HUMAN SERVICES SENIOR SUPERVISOR - SES - 67039443 - SUNLAND - ALL UNITS/SHIFTS

Requisition No: 882973 

Agency: Agency for Persons with Disabilities

Working Title: HUMAN SERVICES SENIOR SUPERVISOR - SES - 67039443 - SUNLAND - ALL UNITS/SHIFTS

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 67039443 

Salary: $38,798.86 - $42,678.64 

Posting Closing Date: 09/16/2026 

Total Compensation Estimator 

AGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

POSITION: Human Services Senior Supervisor - Selected Exempt Service (SES)

POSITION NUMBER: 67039443

OPEN COMPETITIVE OPPORTUNITY

This posting may close before the posted closing date.

CANDIDATE POOL: Future vacancies may be filled from this advertisement for a period of up to six months.

This advertisement is for all Units/Shifts

The Benefits of Working for the State of Florida

Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for eligible employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits, including:

• Annual and Sick Leave benefits.
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year.
• State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options.
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions (For more information, please click ).
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Tuition waivers.
• And more! For a more complete list of benefits, visit .
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave.

The Agency seeks team members who demonstrate the qualities of being humble, hungry, and smart and lead others to embody the same. This entails lacking excessive ego, sharing credit, being self-motivated, and exercising good judgment and intuition regarding the subtleties of group dynamics.

This position with APD will serve staff and management across the Agency. Your work will impact the workplace culture, our community, and the population we serve as we continuously strive to achieve the Agency’s mission.

*Responses to the qualifying questions are required and must be verifiable based on your submitted application, and “see resume” will not be considered an acceptable response.

SALARY RANGE

$38,798.86 - $42,678.64 Annually $1,492.26 - $1,641.49 Bi-weekly

The hiring salary may exceed the maximum posted salary.

Position Summary

This primary function of this position is to provide overall management and supervision to staff assigned and to provide oversight to the active treatment programs of the residents to ensure the operations of the facility. Ability to document and ensure documentation is completed as required.

The Work You Will Do  

Supervise direct care staff assigned to a shift at a home by motivating, monitoring, directing, and evaluating their performance, providing corrective learning actions in response areas of improvement. Ensure coverage levels are met within established policy and procedure.

Complete assessments and develop appropriate objectives in the area of personal independence training. Actively participate in helping residents’ meet established goals and objectives.

Supervise and monitor the implementation of self-care, behavioral, social/recreational, and other training, or programming needs.

Provide employees training, development and motivational activities designed to enhance the employees’ abilities to provide quality care for residents.

Assume full shift responsibility for ensuring quality direct care services and living conditions for residents. Additionally, provide and monitor behavioral training including acquisition (eating, dressing, personal hygiene, social, housekeeping, recreation, and other life skills) and reduction (aggressive and disruptive behaviors) programs as needed.

Ensure all Incident Reports are completed. Assist Investigators with alleged abuse and neglect of clients by employees as needed.

Document and report unusual and/or significant events in a timely manner to the appropriate supervisors or designees.

Read the logbook and other pertinent documents relevant to the operation of the home/unit in accordance with operating procedure

Attend house, unit, center-wide and other meetings as required. Conduct and document staff meetings with shift staff.

Provide facility wide duties on a rotating schedule to monitor staff residents and activities, Person in Charge (PIC) schedule.

Participate development of guidelines relevant to their employee and resident responsibilities.

Responsible for interacting with the residents Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) to evaluate programs and to discuss other areas of concern.

Assist in the hiring process of staff, to include but not limited to, participating in the interview process, making recommendation(s) for hire. Recommends corrective and/or disciplinary actions as necessary.

Completes all required training. Complete and maintain approved maladaptive behavior prevention/de-escalation/intervention certification as required. Monitor and tracks to ensure assigned staff complete required training and maintain

Monitor, in-service, motivate and direct staff in areas of job performance. Complete employee’s performance evaluations and performance expectations within established timeframes as required.

Maintain timesheet, ensuring accuracy and submit timely in accordance with policy and procedure. Review and approve timesheets as required. Monitor all time and attendance to ensure all coverage levels are met, review and address areas of concern with staff and management as required.

Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be willing to perform essential services before, during, and after an emergency.
• Must be willing to work beyond the normal work schedule to maintain minimum coverage levels and meet the needs of the Agency.
• Must maintain certification in Prevention and Safety Strategies, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Direct Care In-Service. 
• One (1) year of supervisory experience over employees and one (1) year of direct care experience OR two (2) years of direct care experience.
• Must be willing and able to provide “hands-on” assistance to residents with activities of daily living to include personal hygiene and grooming, such as bathing, toileting, and dressing.
• Must be able to lift up to 40lbs with or without accommodations. 

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of problem-solving techniques.
• Ability to assume full administrative responsibility for a facility.
• Ability to coordinate prescriptive behavioral modification training programs with social, medical, recreational, and other rehabilitative program personnel.
• Ability to counsel and provide guidance to clients with behavioral problems.
• Ability to utilize problem-solving techniques
• Ability to supervise people.
• Ability to determine work priorities, assign work, and ensure proper completion of work assignments.
• Ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to develop and review administrative policies, procedures and regulations pertaining to the implementation of a treatment program.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

Additional Information

Profile Completion

To qualify for this position, applicants must complete all fields in the Candidate Profile, including their work history with the month and year.

Resumes and other documentation can be attached to provide additional information but will not replace the required completed Candidate Profile.

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 will be required to repay all benefits received depending upon your retirement date.

Direct Deposit Program

As a condition of employment, a person appointed to a position in the State Personnel System is required to participate in the Direct Deposit Program. Rather than receiving a paper paycheck, your funds will be deposited directly into your account at your financial institution. This will be accomplished by Electronic Funds Transfer. Banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions are eligible to accept such deposits. Retirement funds are also required to be in the Direct Deposit Program.

Background Screening Requirement

It is the policy of the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities that applicants for employment undergo Level 2 employment screening in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, Florida Statutes, as a condition of employment or being permitted to serve as a volunteer.

No applicant for a designated position will be employed or permitted to volunteer until the Level 2 screening results are received, reviewed, and approved by the Agency.

Level 2 background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for Statewide criminal and juvenile records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Federal criminal records checks through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and may include local criminal records checks through local law enforcement agencies.

Pursuant to S. 110.1127(1), Florida Statutes, this position requires a background investigation, including fingerprinting.

Applicants for employment will also be screened through the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse. For additional information, please visit the AHCA Background Screening Clearinghouse .

APD only hires U.S. citizens and those lawfully authorized to work in the U.S. APD participates in the U.S. government’s employment eligibility verification program (E-Verify), which electronically confirms an employee’s eligibility to work in the U.S. after completing the employment eligibility verification form (I-9).

All applicants should complete the online application process. If you need assistance applying for this position, please call the People First service center at View phone number on us.fitly.work. 

Responses to the qualifying questions are required to be considered for this position. Answers to the qualifying questions must be verifiable based on your submitted application.

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 View phone number on us.fitly.work). 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 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

Recruiting Contact:

Lizzie Holland

Human Resource Specialist/Recruitment Manager

Sunland Human Resources

Division of Administration and Facility Operations

E-mail: View email address on us.fitly.work

3700 Williams Drive

Marianna, FL. 32446

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 View phone number on us.fitly.work). 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 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.