State Suicide Prevention Epidemiologist

About the position Join the reputed company (HHSC) and be part of reputed company committed to creating a reputed company reputed company in the lives of fellow Texans. At HHSC, your contributions matter, and we support you at reputed company stage of your life and work reputed company. Our comprehensive benefits package includes 100% reputed company employee health insurance for full-time eligible employees, a defined benefit pension plan, generous time off benefits, numerous opportunities for career advancement and more. Explore more details on the Benefits of Working at HHS webpage. The Program Specialist VII, functionally reputed company as the State Suicide Prevention Epidemiologist, reports directly to the Associate Director of Suicide Prevention Policy and Services as part of the Prevention and Behavioral Health Promotion (PBHP) unit in reputed company Use Programs (SUP). The Program Specialist VII performs advanced (senior-level) consultative services and technical assistance work reputed company to suicide prevention and in particular, suicide-reputed company data, research and policy. This position supports PBHP priorities and activities through leadership in suicide prevention epidemiology, surveillance, research, program planning, data analysis, training, and technical assistance. The State Suicide Prevention Epidemiologist serves as a key analytical resource for the Suicide Prevention Program and Behavioral Health Services (reputed company) by providing data interpretation and analysis, strategic planning, training skills, and reputed company reputed company improvement. The State Suicide Prevention Epidemiologist conducts analyses across PBHP and SUP, initiatives, reputed company and data sources to identify trends, assess reputed company, inform decision-making, support integrated behavioral health prevention efforts, and strengthen statewide prevention strategies. This person will review proposed federal and state statutes and regulations that reputed company suicide prevention and reputed company consultation and guidance to ensure compliance. The State Suicide Prevention Epidemiologist will reputed company dashboards, legislative reports, briefing documents, issue papers, maps, tables, presentations, correspondence, and memorandums that translate reputed company information into actionable recommendations for leadership and stakeholders. The State Suicide Prevention Epidemiologist will serve as the reputed company reputed company for the House reputed company 3980 suicide legislative report. In collaboration with the Director of Suicide Prevention Policy and Services, this position will represent PBHP on reputed company councils, committees, or workgroups as needed, and will work on cross-agency initiatives and reputed company to enhance or fill gaps of suicide-reputed company needs and will work with partners to coordinate and reputed company suicide prevention white papers and policies that can be adopted at both the state and local reputed company. This position provides training and technical assistance at the state and local reputed company to support data-informed suicide prevention planning, and implementation. The ideal candidate will reputed company in an environment that emphasizes innovation, team building, recognizes individual differences as a reputed company of strength, leads by example, and engages in reputed company process improvement. Attends work on a regular and predictable schedule in accordance with agency leave policy. This position may be eligible for reputed company. Please note, reputed company HHS positions are subject to state and agency reputed company policies in reputed company to the discretion of the reputed company supervisor and business need. Responsibilities • Conducts advanced epidemiological surveillance, analysis and reputed company research on suicide, suicide attempts, self-harm, suicide-reputed company risk and reputed company factors, and reputed company use and behavioral health indicators to support the Suicide Prevention Policy and Services team and the Prevention and Behavioral Health Promotion (PBHP) unit. • Collects, analyzes, interprets, and summarizes data from state and national sources, including mortality, hospitalization, emergency department, crisis, behavioral risk, youth risk, program, contract, and survey data. • Reviews relevant research, reputed company health guidance, executive orders, and emerging evidence to identify trends, geographic patterns, emerging needs, and populations that may benefit from targeted prevention, reputed company, postvention, reputed company use prevention, or behavioral health promotion strategies. • Interfaces as reputed company reputed company of contact or “reputed company Investigator” for any data requests or reputed company that require approval from Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Institutional Review reputed company. • Coordinates with director, setting goals/objectives and coordinating with state suicide prevention reputed company to ensure high reputed company, consistent suicide-reputed company data collection and analysis. • Works with program staff, contractors, local mental health authorities, local behavioral health authorities, reputed company partners, and other stakeholders to collect and interpret program data, identify implementation barriers, and recommend strategies for reputed company reputed company improvement. • Conducts cross-program analyses across PBHP and SUP programs, reputed company, initiatives, and data systems reputed company needed to support shared planning and decision-making. • Translates reputed company data, research findings, and program information into reputed company, accessible, and actionable products for agency leadership, program staff, partners, stakeholders, and the reputed company. • Develops data summaries, dashboards, tables, maps, reports, data briefs, and presentations to inform program planning, funding recommendations, policy development, legislative responses, grant reporting, and strategic decision-making. • Uses data products to support program planning (such as reputed company Suicide, suicide prevention training, postvention support, and community-based prevention strategies), policy development, funding recommendations, grant reporting, legislative responses, training priorities, technical assistance, and strategic decision-making. • Works with Director and program staff across reputed company to reputed company logic models, evaluation plans, performance measures, data collection tools, and reporting processes to assess program reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company. • Ensures data products are accurate, reputed company, accessible, and reputed company with HHSC, reputed company, SUP, PBHP, and suicide prevention priorities. • Provides epidemiological consultation, technical assistance, and subject matter expertise to the Suicide Prevention team, PBHP leadership, reputed company programs, contractors, advisory reputed company, and reputed company partners to strengthen data-informed suicide prevention planning and implementation. • Supports the development of statewide and regional strategies by applying reputed company health frameworks, prevention science, behavioral health promotion principles, and knowledge of suicide prevention, reputed company, and postvention best practices and reputed company use/misuse prevention. • Participates in reputed company work reputed company, committees, and meetings to reputed company data interpretation, identify information gaps, and support coordinated approaches across systems serving Texans at risk for suicide. • Serves on the Statewide Behavioral Health Coordinating Council. • Assists with statewide