Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator - Days

Job Summary: The Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator leads the strategic design, implementation, and evaluation of injury and violence prevention programs required to maintain Level I Trauma Center verification. This role analyzes trauma registry and epidemiological data to identify injury trends and develops evidence-based, multi-level interventions across patient, organizational, and community settings throughout the hospital’s service area and the State of Texas. The Trauma Injury Prevention Coordinator serves as a key liaison between hospital operations and internal and external partners, supporting regulatory compliance, cross-sector collaboration, and measurable improvements in community injury outcomes. This position directly impacts and is responsible for trauma center verification status, and measurable improvements in community injury outcomes, requiring a high degree of autonomy, subject matter expertise in regulatory requirements and systems-level changes.

Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities:

1. Researches, designs, implements, and evaluates comprehensive, evidence-informed injury prevention strategies using public health frameworks (e.g., primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention models and the social ecological model), integrating trauma analytics into community-facing programming to address priority mechanisms of intentional and unintentional injury across the hospital’s service area, region, and the State of Texas.


2. Reviews comprehensive analysis of mechanisms of injury leveraging trauma registry data, EMR data, and community level public health data sets to identify trends, disparities, and high-risk populations for injury. Turns data into practice strategies to inform strategic prevention planning, resources allocation, and measures to reduce intentional and unintentional violence and injury through program implementation and Education.


3. Directs and implements Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for each viable trauma patient admitted ensuring regulation compliance, workflow integration, and quality assurance. Utilizes advanced Motivational interviewing techniques and behavioral health screening tools to reduce recidivism, re-injury, and improve longitudes outcomes and providing appropriate referrals and education during the SBIRT process.


4. Provides and contributes to prevention by participating in local and state conferences relative to scientific evidence informed research, policies, strategies and evaluation.


5. Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) / educator for providers, interdisciplinary teams by developing as needed programmatic curriculum, toolkits, and strategies to expand organizational and programmatic capacity and public formats.


6. Engages, supports and functions as a liaison between multidisciplinary coalitions across healthcare system, public health, community-based organizations, law enforcement, and academic partners to establish shared injury prevention priorities, measurable goals and cross sector implementation strategies.


7. Plans, organizes and delivers public facing education and professional presentations on injury and violence prevention, translating data into accessible, actional messages for diverse audience including health care professionals, policy makers, community stake holders, and public.


8. Partners with Community Affairs and Communications Departments to develop strategic messaging campaigns, grounded in trauma data analytics, ensuring accurate alignment with district wide injury prevention and public health initiatives.


9. Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.