Dementia Adviser

**About The Role**:
**Location**:Community based within South Staffordshire.

**Contract**: 2 year fixed term contract.

Are you looking for a
**rewarding** and
**challenging** career in advising people affected by dementia?

Do you feel you could you help people maintain their
**independence**, improve their sense of
**well-being** and enable them to take more control of their lives?

Would you thrive in a
** stimulating** role where every day is different?

If yes, we are offering a great opportunity to join our team providing personalised advice, guidance and support to people diagnosed with dementia and their carers

You will be joining us at a very exhilarating time as we embark on delivering a new targeted outreach service working in partnership with Burton MIND.

We are looking for someone to support the equality and diversity agenda. Ethnic minority groups are underdiagnosed, under-represented, and under supported in South Staffordshire. This role will ensure that our dementia advice and support is accessible to seldom heard from groups, it will involve building trust and relationships within these communities and local community groups.

The project will run for 2 years, and the aim is to: support people from our underserved communities to access a diagnosis, increase the awareness of dementia, improve access to support groups, reduce health inequalities through education and relationships, and support in navigating through the dementia pathway.

The Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Support service involves dedicated members of staff giving one to one support, information, and guidance to people with dementia or their carers and wider family or friends, to help people understand dementia, cope with day to day living with dementia and prepare for the future. As part of your role you will also coordinate, organise, and facilitate awareness raising events and Dementia Friends sessions in the community to inform, educate, and support those affected by dementia

This role will require you to build relationships with a range of local contacts. You will network with health and care professionals, marketing Alzheimer’s Society services to help people with a diagnosis to get referred to the service as early as possible. As well as developing networks with partner organisations to promote the aim of empowering individuals living with dementia to make informed choices

**About you**

We are hoping to welcome an approachable and knowledgeable Dementia Advisor to work alongside our South Staffordshire team. This is an amazing opportunity to have a rewarding career providing support and guidance to people with dementia and their carers. We strive to help people to maintain independence, improving their sense of well-being, and putting people in more control of their own lives. We promote a person-centred service so that our support is unique to each individual, based upon their own aspirations and needs. We provide information, guidance and support in people’s homes and across the community of South Staffordshire.

We are looking for:

- Working experience of assessing people face to face with an ability to assess their needs.
- Deliver advice and guidance with a non-judgmental approach and outstanding communication skills.
- Strong organisational and time management skills to manage your caseload of clients effectively.
- Good IT skills and be able to travel independently across South Staffordshire.
- Good presentation skills and confident in speaking to an audience.
- An understanding of dementia and the needs of those living with dementia and their carers would be an advantage but if you have had experience supporting with other challenges this would be taken into consideration.

**About Alzheimer's Society**:
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.

Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.

**Our Values**

We are **Determined to make a difference** when and where it matters most, by being passionate, focussed and making a lasting impact for people affected by dementia.

Every one of us is a **Trusted expert**, listening, learning and using evidence and experience. We are **Better together** by being open, combining our strengths, helping us to achieve more together. We are **Compassionate**, we are kind and honest, and we don’t shy away from challenges.

Through our values we will make the greatest difference for people affected by dementia.

**Equal Opportunities**

We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support,