Role Summary

This role involves delivering community services to people with epilepsy, their families and carers, and to health professionals and the wider community. The services that we deliver in each region include one-to-one support, information & advice services, support groups, regional support groups, workshops, talks and seminars, training to health care professionals, and epilepsy awareness talks in schools. Services are delivered both in person and virtually. 

The local community resource officer is responsible for delivering the service in Dublin North / Kildare and across the country where needed.  

Duties:

One to one support work (face to face and online):

• To provide appropriate information and support services to individuals on a one-to-one basis – including people with epilepsy, parents of children with epilepsy, family members and carers, and health professionals and wider community.
• To facilitate the Living Well with Epilepsy ‘Toolkit’ programme. 
• To provide hospital and community outreach services on a one-to-one basis.
• To provide a listening and understanding ear.
• To provide advocacy and case management approaches where a service user is unable to advocate for themselves or refer to national advocacy services where appropriate. 
• To act as a resource to the service user and advise them of entitlements, education, employment and other areas of their social and economic life and signpost / make appropriate referrals to other relevant services.
• To encourage membership of Epilepsy Ireland and to engage the service users in other services that Epilepsy Ireland offer, where appropriate.

For a full job description, please visit our website https://www.epilepsy.ie/content/were-hiring-community-resource-officer-north-dublin-kildare