Senior Regional Suicide Prevention Coordinator

Date posted: Friday 27 January 2023
Closing date: Friday 10 February 2023

NQPHN is looking for a Senior Regional Suicide Prevention Coordinator to join the team in their Cairns, Townsville, or Mackay office.

The role

The Senior Regional Suicide Prevention Coordinator has responsibility for leading regional planning activities relating to suicide prevention, along with monitoring and evaluating these activities.

This includes:

• the coordination and integration of early intervention and suicide prevention activities across regional stakeholders and service providers
• the establishment or maintenance of suicide prevention collaboratives.

Key selection criteria

• A relevant tertiary qualification and three years’ experience in the coordination of health programs or similar.
• Demonstrated understanding of the suicide prevention and mental health sector, including systems approaches to suicide prevention.
• Knowledge of local, state, and national policies and directions for mental health and suicide prevention services.
• Demonstrated ability to develop rapport and build relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise and meet deadlines in a high demand work environment.
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication, influencing, partnering, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills, particularly in relation to community and stakeholder engagement within the health sector.
• Demonstrated skills in dealing with confidential and sensitive information in a professional manner.
• Self-sufficient in the use of information technology – Microsoft Office suite (e.g. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

If you are looking for the opportunity to be part of a passionate and driven team and contribute to achieving our mission of ‘Northern Queenslanders live happier, healthier, longer lives,’ we’d love to hear from you.

NQPHN aims to be an employer of choice for Indigenous Australians, and we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this role.

To view the position description, please click here.

Your application should include:

• Cover letter (not exceeding two pages).
• Response to the Key Selection Criteria (no more than two pages).
• Your resume.

To submit an application for this position, please send your application to recruitment@nqphn.com.au

Applications close Monday 13 February 2023 at 8am.

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