Safety Coordinator

About the Organization

WellPower envisions a community where every person's mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

• Person Centered: We honor people's identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.
• Exceptional Care: We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery.
• Integrity: We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do.
• Organizational Resilience: We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship.

WellPower is a large, well-established, innovative, and vibrant community mental health center that provides outpatient mental health services to individuals recovering from serious and persistent mental illness. The organization is rapidly expanding and adding services to its portfolio.

About the Role

Safety Coordinators implement and expand safety programs across the entire organization. This position will primarily focus on supporting our outpatient clinical and residential teams by helping the Risk Management team in the development and implementation of safety programs and procedures to support current and new service offerings.

Responsibilities

• Develop safety programs and procedures, including site-specific safety guides, with expansion into residential teams.
• Hold regular site-specific safety meetings with outpatient clinical locations and residential teams.
• Deliver training focused on safety and emergency response topics, including tools such as Alert Media, panic buttons, overhead paging systems, emergency door locks, and site safety emergency checklists, while identifying and addressing deficiencies.
• Identify safety improvement opportunities, compliance concerns, and possible safety risks by conducting frequent site audits.
• Assist in identifying adverse safety trends and help develop plans to address them, collaborating with Program Managers, Directors, and Executives.
• Assist in addressing union representatives' concerns regarding safety, when requested.
• Assist in managing, auditing, investigating, and responding to Confidential Incident Reports (CIRs).
• Facilitate and support safety drills/workshops, including fire and severe weather drills and active threat workshops.
• Support Risk Management's efforts to ensure compliance with organizational safety program expectations and applicable federal and state laws.
• Manage the security video surveillance system, including reviewing/archiving incident footage, troubleshooting camera errors, and supporting staff with system use.
• Serve as liaison between WellPower and local law enforcement and emergency response departments, as appropriate.
• Serve as an active member of WellPower's Disaster Response Team.
• Assist in responding to contacts made to the Risk Management phone line and email.
• Complete administrative duties and special projects, such as participation in presentations, research, and program development.
• Assist in maintaining an environment of well-being using an equity lens and trauma-informed principles.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in a safety-related field.
• Minimum 1 year of health, safety, and/or environmental-related experience.
• Able to maintain confidentiality in matters involving safety, security, and/or personnel issues.
• Experience with OSHA regulations.
• Frequent local travel between sites in Denver is required.
• Experience working in the behavioral health field is a plus.

Work Location & Schedule

Primary Site: 4141 E Dickenson Pl, Denver, with the expectation to physically visit all WellPower locations at some frequency.

Shift/Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 AM-5 PM (may require occasional evening or weekend hours). Hybrid schedule with expectation to work at a WellPower site 3 times per week.

Physical Requirements

This largely sedentary role requires frequent computer use, effective communication, manual dexterity for typing, and visual acuity for reading and analyzing on-screen data. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Pay

$30.77-$37.02 per hour. The posted range represents the full hiring range. Offers will not exceed this range; the majority of candidates are placed near the midpoint based on experience and qualifications.

Benefits

For a complete overview of our robust benefits, visit: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice/.