Seniors Community Connector

2 weeks ago

Abbotsford, Canada Archway Community Services Full time

**JOB POSTING 2024-70-02**
- INTERNAL/EXTERNAL
- Social Prescribing
- Seniors Community Connector
- Wage: $27.00
- Full Time, 38 hours per week, Monday to Friday
- Temporary - ending March 31, 2025, possibility of extension
- Location: Abbotsford ** Connect Seniors to Supportive Services available to them**
**Join the team at Archway**
**Come Help Us Help People**

**Location: Abbotsford**

**On Site**

**Job Summary**:
The Seniors Community Connector oversees the operation and delivery of the Social Prescribing Program. This position plays an integral role in bridging the gap between healthcare and social care. Clients are referred by Health Care Professionals and community partners. The Seniors Community Connector partners with the various community organizations to provide non-medical support to improve the overall health and wellbeing of older adults in the community. The Seniors Community Connector reaches out to socially isolated and disengaged seniors at risk of frailty and develops an appropriate wellness plan that connects seniors to community-based seniors support services and programs in Abbotsford. The Social Prescribing program has 3 main goals: 1) to increase social support, physical activity, and good nutrition for seniors at risk of frailty; 2) to support seniors in staying at home for longer; 3) reduce home health, GP, and emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

The Seniors Community Connector requires experience, training, and interpersonal skills to make meaningful connections and discern the unique needs of the seniors being referred. Through the interactions of the Seniors Community Connector with the local agencies and professionals, it will bring about a positive impact on the lives of the older adults and the community.

The goal of this position is to assist older adults to age safely in the right place by providing them with the social connections they require and build and maintain partnerships and connections of community-based seniors services in the local area.

**Your Role**:
Archway’s Seniors Community Connector with the Social Prescribing Program contributes by:

- Using an asset-based community development approach to identify and mobilize individuals, and organizations providing and supporting older adults.
- Engaging and participating in learning opportunities such as in communities of practice (COPs), planning tables, and/or networking events.
- Establishing networks and relationships with local service providers and advisory committees who serve socially isolated, disengaged seniors who are at risk of frailty.
- Connecting, liaising, and establishing partnerships with local health care professionals to create and maintain referral pathways.
- Receiving client intake information from the healthcare professionals and connecting with clients to begin the referral process. Clients are often socially isolated, disengaged seniors who are at risk of frailty.
- Maintaining an active caseload of seniors with short-term needs.
- Understanding hospital discharge procedures and assisting with and supporting seniors transitioning back home following discharge.
- Visiting seniors in the community, including in their personal residences.
- Completing initial client intake assessment and process to assess strengths, needs, abilities, and risks, using motivational interviewing techniques such as active listening, conflict resolution, and observing behaviour.
- Using various assessment tools to determine challenges, needs and risks related to healthy aging, and develops routines, structures, and resource referrals to reduce risk of frailty.
- Supporting seniors to access appropriate range of activities and suitable community resources by developing individual wellness plans.
- Using a “what matters to you” approach, referring seniors to community-based services, observing and assessing the participants’ engagement with the resources including emotional, psychological, and functional status.
- Picking up and dropping off clients for activities and picking up program supplies as needed.
- Assisting program team with planning, organizing, and delivering program events for clients and volunteers.
- Monitoring client progress at follow-up intervals and ensuring smooth transitions during program discharge.

This position is a great fit for someone has great interpersonal skills, and who wants to make meaningful connections with seniors and community organizations to respond to seniors’ unique needs, and who wants to make a positive impact on the lives of older adults and the community.

**Our Offer**:

- Wage: $27.00 per hour
- A full-time position at 38 hours per week, availability Mondays to Fridays, from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
- Temporary until March 31, 2025, possibility of extension.
- Benefits include:

- Three weeks vacation in your first year; four weeks in your second year.
- A great benefits plan including extended health and dental; you choose your plan.
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