COMMUNITY OUTREACH OFFICER
Spinal Injuries Ireland?s mission is to engage with people with a
spinal cord injury and their family members, to address barriers to
full participation in society and to empower members to work towards
achieving personal, social and vocational goals.
POST OUTLINE:
This role is case management based in Cork and delivers goal-oriented
support for all allocated service users in order to provide a depth of
service and national coverage. The role also provides practical and
ongoing support for family members of service users with a spinal cord
injury in the community. A key element of the role is to collaborate
and build relationship with key stakeholders including CUH Trauma
Centre for southeast region and associated trauma centers.
REPORTS TO: Head of Services
BASE: Cork: Crann Centre, Ballincollig
HOURS: Full time - **Apply on the website**.5 hours per week
QUALIFICATION/EXPERIENCE
* A degree or professional qualification in social work, community
development, social care, or related field.
* Experience in needs assessment, project planning and project
delivery, evaluation and report writing.
* An understanding of approaches/strategies required to address
social and health inequalities at service design level.
* An understanding of approaches/strategies required to address the
practical impacts of living with a spinal cord injury and chronic
disease management, and health equity at both regional and national
level.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
* Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
* Facilitation and training skills.
* Excellent organisational, administration and co-ordination skills.
* Excellent ICT skills, including MS Office suite, MS Teams and a
good working knowledge of data base management.
* Ability to work effectively with co-workers and collaborate with
health and social care professionals, community organisations and
others to maintain and build partnerships, to maximise the impact of
joint resources.
* Proactive and flexible in approach.
DESIRABLE, BUT NOT ESSENTIAL:
* Experience of working in the healthcare or community development
sector.
* Experience of working with different population groups including
disadvantaged groups.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Engage with all service users and family members from time of
injury for as long as required.
* Clearly define further short, medium and long-term goals with
service users and provide support as required in this regard.
* Ensure focus on tangible outcomes for service users that are both
measurable and meaningful and facilitate return to employment,
community activity and / or economic improvement.
* Contribute and deliver to the education and psychosocial
programmes.
* Promote and refer to SII volunteer Peer Support Programme.
* Coordinate and ensure successful delivery of SII services
developed for people impacted by SCI.
* Deliver and report on the KPI?s identified by the Strategic
Operational Plan.
* Ensure the quality assurance of programmes and work for the
continuous improvement of each service.
* Ensure effective monitoring and evaluation of Service Users needs
and progress.
* Report on key indicators agreed for each area of work, and
document and report on programme learnings.
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
* Actively support the NRH / SII Vocational Programme as advised by
Head of Services.
* Engage with Major Trauma Center in CUH and key stakeholders by
providing support to those who have sustained a SCI and their
families.
* Collaborate with the key stakeholders such as Crann Centre,
promoting SII services.
* Work to develop new relationships with other relevant agencies to
support the ongoing development of evidence informed programmes to
respond to the specific needs of people impacted by SCI.
* Build effective relationships with SII colleagues and work in
collaboration to contribute to the successful delivery of the
organisational strategy.
GENERAL
* Assist with special projects as required or self-determined to
enhance the capacity and/or programmatic objectives.
* Represent SII at relevant meetings and conferences.
* Travel throughout designated region of responsibility, other SII
regions and head office as required. Regular overnight stays may be
required in respect of travel.
* Other duties as required by manager.
_This list of duties is not intended to be exhaustive, but to reflect
the main duties of the position and is subject to change.? Any other
duties may be allocated from time to time consistent with the
position, business plan and strategic plan._
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Offer subject to reference check and Garda Vetting.
Please send CV and cover letter to Mary Dunne ? **Apply on the
website**
Closing Date:? **Apply on the website**nd ?October **Apply on the
website**
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Health
