Suicide Prevention and Postvention Response Specialist

Current employees: Please apply through the employee portal to be considered for this opportunity.

Pay Range:

Department:

Job Type:

Exemption Status:

Closing Date (Open Until Filled if No Date Specified):

The Opportunity:

Overview:

THIS WORK MATTERS!

We seek leaders, achievers and doers who bring skill and passion to a challenging and evolving environment. At the Multnomah County Health Department we are all inspired by the mission: We work with communities to advance health equity, protect the most vulnerable, and promote health and wellness for everyone and we uphold the values: Compassion and Care, Empowerment, Racial Equity, Creativity and Integrity. We create a culture of respect, trust and understanding for the highly diverse population we serve in our communities.

This position helps to coordinate culturally informed suicide prevention and behavioral health education within the organization, across divisions, and to the public. The focus of this position is on suicide prevention that enhances the Health Department's ability to perform data collection, postvention activities, and community training in suicide prevention. Most notably, this position is responsible for the activation and continuous improvement of, postvention responses that happen within our County after a youth suicide occurs. As a part of that work, this position will write and update processes and procedures for working with internal and external partners to include community and government agencies; analyze and report on program goals, trends, budget and contracts; evaluate program goals and quality improvement steps to be placed into presentations and reports to demonstrate program progress and outcomes to lead to suicide prevention and support resources for families and those affected.

As the Suicide Prevention and Postvention Response Specialist, duties will include:

Program Development

• Develop, monitor, and lead Multnomah County’s Postvention Response Plan. Create and deploy crisis system tools and protocols for the postvention family, individual, and community support.

• Develop and establish a well-coordinated and timely community-wide response as an effective strategy to support healing and reduce the risk for further suicide and suicidal behaviors.

• Responsible for tracking, building and maintaining relationships with community partners and other county Postvention Response Leads to share information, tools and strategies on postvention models, plans and activities.

• Provide technical assistance to community partners, schools, and other providers on postvention planning, development, including grant applications, and implementation of evidence-informed practices and strategies. 

• Track and report on budget …