Central Massachusetts Agency on Aging
Family Caregiver Support Program
Intern/Work Study Description |
| Title: |
Caregiver Support Associate |
| Reports to: |
Regional Caregiver Support Coordinator |
| Function: |
To provide the Central Massachusetts aging and caregiver networks with critical resources for professionals to improve their outreach and advocacy for caregivers and seniors. |
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Potential Duties:
Collaborate with the Family Caregiver Support Program staff to:
- Help establish community partnerships between the Caregiver Support Program and local businesses & corporations, member-based community associations and local town boards or groups.
- Update existing and organize new resource databases and inventories on SeniorConnection.org, Connection for Caregivers and in the CMAA Resource Library
- Research Internet & and print resources and gather information pertinent to Central Massachusetts seniors and their caregivers.
*****Work plans will be individualized in order to best accommodate each student's academic requirements, skills, interests and time availability as well as the agency's existing needs.
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| Working Relationships: |
| Internal: |
Regional Caregiver Support Coordinator and agency staff. |
| External: |
Outside community agency personnel, business community groups and organizations and elder service organization personnel. |
Qualifications:
- Excellent Communication skills to communicate effectively with staff and the public.
- Ability to communicate via telephone with a caller while accessing information from a personal computer.
- Sufficient hearing to understand incoming callers.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Detail oriented
- Organized
- Basic computer skills. Specific training provided.
- Sufficient manual dexterity to input data via PC keyboard
- Ability to sit for long periods of time while performing tasks
- Ability to grasp and lift materials (brochures/books) weighing up to 20 pounds
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