Division Director, BHCS (Skilled Med Prof/Mental Health)
Recruitment #23-5094-01
Date Opened | 3/29/2023 5:00:00 PM |
---|---|
Filing Deadline | 4/25/2023 5:00:00 PM |
Salary | $60.44 - $73.46/hour; $125,715.20 - $152,796.80/year |
Employment Type |
Permanent Full-Time Employment
|
HR Analyst | Monique Hill |
Department | Health Care Services Agency |
Work Location |
Oakland
|
Introduction
THIS IS A NEW ASSEMBLED EXAMINATION.
The eligible list resulting from this examination will cancel any existing list
and may last approximately one year but can be extended.
Applications must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services
Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Applications
will only be accepted on-line.
Supplemental
Questionnaire: A properly
completed Supplemental Questionnaire must be submitted with each
application. Applications and Supplemental Questionnaires must be in the
possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last
Day for Filing. Failure to submit the Supplemental Questionnaire will
result in disqualification.
Qualified
bilingual persons who speak English and are also fluent in: Spanish, Chinese,
Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Korean, Mien, Tagalog, Amharic, Farsi, Dari,
Tigrigna, Russian, Romanian or Sign Languages are especially encouraged to
apply. There is an additional biweekly compensation for persons in positions
designated bilingual. Qualified candidates
may be tested to demonstrate language proficiency.
DESCRIPTION
Alameda County, located on the east side of San Francisco Bay, is California's seventh-largest county.
The County employs 9,700 full-time employees and operates on an annual budget of $3.4 billion. Oakland, the County seat, is California's eighth largest city. One and a half million people call Alameda County home and live in a variety of incorporated cities, unincorporated communities and rural areas. As a major urban county, Alameda provides a full range of services to its citizens. The County is a blend of culturally and ethnically diverse communities, and its mixture of cosmopolitan and suburban areas provides the perfect environment for families and their active lifestyles. The County offers extensive cultural resources, countless recreational opportunities and an array of fine public and private colleges and universities.
THE HEALTH CARE SERVICES AGENCY
Alameda County's Health Services Program is administered by the Health Care Services Agency and
includes the following program areas: Behavioral Health, Public Health, Environmental Health, and Agency Administration/Indigent Health. The ultimate mission of the Health Care Services Agency is to provide fully integrated health care services through a comprehensive network of public and private partnerships that ensure optimal health and well-being and respect the diversity of all residents. Health Care Services Agency currently has multiple career opportunities for experienced professionals to become part of a service delivery team dedicated to the optimal health and well-being of Alameda County residents. For more information about the Health Care Services Agency, please visit www.acgov.org/health/
It is the mission of Alameda
County Behavioral Health to maximize the recovery, resilience and wellness of all eligible Alameda County residents who are developing or experiencing serious mental health, alcohol, or drug concerns. We envision communities where people realize their potential, and where stigma and discrimination against those with mental health, alcohol and/or drug issues are a thing of the past.
Only through exemplifying
the following Alameda County Behavioral Health values will we be successful:
ACBHCS
Access - where every door is the
right door for welcoming people with complex needs;
Consumer and Family
Empowerment - through shared decision‐making best practices, that clinically produce effective
outcomes;
Best Practices - business excellence
that uses public resources cost‐effectively;
Health and Wellness - by integrating
emotional, spiritual and physical health care;
Culturally Responsive - appropriate services
built on the strengths and life experiences of culturally diverse consumers and
their families;
Social Inclusion - utilizing advocacy and
education to eliminate stigma, discrimination, isolation, and misunderstanding
of persons with mental illness and substance abuse.
For more information about
Alameda County Behavioral Health, please visit www.acbhcs.org/
THE POSITION
Under general direction of the Deputy Director and/or Executive Leadership,
will plan, develop, organize and direct the activities and staff of a Division
of Behavioral Health Care Services and perform related work as required. A
Behavioral Health Division may include a variety of aligned services and
programs and/or operational or administrative units and functions. The Division
Director, Behavioral Health Care Services, may be required to directly
administer one or more division programs and to satisfy all professional
qualifications and/or licenses required for the administration of assigned
programs.
This class is located in the Behavioral Health Care Services Department of
the Health Care Services Agency. The incumbent of this class has responsibility
for developing, organizing and administering the full spectrum of Division
services. This class is distinguished from the next higher class of Adult and
Children’s System of Care Director, which provides leadership in organizational
policy, system design, system integration and planning and program development.
