Description
SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
Reporting to the DPSQA-Psycho-Social, the incumbent support and promote local and regional coordination among all partners involved recognizing and supporting caregivers. He/she will provide awareness caregivers realities and help develop and implement a regional action plan to address local needs and issues with informal caregivers.
He/she will promote, support, or propose creating service trajectories throughout each region to ensure informal caregivers' situations are promptly addressed in close coordination with relevant Board departments.
The incumbent will work with regional committee members to coordinate, roll out, and implement, in their respective regions, the Québec-wide framework agreement and concerted intervention processes to support informal caregivers. He/she will support and promote Informal caregivers' initiatives in the Advisor's region.
SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS
1. Support communities and organization in developing a service trajectory for informal caregivers in consultation with partners and existing services
2. Coordinate work and initiatives for a regional consultation on caregivers in local discussion tables, and hold networking events as needed (annual partners day, theme-based seminars, etc.).
3. Produce and keep up to date the portrait of the informal care needs, and inventory of services and resources to be adapted or developed for Cree communities and organization.
4. Advise and make recommendations to key bodies and authorities, including the MSSS, on priority actions, service trajectory problems, or any other issue involved in supporting and recognizing informal caregivers.
5. Support regional initiatives in supporting and recognizing informal caregivers or promote by submitting projects that the Board can finance through funding from the MSSS under this agreement.
6. Develop services to support informal caregivers: promotional and prevention activities, training, recognition of the role of informal caregivers, identification, referred, needs assessment, care plan development, implementation of interventions and support for informal caregivers etc.
7. Develop and adapt training tools and materials in line with the needs of Cree communities and organizations.
8. Develop and maintain a network of contacts with coordinators specializing in informal care and regional coordinators and various partners in the Quebec health and social network to support and recognized informal caregivers.
9. Coordinate and facilitate committees with internal and external partners in order to develop an integrated approach to informal care.
10. Participate in committees and events related to their field.
11. Promote the Framework Policies the Act to recognize and support caregivers, the politique nationale pour les personnes proches aidantes and Plan d'action gouvernmental pour les personnes proches aidantes among informal caregivers and organization.
12. Ensure monitoring activities in the area of informal care, adaptation and continuity of services in order to make recommendation for improvement to optimize the continuity and complementarity of services informal caregivers.
13. Propose and support ways to coordinate with relevant Board departments and partners from the region to:
o Suggest priorities for service coordination and continuity;
o Propose suitable changes to ensure continued services and help implement them.
o Make sure the Board understands the need to enter into collaborative and information-sharing agreements with community partners, when necessary, to ensure continuity of services Informal caregivers' situations.
14. Help determine regional and local needs for Informal caregivers training among community partners and offer available programs where appropriate.
15. Support and organize regional awareness activities (National Caregivers' week in November, etc.).
16. Educate community organizations, social economy enterprises in homecare services, and all relevant supporting and recog
REQUIREMENTS
Education and experience: * Bachelor degree in a profession related to the health and social services sector;* Three (3) years' experience in service/program planning, management or supervision that includes clinical experience with elderly people;* Experience in project management;* A certificate in management is an asset;* Member in good standing of his/her professional order if relevant.
Knowledge and Abilities:
- Good knowledge of the MSSS and Quebec Health Care programs, laws, regulations, Network, orientations and trends especially for community health, protection, promotion and prevention;
- Excellent knowledge of the challenges related to an aging population and the impact on services;
- Good knowledge of clinical services practice, current issues and trends, and program planning, supervision and quality assurance systems;
- Knowledge of the strategic management of: health programs, integrated programming, professional and organizational interdependence, information management, and evaluation;
- Good knowledge of interdisciplinary team functioning and leadership;
- Knowledge of, or ability to grasp the issues and context related to First Nation health and social services;
- Good knowledge of operational planning, organization and coordination, budget planning and financial management and; human, material and information resources management;
- Ability to apply Eeyou (Cree) culture, values, traditions and teachings into programs and services;
- Ability to deal with pressure and respect of deadlines, to propose solutions to improve accessibility, quality and continuity of customer services as well as work organization in order to contribute to updating the continuum services;
- Ability to both manage the planning and development of new programs, and the maintenance and quality assurance of existing programs;
- Excellent critical thinking, planning and organizational skills as applied to planning;
- Results-oriented, autonomous, flexible, and ability to multi-task;
- Excellent interpersonal communication, leadership and respectful teamwork skills;
- Excellent communication skills, both for written and oral presentations;
- Team player and great ability to maintain quality interpersonal relationships with colleagues, partners and clients;
- Serve as a positive role model for staff and clients;
- Good working ability with administrative computer applications, especially Office applications.
LANGUAGE* Fluent in Cree, English and French.
OTHER* Willing to travel.
