Requisition No:
Agency: Children and Families
Working Title: MEDICAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR -
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.
NEFSH is a tobacco free facility.
To be considered for this position, responses to the qualifying questions are required and must be verifiable based on the submitted application.
This position is a highly responsible and professional role that will serve as the Medical Executive Director at NEFSH. The role collaborates with each section within the state facilities and is required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities, and should be extraordinarily detail oriented.
The position includes supervising and directing employees, including communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees; planning and directing their work; and having the authority to recommend actions such as hire, transfer, suspend, layoff, promote, discharge, assign, and reward or discipline direct reports. Employees are evaluated against established standards with appropriate actions taken.
In this large mental health facility, the incumbent maintains a positive and professional attitude, ensuring individuals receive comprehensive medical and mental health services in a cost‑effective, customer‑oriented manner while following medical ethics and outcome‑oriented management systems and respecting patients’ constitutional rights.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:
- Ensures that all Psychiatric and Primary Care treatment at NEFSH are administered in accordance with policies, procedures, rules, regulations, and State and Federal Statutes.
- Through the Associate Medical Executive Director (MED), employs and directs all Senior Physicians.
- Administers effectively, directs and assumes operational responsibility for all physician‑based services at NEFSH.
- Researches, designs and writes policies and operating procedures related to clinical services used by all levels of clinical staff.
- Administers clinical personnel matters in compliance with Personnel Rules & Regulations and collective bargaining agreements.
- Develops recognized programs of resident care that lead to customer satisfaction.
- Assists in developing the hospital’s budget, costing out programs, establishing expenditure priorities, and administering expenditures to maintain budget integrity while controlling costs.
- Serves as a consultant in matters relating to psychiatry, general medicine, and clinical administration.
- Recruits medical staff, privileges, and credentials all professional clinical staff members on a bi‑annual basis.
- Reviews and monitors daily reports of activities and incidents.
- Seeks, compiles, and provides information, advisories, and reports that keep the clinical staff informed of current developments.
- Participates in and chairs meetings as requested, relating to clinical service delivery and hospital management as part of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).
- Acts as a liaison between the hospital and academic institutions or other hospitals, traveling as necessary.
- Participates in administrative matters that bear on clinical issues called for by department or hospital policy and procedures.
- Maintains membership on the Department of Children and Families Clinical Advisory Committee.
- As Director of the Medical Staff, conducts monthly meetings with physicians and ensures implementation of the Medical Staff by‑laws, Rules and Regulations.
- Collaborates with the Associate MED on tasks relating to recruitment, credentialing, committee staff work, maintenance of medical standards, and executive committee work which includes recommendations to the hospital’s Governing Body.
- Ensures that through the Medical Staff the standards of medical care strive for treatment excellence and efficiency.
- Conducts monthly Department Head Meetings with all direct reports.
- Writes and reviews correspondence, reports, and opinions on matters related to clinical practice as assigned by the Hospital Administrator or Program Office.
- Assists in interviewing, selecting, and training new employees.
- Approves submitted timesheets and leave requests on Kronos and People First systems for all direct reports.
- Supervises all direct reports, ensuring they meet individualized performance standards, adhere to professional practice standards for their discipline, receive quarterly coaching, and follow an approved Employee Development Plan.
- Coordinates, facilitates, and supervises the system of obtaining consultant services for patients with special problems for all external procedures.
- Participates as a consultant in departmental in‑servicing meetings and programs.
- Reviews records of problem cases and sets up case conferences on topics of interest for Continuing Medical Education (CME) in association with the University of Florida, Department of Psychiatry.
- Establishes selected cases for consultation to validate treatment excellence and efficiency.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the position:
- Certification in CPR, MANDT, Infection Control, Customer Service, and all OSHA requirements annually.
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs. with use of Safety‑T‑Belt, prolonged sitting/standing, bending, reaching, and stooping may be required.
- Ability to walk extended distances across campus.
- Intervention with combative individuals may be required.
- Driving may be required.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Licensure as a physician pursuant to Chapter 458, Florida Statutes, and two years of post‑licensure professional experience in the practice of medicine; or
- Licensure as an osteopathic physician pursuant to Chapter 459, Florida Statutes, and two years of post‑licensure professional experience in the practice of osteopathic medicine.
- Certification by a recognized board in a medical specialty area (psychiatry) can substitute for the required experience.
Preference will be given to applicants who have:
- Board‑certified applicants with a minimum of five years’ experience in a mental health setting or previous experience as a MED in a mental health setting.
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
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- Nine paid holidays and one personal holiday each year
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Opportunities for career advancement
- Tuition waiver for public college courses
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: .
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 are required to repay all benefits received depending on 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.
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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 , F.S., Drug‑Free Workplace Act.
For assistance, call the People First Service Center at (877) 562‑7287 Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Eastern time.
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