Job Details: ALONE Services: mPower Community Navigator (Support Coordinator)


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ALONE Services: mPower Community Navigator (Support Coordinator)


MPOWER COMMUNITY NAVIGATOR (SUPPORT COORDINATOR)

ALONE supports older people to age at home. We provide direct,
frontline services to people aged **Apply on the website** and over,
through support coordination, befriending and support, housing with
support, co-living, and the application of assistive technology. We
have more than 2,**Apply on the website** volunteers and **Apply on
the website** plus homes for people who are homeless or at risk of
homelessness. We have been awarded Quality Marks from Volunteer
Ireland, the ISO, the Charities Regulator and the Housing Regulatory
Standard.

The MPOWER PROJECT supports citizens in the **Apply on the website**+
age group. This single "cross border" service provides care across
Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland and supports health, social
care partnerships, identifying citizens at risk who could benefit from
a social prescribing service, and/or technology enabled care
interventions. MPOWER is a project supported by the European Union?s
INTERREG VA Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.

ALONE and the mPower Project are partnering to appoint a Community
Navigator (Support Coordinator) in the CHO8 region (Louth, Meath,
Monaghan and Cavan).

ROLE OVERVIEW

The role will be responsible for the development and implementation of
a programme focussing on Health and wellbeing action planning, in
order to ensure local project goals are achieved. The role will also
support the local mapping of care and community based services to
update the suite of community assets and services available in
personalised care and facilitate independence and build on individual
capacity and resilience.

You will hold responsibility for managing a comprehensive caseload to
support and advocate for services for older people in and across all
care settings, to enable and empower older people to age well at home.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Manage and lead the response to complex cases including, but not
limited to, issues regarding emotional wellbeing, housing issues,
health difficulties and vulnerable persons at risk of abuse.
* The identification of citizens at risk via agreed risk
stratification tool, which will be identified and developed with the
mPower project team.
* Carry out comprehensive assessments (in person or by phone) with
older people to ensure that all aspects of the older person?s needs
are identified, supported and resolved and that any risks are
mitigated.
* Development of personalised long and short term Health and
wellbeing action plans and Digital services, focussing on a holistic
model of support and care
* Undertake a gap analysis of information on community support
options/available services and develop an action plan to provide for
identified needs. Map the range of local support and care service
available.
* Develop, build and maintain relationships with all key
stakeholders, to include statutory and non-statutory services, older
people, carers and volunteers.
* Organise and lead stakeholder engagement events on themes which
promote, wellbeing and digital literacy as required
* Co-produce new policies with stakeholders to develop digitally
integrated health and social care structures.
* Compile reports and papers relating to performance for project
team, this will require the Community Navigator to use statistical
software to extract data from the relevant systems in order to report
to the relevant stakeholders.
* Advocate for the needs of Older People and engage with other
organisations/groups and deliver presentations to partners, local
health and social care teams, and the general public/beneficiaries.
* Recruit, train and support volunteers, volunteer leaders to work
safely and to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with older
people availing of our services.
* Maintain necessary confidentiality relating to the work of the
service and regarding older people, staff and partner organisations
and in line with guidance in the use of the ALONE Management
Information System (MIS) and data protection policies and procedures.
* Develop and maintain referral pathways to ALONE?s Support
Coordination services.
* You may be required to undertake additional duties or tasks as
required.

During the COVID-**Apply on the website** response, you will be mainly
working from home and you will be provided with all equipment and
devices to enable you to do this.

SKILLS AND BACKGROUND

* Self-motivated person who is committed to ALONE and mPower?s
mission is essential.
* Able to maintain the highest standards of confidentiality,
discretion and respect is essential.
* High level communication skills (both written and verbal) and the
ability to network and negotiate effectively with individuals, groups
and stakeholders, is essential.
* Previous experience in social care settings is desirable.
* Good computer literacy, with experience of using case management
systems is desirable.
* Excellent organisational skills, report writing, solution focused
skills and multi-tasking skills are desirable.

FURTHER DETAILS

* This role is **Apply on the website** hours per week and these
hours may be required to be worked in a variety of flexible patterns,
e.g. 5 over 7 days, compressed hours or other flexible working
patterns as required.
* Regular travel and remote working is required with this role with
adaptable working arrangements available to facilitate this
flexibility.
* This role will involve developing services across the CHO8 region
(Louth, Meath, Monaghan and Cavan).
* Remote Induction and training will be carried out on commencement
in role.
* The salary scale offered for this position is ?**Apply on the
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TO APPLY

Please send a copy of your CV along with a cover letter stating what
interests you about working with Alone, the role and your availability
to **Apply on the website**. The closing date for applications is
Friday, **Apply on the website**th of October **Apply on the
website**.

_ALONE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER._


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