Social Worker (Program Coordinator) Suicide Prevention Program

Suicide Prevention Coordinator

The Suicide Prevention Coordinator will serve to facilitate implementation of suicide prevention strategies within the medical center to help ensure that all appropriate measures are being taken to prevent suicide in our patient population. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Oversees the day-to-day processing of crisis line referrals from the National Veterans Crisis Line and ensures timely completion of follow-up contacts to requests.
• Monitors, reviews, and assigns local National Patient Record Flag for suicide through chart review, consultation with assigned clinical staff, and by assessment of the Veterans current state.
• Provides data collection, input, validation, and monitoring for suicide prevention and REACH VET programs.
• Services as REACH VET Program coordinator, ensuring adherence to national, VISN, and local guidelines and procedures related to REACH VET.
• Postvention Services: Provides debriefing and postvention support to staff and next of kin impacted by suicide loss.
• Provides outreach, teaching, and training to the Medical Center and CBOC staff members, Veterans, family members and community at large, about risk factors, warning signs, treatment options and resources available to Veterans at risk.
• Promotes the use of evidence-based intervention and strategies for suicide prevention in the medical center and CBOCs.
• Interfaces with services throughout the medical center to resolve administrative and clinical problems.
• Provides full range of clinical services, including crisis intervention, suicide risk evaluations and safety planning, case management, individual and group psychotherapy for Veterans who are at increased risk for suicide and adverse outcomes as needed.
• Services as the facility Subject Matter Expert for suicide prevention efforts, developing local procedures and ensuring compliance with local, VSIN, and national policy and directives related to suicide prevention and providing administrative and clinical guidance for Suicide Prevention, REACH VET, and related programs.
• Monitors inputs and analyzes dashboards to ensure metric compliance with national guidelines.
• Responds to referrals from the National Suicide Prevention Hotline/Veterans Crisis Line, internal facility calls, consults, and other referral methods to ensure Veteran safety, provide stabilization, support, and interventions.
• Maintains a valid drivers license to conduct community outreach and education events.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Primarily Monday-Friday: 8:00am-4:30pm with occasional after hour/weekend events

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): No Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): May be authorized to highly qualified applicants

EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact View email address on click.appcast.io, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 51120-F