Dementia Adviser

**About The Role**:
**Location**:Community Based with some home working elements role to cover Shropshire, working within Primary Care networks (21hrs)

**About the role**

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

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.

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**

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 within their communities.

We are looking for:

- Working experience of assessing people face to face with an ability to assess their needs and an understanding of the need for client confidentiality.
- Excellent non-judgmental communication skills.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Good IT skills and experience working with databases.
- Have demonstrable experience.
- An empathetic approach with a commitment to equal opportunity.
- The ability to travel independently across the area.

If you have the qualities, we’re looking for and are passionate about improving the quality of life for people with dementia, then we want to hear from you

**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.