They collaborate with local providers, community partners, and key stakeholders to identify service gaps, enhance resource availability, and promote continuity of care. The Southern Regional Office monitors program performance addresses barriers to service delivery and fosters cross-system collaboration to strengthen the regional behavioral health network and improve overall outcomes for the communities served. 

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 SOUTHERN REGIONAL OFFICE. 

This is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as a Behavioral Health Consultant Supervisor. 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.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:

• This is professional work supervising and directing employees. The primary duty of the incumbent in this position is to spend the majority of their time communicating with, motivating, training and evaluating employees, planning and directing their work; and having the authority to effectively recommend actions such as hire, transfer, suspend, layoff, promote, discharge, assign, and reward or discipline direct reports.
• Evaluates employees against established standards and takes appropriate actions when necessary (i.e. recognition, reward, corrective action, etc.).
• This position is a highly responsible and rewarding position in the Program Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) assisting the Manager of Regional Operations in administering and evaluating SAMH programs.
• This position plans, monitors and evaluates major treatment, services, or rehabilitative programming with most of the focus on child welfare integration.
• This position will work with multiple systems within the Behavioral Health continuum to assist with quality, service array, oversight, performance, and integration. This is supervisory work planning, monitoring, and administering the Northeast Region System of Care to ensure that the community mental health and substance abuse service delivery components operate in a coordinated, efficient manner for the benefit of the DCF, SAMH clients.
• This position exercises independent judgment in formulating policies and procedures which have significant impact on personnel, administration, and operations specifically targeting the Child Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programming and integration of that programming with Child Welfare operations.
• Serves as the oversight and assisting the manager in all matters of the DCF SAMH as it relates to Child Welfare integration programming and co-supervision of internal SAMH staff including such grant funded positions as Behavioral Health Consultants, Peers Specialists and other future integration efforts which produce internal staff within the SAMH department.

Emergency Response 

• In response to emergency events, the incumbent may be required to work irregular hours, to work more than 8 hours per day, to work extended periods (including weekends and holidays), to work at locations other than their official headquarters, and to perform duties in addition to those outlined in the position description.  Deploy to communities affected by natural disasters within 24-48 hours of impact to represent the organization to promote and implement post-disaster services. 
• Assess the impact, needs and assist with the development of a response strategy and goals for the impacted community and implement disaster response plans. 

• Coordinate psychological and mental health resources and services for individuals, first responders, and communities impacted by disasters.

• Provide critical information to the Regional Manager and Director of Regional Operations 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.
  • Knowledge/understanding of the impact of mental health conditions and substance use disorders on parenting ability and child safety.
  • Strong writing skills as evidenced by an ability to draft reports or presentations.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
  • Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and coordinate work assignments.
  • Ability to identify the nature or problems associated with access to treatment services.
  • Ability to supervise people.
  • Knowledge of the child welfare and behavioral health systems.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
  • Ability to determine work priorities, assign work, and ensure proper completion of work assignments.
  • Ability to organize data into logical format for presentation in reports, documents and other written materials.
  • Ability to collect, evaluate and analyze data to develop alternative recommendations, solve problems, document workflow and other activities relating to the improvement of management practices.
  • Ability to conduct fact-finding research.
  • Ability to solve problems and make decisions.
  • Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to management analysis activities.
  • Ability to work independently.

Minimum Qualifications: 

• A master's degree from a college or university
• Two years supervising or serving in a leadership role,
• Licensure in psychology, social work, mental health counseling, family and marriage therapy or closely related field.
• Three years of post-graduate experience treating mental health and/or substance use disorders.
• Valid Class E Driver License. 

Preference will be given to applicants who have: 

• Experience of the child welfare and behavioral health systems and knowledge related to the impact of behavioral health conditions on parenting capacity.
• Experience in substance abuse prevention, treatment, or recovery support service. 
• Experience coordinating community-based services for individuals or families. 
• Experience with motivational interviewing. 

Candidate Profile (application) Requirements: 

Candidate Profile (application) must be complete in its entirety.  

• Work History - entered with the most recent/current listed first: 

• Any and all State of Florida jobs 
• Any and all Florida University jobs 
• All periods of employment 
• Periods of unemployment 
• Gaps 3 months or more* 
• Education 
• Volunteer Experience 

• Include supervisor names and phone numbers including current place of employment. 

• *Gaps 3 months or more must be addressed – you will need to account for and explain any gaps in employment including unemployment. You can either list these in your application under Period of Employment or attach a word document listing your gaps. 
• Experience, education, training, knowledge, skills and/or abilities as well as responses to pre-qualifying questions must be verifiable to meet the minimum qualifications. 

• If claiming Right to First Interview, candidate MUST attach a copy of your official layoff letter when applying. This only applies to employees laid off from Career Service positions. 

If you experience problems applying online, please call the People First Service Center at (877) 562-7287.

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. 
• 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. 

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.