Postvention Community Response Coordinator - Nepean Blue Mountains Region
29 July 2025
About StandBy Support After Suicide
StandBy is Australia’s leading suicide postvention program dedicated to assisting people and communities bereaved or impacted by suicide.
StandBy builds community preparedness and resilience through extensive training to community and professional groups to ensure effectiveness and that duplicated effort is avoided. The program offers coordinated evidence-based support and resources (including connections to local services and groups) that is individualised for each person’s unique circumstance. StandBy is guided by local advisory groups – which includes community stakeholders as well as those with Lived Experience.
StandBy is a program of Youturn Limited.
About Youturn
Youturn is a national not-for-profit which delivers Health and Community Services to vulnerable people of all ages across Australia. Trusted to deliver safe, inclusive, and supportive programs, Youturn ensures that those we support can have access to secure and affordable housing and enjoy optimal mental well-being, allowing them to thrive and live a healthy, meaningful life.
For more information about their work, visit
www.youturn.org.auAbout the Role
As the Postvention Community Response Coordinator, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining strong networks across mental health services, emergency responders, government agencies, and community organisations. Your work will help ensure integrated, early interventions in the aftermath of suicide, while strengthening community readiness, capacity, and resilience.
This is a key regional role that supports both immediate and long-term community needs, through effective coordination, stakeholder engagement, training delivery, and data-informed planning.
Key Responsibilities
Service Delivery & Operations
- Coordinate postvention responses in collaboration with local services, schools, emergency services, and stakeholders
- Lead Postvention Action Groups to enable safe, effective support after suicide events
- Identify service gaps and drive improvements in referral pathways and regional response
- Facilitate training to enhance local capacity for suicide prevention and grief support
- Record and report on postvention activities, risks, and outcomes
- Support data collection and contribute to regional and national reporting frameworks
- Collaborate with Community Collaborative partners, to support the planning, coordination, and delivery of joint suicide prevention training initiatives that respond to local needs and strengthen community capacity.
- Identify systemic barriers or service gaps and escalate insights to inform regional policy, planning, and commissioning processes to the PHN.
- Implement the National Community Collaboratives Toolkit by developing the Postvention Response Protocol and associated Response groups in areas of need in PHN Region, with support from Community Collaborative partners.
Stakeholder & Community Engagement
- Build and nurture collaborative relationships with service providers, community leaders, and diverse population groups
- Develop and maintain a regional service directory for postvention pathways
- Represent StandBy in local networks and working groups
- Foster culturally safe engagement with Aboriginal, CALD, LGBTQIA+ and other priority communities
- Promote awareness of StandBy services in collaboration with communications teams
- Actively contribute to the Suicide Alliance including participation in backbone coordination meetings, supporting shared strategy development, and aligning postvention work with regional planning efforts
Compliance & Quality
- Ensure postvention responses are safe, ethical, and aligned with best practice.
- Monitor risk and escalate appropriately.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of shared measurement indicators for suicide prevention efforts. Support collaborative evaluation activities, including capturing outcomes, community feedback, and data sharing with funding partners.
- Use local suicide data to inform strategies and improve service integration.
About You
Youturn are looking for a strategic, empathetic, and proactive community connector who thrives in complex environments and brings people together in times of need.
You will have:
- A tertiary qualification in Human Services, Mental Health, Social Science, Counselling or similar
- A deep understanding of suicide bereavement and its impacts on individuals and communities
- Demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and systems coordination
- Strong communication, planning and organisational skills
- The ability to work autonomously, meet deadlines and juggle competing priorities
- A current driver’s licence and willingness to travel across the Nepean Blue Mountains region.
Why Join Youturn?
- A meaningful role supporting communities through loss and recovery
- A dynamic and supportive national team environment
- Ongoing professional development, supervision and wellbeing support
- Flexible work arrangements and salary packaging benefits
Benefits for Youturn Team Members
- Generous remuneration package with benefits designed to support your career and lifestyle goals.
- Enjoy 12% superannuation plus access to generous salary packaging of up to $15,900, plus $2,650 meal entertainment benefits, to further maximise your take-home pay, offering you even greater advantages such as partial exemptions for Remote Area Benefits, Relocation Expenses and Car Parking (if eligible).
- Flexibility: Enjoy work-life balance with flexibility for negotiating start/finish times, tailoring your career to your lifestyle!
- Wellness Leave: Recharge with 5 days of paid wellness leave each year (pro-rata).
- Paid Parental Leave: Unlock 12 weeks of paid parental leave benefits after just one year of dedicated service.
- Annual Leave Loading: Receive additional pay with annual leave loading
How to Apply
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