Psychology Program Manager (Suicide Prevention)

Job Title

VA Careers - Mental Health Professionals

Duties

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides administrative, clinical, and professional supervision for assigned Suicide Prevention Program staff, including Suicide Prevention Coordinators and Suicide Prevention Case Managers.
• Oversees day-to-day operations of the Suicide Prevention Program, including workload distribution, staffing coverage, consult management, outreach processes, and continuity of services.
• Maintains programmatic responsibility for local suicide prevention operations, ensuring alignment with VA, VHA, VISN, and facility policies, procedures, and performance expectations.
• Provides leadership, consultation, and oversight for clinical activities related to suicide risk identification, risk assessment, safety planning, risk monitoring, and care coordination.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in suicide prevention and monitors facility adherence to suicide prevention requirements, performance measures, quality indicators, and documentation standards.
• Uses data to evaluate program effectiveness, identify gaps in care, monitor trends, and implement quality improvement initiatives related to suicide prevention.
• Coordinates implementation of national, VISN, and facility suicide prevention initiatives across VA Long Beach Healthcare System.
• Provides guidance and oversight for High Risk for Suicide Patient Record Flag management, suicide behavior reporting, case review processes, and related clinical follow-up procedures.
• Collaborates across service lines to support quality suicide prevention processes and ensure optimal coordinated care for Veterans at elevated risk for suicide.
• Provides oversight of the Suicide Postvention Team and ensures optimal coordination of postvention responses for Veterans, families, staff, and clinical areas impacted by suicide deaths.
• Supports external and internal reviews, surveys, audits, and regulatory activities related to suicide prevention, patient safety, and quality of care.
• Provides consultation, education, and training to clinical and administrative staff across the facility on suicide risk assessment, prevention practices, safety planning, lethal means safety, postvention, and related suicide prevention topics.
• Serves on Mental Health, facility, VISN, and other committees, workgroups, and task forces related to suicide prevention, patient safety, quality improvement, access, and care coordination as assigned.
• Completes community outreach and engagement activities to support a public health approach to suicide prevention.
• May provide a range of psychological assessment, evidence-based psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and consultation services for Veterans with complex suicide risk or other high-acuity mental health needs.
• Participates in psychology training activities, which may include didactics, seminars, consultation, and clinical supervision of predoctoral interns, postdoctoral fellows, or other trainees when appropriately credentialed and assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00a-4:30p

Compressed/Flexible: May be authorized at Supervisory discretion.

Telework: Not authorized.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement Title/# : Psychology Program Manager/000000

EDRP Authorized: Yes

US Department of Veterans Affairs