It differs from the next lower class of Behavioral Health Clinical Manager, in
that it has responsibility for directing and administering programs that
represent the full spectrum of services along the continuum of care within the
behavioral health delivery system, including integrated care and preventive
care, in all treatment settings, and/or administrative programs and business
functions that support the department.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: The Skilled Medical Professional/Mental Health
specialty designation for these positions require a mental health professional
with a current valid clinical license from the applicable licensing authority
in the State of California.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
In addition to meeting the minimum qualifications and knowledge and skills below, the ideal candidate will have strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills. This position is most suited for an experienced, well-organized leader interested in joining a progressive health care organization of passionate professionals dedicated to enhancing mental health services for the communities within Alameda County. Additionally, the ideal candidate will:
- Possess professional integrity and become familiar with and apply county rules and policies in decision making and planning; display and promote high standards of ethical conduct and behaviors consistent with agency and governmental standards.
- Be a collaborator, identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, internal and external stakeholders including, law enforcement, health care agencies, regional centers, oversight boards or committees, and community- based organizations (CBOs) to help achieve business goals.
- Be a sound decision maker with the ability to identify and understand complex problems and concepts, apply logical thinking and quantitative methods of gathering and analyzing information and exercise good judgment based on available data, design solutions to problems, formulate and articulate action plans proactively and collaboratively.
- Be a strong leader who aligns the organization’s vision and values and manages work groups by inspiring, advising and delegating subordinates, promoting positive team interactions and working relationships, facilitating goal accomplishment and tracking and evaluating performance to ensure success and inspires support, monitors and acknowledges front line staff, develops effective teams at all levels of the organization.
- Be an exemplary leader, possessing the skills necessary for identifying, navigating and successfully interacting within the dynamics of the organization while maintaining sensitivity to the competing needs of staff, and internal and external stakeholders including, law enforcement, health care agencies, regional centers, oversight boards or committees, and community –based organizations.
- Possess demonstrated ability to lead, direct, and manage organizational change. Understands and supports the need for change; envisions and articulates the intended result of the change process; provides resources, removes barriers, and acts as an advocate for those initiating change; and is able to both identify and further develop existing practices, polices, or procedures that are consistent with departmental goals.
- Have demonstrated experience in developing, monitoring, and coordinating operation processes including the annual budget process and plan for funding sources; maintaining budget and fiscal controls of expenditures and revenues.
- Be an effective communicator and listener; quick and clear thinker; and calm under pressure.
- Meet the Skilled Medical Professional/Mental Health specialty designation which requires a mental health professional with a current valid clinical license from the applicable licensing authority in the State of California.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
The minimum professional requirements for admission to the competitive
assessment process include:
Education:
And
Experience:
The equivalent of five years of full-time, post-graduate professional
management and supervisory experience in directing a large public or private
health care program or organization, which must have included progressive
responsibility in planning, organizing and providing leadership in the areas of
program operations, management and evaluation. Some division assignments may
also require at least one year of management experience in the administration
of clinical services.
License:
- If required by the incumbent’s division assignment, possession of a current valid clinical license from the applicable licensing authority in the State of California.
- Possession of a valid California Motor Vehicle Operator's license.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
The
Skilled Medical Professional/Mental Health specialty designation for these
positions require a mental health professional with a current valid clinical
license from the applicable licensing authority in the State of California.
NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications
in the announcement of an examination.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
The most suitably qualified candidates will possess the following competencies:
Knowledge of:
• Principles, practices and techniques of program development, implementation and evaluation.
• Administrative principles, practices and techniques of county, state and federal mental health systems.
• Methods of administrative problem solving.
• Current laws, rules and regulations pertaining to the Division.
• Health service delivery of relevance to the Division.
• Principles of personnel management, training and supervision.
• Principles and practices of governmental budgeting, funding, provider contracting, and grants management.
Ability to:
• Plan and evaluate programs and services.
• Utilize data in decision-making and performance management.
• Interpret pertinent and prevailing rules and regulations.
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Make decisions, use good judgment.
• Analyze and problem solve.
• Exercise leadership.
• Skillful management and administrative control.
• Provide management and fiscal analyses.
• Demonstrate interpersonal sensitivity.
• Be flexible.
EXAMINATION COMPONENTS
The examination will consist of the following steps:
1) A review of applicants' applications to verify possession of minimum
requirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for the
classification will move on to the next step in the examination process.
2) A review of candidates' Supplemental Questionnaires to select the best
qualified applicants. Those candidates selected as best qualified will move on
to the next step in the examination process.
3) An oral interview examination which will be weighted as 100% of the
candidate's final examination score. The oral interview examination may contain
situational exercises.
CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACH
PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION.
We reserve the right to make changes to the announced
examination components.
Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit.
Such a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equal
opportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designed
to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform
duties of the vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted and
specific to the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, the eligible
list may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Other
recruitments may be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or
for other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.
To learn more about our recruitment and selection process, please visit the
“What You Need to Know” section of our website, www.acgov.org/hrs.
