HUMAN SERVICES COUNSELOR SUPV - SES - 64084081

Requisition No: 849675 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: HUMAN SERVICES COUNSELOR SUPV - SES - 64084081

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 64084081 

Salary:  $43,500.00 

Posting Closing Date: 04/18/2025 

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Job posting category (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.

Supervision:

Supervises direct reports including motivation, training, providing guidance, and direction. Assists in training new employees on all aspects of their position and conducts assessments for newly hired employees prior to certification. Ensures that all staff receive DOH, DOH-Putnam, Healthy Families and any other local trainings as required in the Healthy Families grant contract. Provides professional and skill development as required by Health Families Guidelines.

Develops expectations and meets with staff regularly to discuss performance, complete performance reviews, and discipline action, if needed.  Directs and provides case management and other services, including shadowing home visits on a monthly basis, at minimum, to ensure that families participating in the program are receiving quality, effective services as specified in the Healthy Families Guidelines.

Monitors and evaluates the performance goals of the Family Support Worker staff. Conducts one-on-one supervisory meetings with each Family Support Worker for a minimum of 1.5 hours per week per each Family Support Worker. Provides direct/daily supervision of each Family Support Worker by making special assignments, assisting with case problems, planning schedules of activities, planning workloads and objectives and monitors deadlines and time utilizations in accordance with Healthy Families Guidelines.

Conducts record reviews and assists in the data collection system to ensure that records and outcome data are maintained according to the terms of the Healthy Families grant contract.

Provides back-up coverage for Family Support Workers who are behind or out on leave. Provides back-up to the Program Manager as needed. 

Functions as team leader, assists in conducting team meetings and provides daily support and crisis management. Initiates case conferences on clients involved with DCF and other community-based partners on a regular basis.

Participates in community meetings at least monthly as appropriate.

Maintains vacation and work schedules to ensure proper coverage and completes timesheets.  Completes time sheets, EARS and leave requests accurately and promptly.

Performs other duties as required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

A solid understanding and experience in managing staff and administrative experience in human services or related programs, including experience in quality improvement, supervising and motivating staff as well as providing support in stressful work environments, knowledge of infants and child development and parent- child attachment. Incumbent must have experience with family services that embrace the concepts of family-centered and strength-based service provision, knowledge of maternal-infant health, concepts of child abuse and neglect, and experience in providing services to families, and experience in home visitation with a strong background in prevention services to the 0-3 age population.

Qualifications:

Minimum - a bachelor’s degree in a human services field from an accredited college 

Preferred - Speaks Spanish, a bachelor’s degree in a Human Services field from an accredited college and one year experience working with children and families in a prevention service.

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:

FDOH-Putnam County

2801 Kennedy St.

Palatka, Fl. 32177

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

(For more information, please click www.myfrs.com);

• 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.