Circle of Healing Project Coordinator Position Available
Below please find the job description for the Circle of Healing Project Coordinator. This position is available immediately to Backyard Community members, CHAT Teams, Commissioners. If you are interested please call the Cultural Wellness Center or send your resume to the attention of Ariele Strachen by December 22nd, 2011.
Circle of Healing Project Coordinator
Purpose- To coordinate the activities and the work flow of the circle of Healing CHAT. The Circle of Healing CHAT consists of practitioners and community members including by not limited to Complementary and Alternative Healers, Elders, Cultural workers, Peer specialist, Navigators, Allopathic health professionals and other caregivers. The Circle of Healing Coordinator will assist this group in formalizing the community care giving system and in making the effective linkages between Practitioners in order to better support the Integral Approaches to health and healing.
Accountabilities
Working under the supervision of the Cultural Wellness Center Elder, the full-time position coordinates all activities that are planned by the Circle of Healing CHAT members of the Allina Backyard Initiative. The Coordinator will assist in care delivery, coordination, collaboration and comprehensive cultural education and knowledge exchange.
Responsibilities
- Orientation and education for building group consciousness and group functioning
- Coordinating and organizing practitioners and needed resources
- Be responsible for recruitment and enrollment of community members and traditional and non traditional practitioners
- Develop enrollment process criteria
- Provide orientation for CHAT members to the BYI values, principles and procedures
- Support the planning and delivery on Integral Framework care giving and BYI model training
- Create resource directory and list of participating practitioners
- Create intake and assessment protocol and referral process for the continuum of care offer by practitioners and community care members.
- Provide ongoing participant and practitioner consultation
- Provide ongoing support and collaboration as well as training for practitioners who are CHAT and Circle members
- Assist community members/ participants in searching for the underlying causes of presenting conditions
- Engage people to taking responsibility for their health and getting the information they need to be well.
Qualifications
- Creative, Flexible, Innovative in reference to healing and health knowledge
- Ability to grow with the Circle of Healing CHAT members over time
- Self Starter, self confidant and self aware
- Excellent computer skills/excel
- Bilingual a plus (Spanish/ English, Somali/English )
- Good understanding of medicine reconciliation and a willingness to learn
- Excellent understanding of an Integral framework, collaboratively working and partnering
- Excellent organizational skills: able to develop a tracking system for CHAT Circle of Healing (contact info, times available, description of healing work, certifications /license /experience/ statement of purpose etc.)
- High School education / B.A. a plus
- Good note taker: able to take notes/keep track of CHAT meetings, outcomes, goals, actions to be taken
- Excellent listening skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills within and across cultures