Selection Plan
Applicants
will be informed via email with reasonable notice in advance of any
examination process which will require their attendance. The following
dates are tentative and subject to change based on the needs of the Agency:
TENTATIVE SELECTION PLAN:
Deadline for Filing |
5:00pm, Tuesday, April
25, 2023 |
Review of Minimum Qualification |
May 1, 2023 |
Supplemental Questionnaire Review for Best
Qualified |
May 24, 2023 |
Oral Interview Exam** |
June 20-21, 2023 |
**The
combined oral examination/hiring interview, in addition to establishing an
eligibility list, may serve as the final selection interview for vacancies in
this classification.
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE ANNOUNCED
RECRUITMENT & SELECTION PLAN
Alameda County and the Human Resource Services Department will make
reasonable efforts in the examination and/or selection process to accommodate
qualified individuals with disabilities and/or medical conditions in
accordance/compliance with the State Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA),
Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Alameda County’s Reasonable
Accommodation Policy and applicable statues. To request an accommodation
due to a disability/medical condition during this or other phases of the examination/selection
process, please contact the assigned Human Resources Representative listed on
the job announcement before the last
date of filing. Alameda County requires applicants to provide supporting documentation to
substantiate a request for reasonable accommodation. In order to qualify for a
reasonable accommodation, applicants must have a disability/medical condition
pursuant to the ADA, FEHA and applicable statutes.
For more information
regarding our Reasonable Accommodation procedures, please visit our website, www.acgov.org/hrs/divisions/ps/application.htm
BENEFITS
Alameda County offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that affords wide-ranging health care options to meet the different needs of a diverse workforce and their families. We also sponsor many different employee discount, fitness and health screening programs focused on overall well being. These benefits include but are not limited to*:
For your Health & Well-Being
- Medical – HMO & PPO Plans
- Dental – HMO & PPO Plans
- Vision or Vision Reimbursement
- Share the Savings
- Basic Life Insurance
- Supplemental Life Insurance (with optional dependent coverage for eligible employees)
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
- County Allowance Credit
- Flexible Spending Accounts - Health FSA, Dependent Care and Adoption Assistance
- Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Voluntary Benefits - Accident Insurance, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity and Legal Services
- Employee Assistance Program
For your Financial Future
- Retirement Plan - (Defined Benefit Pension Plan)
- Deferred Compensation Plan (457 Plan or Roth Plan)
For your Work/Life Balance
- 11 paid holidays
- Floating Holidays
- Vacation and sick leave accrual
- Vacation purchase program
- Management Paid Leave**
- Catastrophic Sick Leave
- Group Auto/Home Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Guaranteed Ride Home
- Employee Wellness Program (e.g. At Work Fitness, Incentive Based Programs, Gym Membership Discounts)
- Employee Discount Program (e.g. theme parks, cell phone, etc.)
- Child Care Resources
- 1st United Services Credit Union
*Eligibility is determined by Alameda County and offerings may vary by collective bargaining agreement. This provides a brief summary of the benefits offered and can be subject to change.
Conclusion
All notices related to County recruitments for which you
have applied will be sent/delivered via email. Please add @jobaps.com, @acgov.org,
nonreplyalamedacountyhr@acgov.org, and Noreply@jobaps.com as accepted addresses to
any email blocking or spam filtering program you may use. If you do not do
this, your email blocking or spam filtering program may block receipt of the
notices regarding your application for recruitments. You are also strongly
advised to regularly log into your County of Alameda online application account
to check for notices that may have been sent to you. All email notices that
will be sent to you will also be kept in your personal online application
account. You will be able to view all of your notices in your online
application account by clicking on the "My applications" button on the
Current Job Openings page.
Please take the steps
recommended above to ensure you do not miss any notices about a recruitment for
which you have applied. The County of Alameda is not responsible for notices
that are not read, received or accessed by any applicant for a County
recruitment.
NOTE: All notices are
generated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the email
boxes Noreply@jobaps.com and nonreplyalamedacountyhr@acgov.org, are routed to unmonitored
mailboxes. If you have questions, please go to our website at www.acgov.org/hrs. You may also contact the
Human Resources Analyst listed on the job announcement for the recruitment for
which you have applied.
Nicole
Lewis-Bolton, Human Resources Analyst
Human
Resource Services, County of Alameda
(510)
272-6468 • nicole.lewis-bolton@acgov.org
Disaster Service
Worker
All Alameda County employees are designated
Disaster Service Workers through state and local law. Employment with the
County requires the affirmation of a loyalty oath to this effect.
Employees are required to report to work as ordered in the event of an
emergency.
Equal Employment
Opportunity
Alameda County has a diverse workforce, that is representative of the communities
we serve, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All aspects
of employment are based on merit, competence, performance and business need.
Alameda County does not discriminate in employment on the basis of: race,
color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national
origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability,
genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation,
parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors protected under
federal, state and local law. Alameda County celebrates diversity and is
committed to creating an inclusive, and welcoming workplace environment.