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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION

Employer
University Health Services
Location
Wisconsin, United States
Salary
Salary Commensurate with experience
Date posted
May 23, 2022

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Position Type
Executive, Executive Directors, Other Executive
Employment Level
Tenured/Tenured Track
Employment Type
Full Time

UHS strives to promote, protect, and restore health and well-being. We are an integrated health care facility that fully integrates our prevention, medical, and mental health services. Within UHS, the Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives team is committed to creating a healthy and safe campus and community using public health tools of data, communications, capacity building and policy, systems and environmental change. This work is informed by our values of empowerment, authenticity, creativity, data-informed practice, and equity.

This Assistant Director for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention will be one of three Assistant Directors in our unit, focusing on violence prevention, high risk drinking prevention and mental health promotion and suicide prevention. While your work will focus on decreasing the risks of mental health issues and suicide on our campus and in our community, as a team we are all working together to reduce the root causes of many of our campus health concerns including power, privilege, racism, and discrimination. Your team members will work across all our issue areas in functional teams focusing on data, communications, coalition building, training and education, policy and health equity.

This position's primary responsibilities will include:

-Supervise a team focusing on capacity building, policy advocacy and development, data, and communications.
-Serve as campus leader for mental health promotion and suicide prevention through membership on campus committees and workgroups, availability for consultation to campus and community partners, and representation at public events focused on the prevention of mental health issues on campus.
-Closely work with Mental Health Services at UHS to ensure a full continuum of services is available to campus in collaboration with each other's work.
-Provide leadership for the Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives teams by developing and aligning with a strategic direction for our work, ensuring continuous quality improvement in our efforts, and aligning our work with our efforts towards health equity.

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