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Overview

This is designed to support families of decedent\'s investigated by the OCME and support OCME staff and investigators interacting with families.

Examples of work:\ Provide outreach services to families of decedent\'s investigated by the OCME.\ Directly contact family members and/or respond to their inquiries, shortly after the death (day/days) and again weeks/months later, serving as their continued point of contact for general information\ following the initial scene investigation, such as information about OCME procedures and case status, and funeral/cremation processes.\ Assist with answering in-coming calls to the OCME during regular business hours to identify families that need a higher level of support and triage calls to other OCME staff.\ Assist with developing informational, educational, or outreach materials (e.g., written or web-based) Determine what type of services families need and assist them with establishing those services as able.\ Establish a rapport with families that facilitates healthy bereavement and successful information exchange and link them with community or professional services, such as grief and trauma support, tissue donation services or research groups, scene clean-up and pet placement, crime victim\ services, survivor support groups, and economic services for decedent disposition, etc.\ Develop and maintain excellent working relationships and coordinate with the state victim services specialists, local hospital social workers/decedent affairs specialists, and local funeral directors to meet the family\'s needs.\ Assist the OCME in gathering additional insight into the behavioral, psychological, or environmental factors contributing to the decedent\'s injury and their social determinants of health.\ Identify survivors interested in and willing to participate in additional conversations and data gathering\ Identify and/or design screening tools and interview content and procedures for various types of\ fatalities to supplement data used by local, state, and federal initiatives, including but not limited to injury and violence prevention grants and programs, state Fatality Review Teams, or other entities.\ Perform detailed interviews with engaged survivors weeks to months following deaths of unnatural manner and undetermined cause (e.g., suicide, overdose, domestic violence-related, maternal, and child fatalities) and participate in use of these data for public health initiatives.

\ Duties will be performed under the direction of the Chief Medical Examiner (or their designee), supervised by the Assistant Medical Examiner Coordinator.

This position is limited service but is a full-time position with benefits. It is supported by grants that we expect will continue into the future.

Environmental Factors

Duties are performed in an office setting at the OCME in Burlington, VT, by telework as approved by the employees direct supervisor or Chief Medical Examiner, and occasionally in the field. Cases will include regular exposure to death investigations and scene photographs, stories of traumatic events, and grieving persons in crisis. The successful employee must be resilient and able to work in stressful situations. Frequent conversations with emotionally distraught people in grief, crisis, and other difficult situations should be expected.