This is the highest level class in a series of classes responsible for providing central direction to a comprehensive statewide services system in direct support of the agency's mission. Positions in this class direct all administrative and programmatic functions in a division providing comprehensive human services delivery programs, and provide daily operational direction to residential facilities. Performs work of unusual difficulty that requires supervising the daily operations of assigned facilities and the provision of service to local government human service programs and clients in state institutions and community outpatient programs. The type of programs includes statewide mental health, mental retardation, substance abuse, forensic, social services or rehabilitative services.
Positions also provide consultation and daily oversight to localities and facilities.
The incumbent must address difficult ethical questions regarding conflicting demands such as society's concern for safety, the individual's right to treatment, patient confidentiality, and the state's need for information in order to render justice. May provide general direction to forensic services consultants engaged in the complex work of providing consultation on forensic psychological services to state and local institutions and practitioners. Positions provide functional supervision on a daily basis to directors of State operated facilities. Receives administrative direction from the Commissioner, Associate Commissioner or other agency executive who expects the incumbent to exercise a high degree of initiative, act on independent judgment, and operate within a broad framework of state, local and agency regulations. Directs the accomplishment of a major part of the agency's total mission affecting facilities, contracted services and field service offices where large numbers of clients are served.