Dementia Adviser

**About The Role**:
**Location**:Community Based with home working, covering South East Northumberland.

Are you an
**enthusiastic**,
**inspiring**, and
**dedicated **individual looking for a rewarding and exciting new role?

Do you have a
**passion** to make a positive difference in the lives of those affected by dementia?

Do you have great
**organisational skills**, effective
**time management** and engaging but empathetic
**interpersonal skills**?

If this sounds like you, we would love to welcome you to be part of our friendly and supportive team

Delivering One-to-one Service advice and support out in the Northumberland community:

- Providing knowledgeable, compassionate, and trusted advice, guidance and support to people affected by dementia.
- Helping people understand dementia and how to cope with day to day living whilst preparing for the future.
- Assessing the needs of people affected by dementia.
- You will also assist service users to access other services, providing signposting and referrals.
- Empowering individuals living with dementia to maintain their independence, improving their sense of well-being, and putting them in more control of their lives, making informed choices about their own life.
- Networking and building meaningful relationships with a wide range of local organisations, promoting Alzheimer’s Society services to help people with a diagnosis to get referred to the service as early as possible.
- Working closely with Northumberland Memory Service and Primary Care Networks across the county.

**About you**
- An ability to assess and evaluate client needs along with the understanding of the need for client confidentially is essential to providing a valuable and worthwhile service.
- Excellent person-centred and non-judgmental communication approach and active listening skills.
- Great organisational skills to manage your caseload of clients effectively.
- It is desirable you have experience of coordinating others such as volunteers.
- Passionate about to putting people affected by dementia at the heart of everything you do, to make the service our best it can be.
- Great networking and influencing skills.
- Experience of developing relationships and liaising with statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Good IT skills and the ability to maintain records and write reports.
- Be able to travel independently across Northumberland.
- An understanding of dementia and the needs of those living with dementia and their carers.
- Be able to represent the needs of the organisation externally.

**N.B To give yourself the best possible chance of being shortlisted you need to provide full details and examples in the supporting statement based on the criteria in the person specification.**

**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, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer's Society.

We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do. During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and be at your best.