OPERATIONS & MGMT CONSULTANT I - SES - 60006975

Requisition No: 845789 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: OPERATIONS & MGMT CONSULTANT I - SES - 60006975

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 60006975 

Salary:  $39,320.81 to $80,556.18 Annually 

Posting Closing Date: 03/06/2025 

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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.

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 a Operations & Management Consultant – I - SES. 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:

• Investigates, assesses, analyzes and recommends operational policies and assists in the establishment of procedures, as required, to implement policies and achieve operational objectives regarding the recruitment, screening, selection and evaluation of candidates for the Food Service Department.
• Monitors operations to ensure Food Service meets the Florida State Hospital Total Quality Management Standards, the mission, vision, and other departmental standards, as well as statewide operational goals.
• Reviews administrative policies and procedures and guidelines to be implemented, evaluating the input on operations and identifying potential problems with appropriate actions to be taken in the Food Service Department.
• Identifies statewide operational problems in the implementation of administrative food service policies and procedures.
• Provides daily consultation and assistance to staff in the management and operation of the administrative, purchasing, inventory management programs and responsibilities.
• Initiates and implements in-service and training for department in accordance with Department requirements as well as tacking employee compliance.
• Assists the Food Service Director in the preparation of operating budgets and acts for the Food Service Director in management meetings during