Senior Vitality Assistant

*Start Date: August 29th, 2022

The Senior Vitality Assistant's primary activities will be to provide health access and education to under-served communities (LGBTQ+, Low-Income, Non-English Speaking, People of Color) and will address the focus area of increasing seniors' (adults 50 and older) ability to remain in their own homes with the same or improved quality of life for as long as possible.

The Senior Vitality Assistant will also be a coordinator of our CAP (Consumer Advisory Panel) committee. In this role, the member will be involved directly with the consumers of Curry's programs, and will help the agency implement program updates, solutions and suggestions directly offered by the people that we serve. In this committee, feedback from our monolingual and immigrant communities is solicited for review and to assess how to improve our programs based on their needs. In addition, the NHC member will be included in all mandatory staff training related to Racial Equity initiatives for the agency.

• Providing outreach to agencies to build awareness,
• Creating and developing communications related to outreach campaigns
• Obtaining feedback to improve on communication materials
• Developing and providing health education for the community
• Providing outreach to stakeholders to identify issues
• Gathering data on critical issues impacting the community
• Utilizing data to schedule education sessions
• Providing education to clients and refer them to providers
• Providing health education to at-risk populations,
• Attending trainings and/or community events,
• Responding to and tracking requests through online services
• Maintaining an inventory of supply materials for
• Patients, clients, and/or organizations
• Developing and distributing new materials geared towards patients, clients, and/or organizations
• Creating basic curriculum and revisiting and revising it
• Recruiting students for classes on health,
• Teaching classes/workshops in-person and remote on health
• Providing outreach in the community to promote services
• Linking clients from community organizations to services
• Meeting with referral staff to ensure that clients receive services
• Creating and implementing surveys to assess program effectiveness
• Developing new program materials to aid reach, scope, and effectiveness
• Networking with the community,
• Doing educational presentations,
• Developing educational materials,
• Collecting and tracking of data
   

• Outgoing, Patient, Energetic, Confident
• Good with patient populations,
• Open-minded, Non-judgmental, Compassionate, Approachable
• Excellent communicator
• Experience with developing programs/curricula,
• Good with diverse personalities, Good interpersonal skills
• Multi-tasker; ability to balance; Ability to work in deadline-oriented environment, Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Interest in health, social justice, and policy issues
• Commitment to social justice
• Desires to empower community
• Detail-oriented
• Team player; Works well with others; Good listener
• Thinks creatively,
• Organized; sound organizational skills
• Good customer service skills,
• Good telephone skills,
• Proficient computer and data entry skills (e.g., Microsoft Suite)
• Passion for health topics

• Skill with Microsoft Office or other software for a variety of data processing operations involving a range of problem solving, record keeping, correspondence, and service tracking options

• Curry Senior Center requires the placed member to have full COVID-19 Vaccination dosage.
• Experience supporting older adult populations and/or low-income neighborhoods and communities is ideal, but not required.
• Special safety regulations or precautions that must be observed
• NHC member needs to be comfortable walking through streets with drug use/ sales out in the open

• Language Skills are not required, but helpful to have additional languages!