Spouse Team Representative

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Spouse Team Representative

Job Summary: Responsible for acting as a liaison between the executive Board and CISM spouse team members.

Accountability:

  1. Acts as liaison between spouse team members and the Executive Board. Communicates information about CISM activities and concerns to spouse team members at scheduled team meetings.
  2. Encourages and promotes the education of spouse team members as to the nature of critical incident stress and services of the CISM Team.
  3. Attends regular executive board meetings, and performs any assigned duties delegated by the Chair.
  4. Promotes and coordinates educational opportunities for spouses of emergency service professionals.
  5. Submits articles in the newsletter of upcoming training, educational opportunities and/or information of interest to CISM team members.

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Must be a spouse of an emergency service provider.
  2. Must be willing to support spouses through the debriefing process.
  3. Able to complete orientation training and participate in the annual training and other required training sessions.
  4. Ability to volunteer a flexible number of hours needed for support activities, i.e., subcommittee member, data research, in-house education etc.