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Job Posting

updated: February 14, 2025

Circle of Wisdom Indigenous Elders & Seniors Support Worker

Full Time Regular Position (1.0 FTE, 40 hours per week)

Position Summary

A review of your job description outlining, qualifications, responsibilities, and reporting relationship for this position will be completed on your first day.

Key Role & Responsibilities
Indigenous Elders Wellness and In-home Worker

  • Support growth and development creating programs to help support health, access to proper health information and bridge gaps in healing.
  • Empowering our elders/seniors with information on their own health. Supporting them to navigate health systems and any other support to live a healthier life
  • Workshops for elders to teach Children and youth a traditional way of life through learning culture
  • Supporting our elders in community and giving back to community
  • Support seniors transitioning into elders (elders consult), Space to understand what a true elder is.
  • Creating space for ceremony and for true understanding prayers and ceremony are essential
  • Information sessions to support Elders/seniors, creating safe environments so our seniors/elders can learn things they need to know when they turn 65, when they need to access health benefits and bringing those supports and information.
  • Indigenous Elders Senior Support Worker providing System Navigation and case management with supported referrals
  • Provide Opportunities for Traditional Ceremony and teachings with local Elders
  • Works with a variety of agencies and systems to review referrals and identify risks for the elderly
  • Participates in community engagement, awareness, and capacity building particularly in elder social issues.
  • Retains required program statistics, outcome data and information necessary for annual mid-term, year-end reports.
  • Data Entry and Stats
  • a willingness to embrace Indigenous culture as a pillar of practice and to add to their knowledge and understanding in this area.
  • strong teamwork skills

Knowledge and Core Skills
Indigenous Elder and Senior Support Worker

Indigenous Elders Senior Support Worker will demonstrate the following core competencies and experience:

  • Knowledge in Indigenous culture and ways of knowing.
  • Experience and success working with Indigenous communities.
  • Fluency in an Indigenous language would be an asset.
  • Relevant and demonstrable experience in project coordination, with a track record of successful delivery and implementation.
  • Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and drive engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, with particular focus on Indigenous Elders and seniors.
  • Strong leadership potential, with formal or informal experience.
  • Strong written and verbal communications skills, including aptitude for public speaking, building and delivering presentations to Indigenous Elders and Seniors. Community and facilitating large group sessions.
  • Proficiency coordinating through virtual platforms (i.e.Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, etc.).
  • Excellent administration and organizational skills, able to meet deadlines.
  • Proficiency with word processing, spreadsheets and databases, including a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Professional (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).
  • Able to work as a team player in a team environment.
  • Ability to communicate effectively; use of communication for motivation, planning and problem solving

Experience
Indigenous Elder and Senior Support Worker

  • University Degree in related field; or a combination of Education and relevant experience
  • Driver license, vehicle.

Please submit resume to hr@circleofwisdom.ca

Circle of Wisdom Elders & Senior Centre -210 #, 1603-10 Ave S.W. Calgary, Alberta T3C 0J7 Phone;
587.350.4789 info@circleofwisdom.ca or www.circlofwisdom.ca

Circle of Wisdom Elders & Seniors Centre
Our Elders and traditional teachings encourage us to acknowledge our resilience in “Keeping the Circle Strong” for generations and we will continue to do so for generations to come.  This also expresses how our traditional teachings come from Mother Earth.  She encourages us to live a life that will inspire and produce healthy future generations.  In “Keeping the Circle Strong” we honor the past, present, and future of our communities and continue to walk in the footsteps of our grandfathers and grandmothers.​

Contact Us:
587.350.4789
info@circleofwisdom.ca
www.circleofwisdom.ca

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CircleofWisdomCentre

Hours of Operations:
Monday to Friday
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Location:
#100, 1603-10 Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta,
Canada T3C 0J7

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