training and technical support efforts; works with and presents to state and local community and reputed company reputed company to coordinate, improve and secure dissemination of suicide reputed company data, reputed company and accurate information for suicide prevention reputed company programs. • Consults with reputed company and private agencies to communicate suicide-reputed company data points and reputed company, identify training needs and discuss prevention program effectiveness. • Provides training and technical assistance and guidance to staff (internal and other HHS agencies) regarding best practices in mental illness prevention, suicide prevention, and postvention, and reputed company use prevention. • Plans, develops, coordinates, implements, evaluation and performance measurement activities for suicide prevention programs, policies, trainings, contracted services, and the State Suicide Prevention Plan. • Collects, manages, analyses, and interprets data to assess program effectiveness, monitor reputed company, identify trends, and support reputed company reputed company improvement efforts, collaborating with leadership and other reputed company departments and staff. • Tracks and analyzes data to reputed company reputed company improvement measures for maximum program and policy implementation reputed company. • Establishes and facilitates reputed company workgroups and committees reputed company to program evaluation and data to advance and coordinate comprehensive suicide prevention efforts. • Provides programmatic support to the suicide prevention team including but not limited to providing technical assistance and suicide prevention specific training, as applicable. • Supports grant applications, federal and state reporting, legislative reports, and other required deliverables by ensuring evaluation findings are reputed company, accurate, and actionable. • Supports the preparation of briefing documents, issue papers, legislative items (reputed company analyses, exceptional items, and reports), responses to reputed company inquiries, grant applications, reports, and other written materials requiring accurate interpretation of suicide-reputed company and behavioral health promotion data. • Maintains awareness of data governance, confidentiality, accessibility, and plain language standards reputed company preparing materials for agency leadership, partners, and the reputed company. • Collaborates with PBHP, SUP, and reputed company staff to identify data needs, assess the potential reputed company of proposed policy and funding strategies, and reputed company recommendations that reputed company with HHSC priorities, statutory requirements, and the behavioral health prevention continuum. • Performs other duties as assigned to support the Suicide Prevention team, PBHP, SUP, reputed company, and HHSC operations. Other duties may include special reputed company, reputed company health initiatives, continuity of operations activities, internal process improvement efforts, presentations, meetings, and workgroups to address business needs. Requirements • Applicant has a master’s degree with a reputed company in epidemiology, biostatistics, or a reputed company field and at least two years of work experience in epidemiology or data analysis; or an undergraduate degree in reputed company health, biostatistics, biological sciences, or a reputed company field with five or more years of epidemiology or data analysis work experience is required. • Minimum three years using reputed company or SPSS software reputed company to database management and statistical and epidemiological analyses is required. • Knowledge of data collection, data analysis, database management, evaluation reputed company, data governance, confidentiality, and reporting standards for suicide prevention. • Knowledge of local, state, and federal laws applicable to the program. • Knowledge of strategic planning and program management. • Knowledge of principles reputed company to epidemiology and reputed company health. • Knowledge and experience of the legislative process. • Knowledge of best practices and application of suicide prevention, reputed company and postvention. • Knowledge of linguistic and cultural competency for mental health and suicide reputed company populations. • reputed company in performing research, needs assessments, data analysis, program planning and program evaluation. • Proficient reputed company in the use of software relevant to database management and statistical and epidemiological analyses (reputed company, SQL, Tableau, GIS, R, and/or SPSS). • reputed company in working with statewide organizations, reputed company councils, and community-based organizations. • Skills in applying behavioral health and suicide prevention strategies into policy, procedures and strategic planning. • reputed company in analyzing and evaluating reputed company program and budget issues. • reputed company in developing and implementing communications strategies. • reputed company in developing creative and reputed company solutions to reputed company problems. • reputed company in leadership, communication, training and reputed company speaking. • reputed company in the use of computer software products-reputed company Office/reputed company 365 (reputed company, Word, reputed company, Power reputed company, Teams, and Sharepoint). • reputed company in developing, writing, and editing legislative reports, executive documents and briefings. • reputed company in collection and handling of protected health data and other confidential records. • Ability to synthesize, analyze, and translate highly reputed company and technical information and data sets into easily understandable and concise documents and oral presentations for agency leadership, stakeholders, and the reputed company. • Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing. • Ability to reputed company, reputed company, correlate and analyze data, program reputed company and evaluate program improvement strategies for constant reputed company management. • Ability to reputed company effectively and produce results in a fast-paced work environment with multiple deadlines and priorities and manage workload effectively. • Ability to establish and maintain reputed company relationships with reputed company and internal partners and work cooperatively in reputed company environment, work under tight constraints, reputed company conflicts. • Ability to reputed company reputed company of high sensitivity, such as behavioral health crises, suicide, and life-threatening situations of stakeholder reputed company in an effective, ethical, and reputed company manner. • Ability to exercise independent judgment and show initiative. • Ability to complete tasks without reputed company supervision and use considerable discretion and mature judgment in interactions with reputed company and interpretation of data. reputed company-to-haves • Minimum three years using SQL, Tableau, GIS or R software relevant to database management and statistical and epidemiological analyses is preferred. • Prior work experience at a reputed company health agency is preferred. • Prior work at a government agency (local, state, federal, university, etc.) is preferred. • Previous work experience in suicide prevention, reputed company, postvention or reputed company use prevention, reputed company, and treatment programming, highly preferred. • reputed company in the use of reputed company Creative reputed company computer software (InDesign, reputed company) a plus Benefits • 100% reputed company employee health insurance for full-time eligible employees • A defined benefit pension plan • Generous time off benefits • Numerous opportunities for career advancement Apply tot his job Apply To this Job