• In Mental Health & Addiction Services assists higher level-administrator in achieving statewide &/or regional program goals & objectives & is independently responsible for one major program area & oversees several sub programs (e.g. 
• Conducts administrative investigations relative to behaviour, conduct, & efficiency of mental health programmatic staff, leads, participates in &/or monitors projects or committees.
• Manages mental health programmatic budgets, coordinates & oversees contract employees & volunteers, manages & tracks program service delivery &/or living arrangements for assigned population, local systems program training development, provides technical assistance to program participants and other stakeholders.
• In developmental centres operated by the Department of Developmental Disabilities,  independently responsible for one major program area & sub programs defined by rule & management staff. 
• Writes, develops & implements mental health program policies; transmits mental health programmatic decisions & directives; coordinates & monitors expenditures/budgets for program area (e.g., mental health programmatic area to include budgets such as capital, budget, community programs budget, contract management; monitor expenditures of mental health regional & statewide programs & sub programs budgets, or in developmental centres participates in the Individual Assessment Form process (e.g., assessments, exceptions, reconsideration); provides regional technical.
• Assistance (e.g., Mobile Crisis team); serves as a liaison between County Boards of Developmental Disabilities & independent providers of services.  
• Attends program related meetings with representatives from community mental health agencies, county mental health.
• Boards, local, regional & state chapters & consumer groups, meets with managerial programmatic staff; prepares & maintains programmatic records & reports, or in the developmental centres provides community training (e.g., Positive Culture); provides case consultation as assigned; completes (ODDP), as assigned. 

 
MAJOR WORKER CHARACTERISTICS:

• Knowledge of general management; manpower planning; employee training & development; public relations; finance; federal & state standards ®gulations governing care, custody & programming of consumers/patients in regional psychiatric hospitals; mental health.
• Technology, social work or comparable field, special education, psychology or rehabilitation; budgeting, provide lead work.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, maintain records, establish facts & draw valid conclusions; write, letters, papers & reports; handle sensitive telephone & face-to-face inquiries & contacts with general public; prepare &/or review & edit individual treatment/habitation plans & related documentation; gather, collate & classify information about data, people or things.