BEHAVIORAL ANALYST - F/C - 60032955

Requisition No: 804589 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: BEHAVIORAL ANALYST - F/C - 60032955

Position Number: 60032955 

Salary:  $2,458.44 Bi-Weekly 

Posting Closing Date: 10/31/2024 

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.

North Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center (NFETC) is a 216 bed, all male, forensic, mental health rehabilitation facility. The Center is located in northeast Gainesville, Florida on 639 picturesque acres with regular sightings of deer, turkey, and other wildlife. NFETC employs a variety of entry level to leadership positions including food service, maintenance, direct care, nurses, counselors, rehab therapists, medical doctors, security, psychiatrists, and psychologists.

 

NORTH FLORIDA EVALUATION AND TREATMENT FACILITY 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 Behavioral Analyst F/C. 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:

• Produces psychological evaluations on assigned patients that may include a record review and assessment of cognitive functioning, suicide risk factors, trauma risk factors, violence risk factors, malingering, and competency. Enter competency results in the patient system database and update logs.
• Develops clinical treatment programs such as group, behavioral modification program, and individual therapy/treatment on selected persons served, when applicable. Consults with the Recovery Team, as needed, in the formulation of diagnosis, needed psychological assessment, and recovery plan.
•  Reviews treatment progress of persons served with the Recovery Treatment Team at prescribed intervals for selected patients. Consults with the Recovery Team, as needed, in the formulation of diagnosis, needed psychological assessment, and recovery plan.
• Addresses consultations requests from psychiatry for assigned patients. Serves on at least one committee as assigned by the lead or the director of the department. Is a core member of the Post Event Review Team (PERT).
• Addresses consultation requests from psychiatry for assigned patients to include personality and neuro-psychological screeners. Provides agency personnel with information relating to general and clinical aspects of ps