Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor- Suicide Prevention Coordinator

Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator

The Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator serves as a Miami VA Healthcare System facility subject matter expert and point of contact for matters related to suicide including prevention, intervention, postvention efforts, suicide death and behavior reporting, education and outreach. The areas of responsibility include Miami VA Medical Center and surrounding CBOCs in Monroe, Miami-Dade, and Broward counties. This position is 90% administrative and 10% Clinical.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• The incumbent functions as facility subject matter expert advising mental health and medical staff leadership, the mental health executive council, VA medical facility leadership, program managers, and staff concerning suicide prevention strategies, accrediting agency requirements, and guidelines pertaining to individual Veterans, for the VA medical facility and Veteran's community.
• Tracking and reporting on Veterans who have attempted suicide or are at high risk for suicide
• Responding to referrals from the Veterans Crisis Line (VCL) and self-referrals from other sources
• Ensuring that all VA staff members have received discipline-appropriate suicide prevention training (VA S.A.V.E. training or equivalent)
• Collaborating with community organizations and partners to increase awareness of suicide prevention best practices and providing training to individuals who have contact with Veteran
• Providing subject matter consultation to providers on available resources for suicidal individuals, as well as expertise and direction in the areas of system design to prevent deaths by suicide within their local VA medical centers
• Working with providers to ensure that monitoring and treatment is intensified for high-risk patients while making sure that those who are at elevated risk receive education and support about approaches to reduce risks
• Reporting to Office of Mental Health Suicide Prevention (OMHSP) on Veterans who attempted or died by suicide and sending OMHSP requested data, which is used to determine characteristics and risks associated with these groups of Veterans.
• Making sure that providers follow up on missed appointments to ensure patient safety for high-risk patients and initiate problem-solving decisions about possible tensions or difficulties in patients' ongoing care.
• Ensuring that medical centers have established a High-Risk for Suicide List (HRSL) of Veterans and a process for establishing Patient Record Flag Category 1 High Risk for Suicide (HRS-PRFs), which includes:
  Exclusively controlling all HRS-PRFs and limiting their use to patients who meet the criteria for being placed on the facility HRSL, Coordinating with facility committees that manage PRFs to incorporate the use of HRS-PRFs into overall facility flag processes, Assessing the risk for suicide in individual patients in collaboration with their treating clinicians and ensuring that those patients receive appropriate follow-up care for any missed mental health appointments.
  
  Documenting, when appropriate, the nature of the follow-up care and plans for continuing treatment in the electronic health record (EHR), Identifying training needs related to suicide prevention, Maintaining communication with the facility-designated advisory groups to keep them aware of flag placements and review outcomes.
• Professional knowledge of the principles and theoretical concepts of counseling and social work, as well as the administrative mechanism and processes appropriate to the assignment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to provide direct care to suicidal and/or mental health patients, as well as ability to provide patient/staff education
• Ability to select the pertinent techniques for data collection and identify aspects of successful program operations that can be used for improving this and similar programs, including the ability to utilize a variety of fact-finding techniques.

Work Schedule:

Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm (

Note:

Work schedules are determined and approved by the supervisor. The incumbent may be required to work various shifts on a permanent or temporary basis based on facility/patient care needs).

Telework:
Not available.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 31972F

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not authorized.