Advisor - Elder Awareness (M-2223-0059)

WORK LOCATION: Regional Eeyou Istchee

**SUMMARY OF THE POSITION**

Reporting to the DPSQA-Psycho-Social, the incumbent will support and promote local and regional coordination among all partners involved in combatting mistreatment of older adults. He/she will provide awareness and training on the phenomenon of mistreatment and help develop and implement a regional action plan to address local needs and issues with regard to mistreatment of older adults.

He/she will promote, support, or propose creating service trajectories throughout each region to ensure older adults mistreatment 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 counter mistreatment of older adults and other persons of full age in vulnerable situations. He/she will support and promote older adult’s well-treatment initiatives in the Advisor’s region.

**SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS**

1. Coordinate work and initiatives for a regional consultation committee on mistreatment of older adults, assist and take part in local discussion tables, and hold networking events as needed (annual partners day, theme-based seminars, etc.).

2. Sit on the Board’s Strategic Committee on mistreatment of older adults, which reports to the person responsible for implementing the policy to counter mistreatment and has representatives from a range of departments concerned with the mistreatment of older adults and other persons of full age in vulnerable situations.

3. Build and maintain relationships with other Québec partners to share and search for intervention models, coordination models, and tools.

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 combatting mistreatment of older adults.

5. Support regional initiatives to combat mistreatment of older adults or promote older adults’ well-treatment by submitting projects that the Board can finance through funding from the MSSS under this agreement.

6. Identify service continuum hurdles and challenges for mistreated older adults and work with stakeholders to find solutions.

7. Propose and support ways to coordinate with relevant Board departments and partners from the region to:

- Suggest priorities for service coordination and continuity;
- Propose suitable changes to ensure continued services and help implement them.
- 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 in mistreatment of older adults’ situations.

8. Identify issues with adapting and continuing to provide services, determine which ones cannot be solved locally or regionally, and report them to Secrétariat aux aînés.

9. Work with the Board and the Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology (CREGÉS) to provide training on systematic screening and intervention in cases of mistreatment of older adults as per Ministry guidelines under the Formation continue partagée (FCP) program.

10. Help roll out training for partners who provide older adults’ services on how to identify and address mistreatment of older adults and promote the well-treatment of older adults in and outside the health and social services network.

11. Help determine regional and local needs for mistreatment of older adults training among community partners and offer available programs where appropriate.

12. Coordinate the rollout of awareness workshops for older adults, including “It’s Not Right” (by training facilitators, for example), to help them identify mistreatment more easily.

13. Support and organize regional awareness activities (World Elder Abuse Awareness Day each June 15, etc.).

14. Educate community organizations, social economy enterprises in homecare services, and all relevant partners in combatting mistreatment of older adults (financial institutions, police officers, pharmacies, etc.).

**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,