About The Role
We are offering a great opportunity to join our team as a Dementia Adviser, providing personalised information and advice to people worried about their memory, diagnosed with dementia and their carers!
As a Dementia Adviser, you will have the rewarding opportunity to provide support, information, and guidance to people with dementia and their carers; helping to maintain their independence, improving their sense of well-being, and putting them in more control of their lives.
The service is unique to each service user as it is based upon their personal circumstances and support needs. You will offer support to your clients in a variety of ways, whether in the client's own home, or at other locations in the community, face to face, by phone, letter, or email. You will also assist service users to access other services, providing signposting and referrals.
You will be working in the County Durham community.
Interviews will take place on the 2nd September
What you’ll focus on:
1. Providing a person-centred and outcomes focused information, advice and support service to people affected by dementia and their carers.
2. Identifying people’s needs and the services they may wish to access, give advice about how to live well with dementia and support the improvement of their sense of wellbeing.
3. You will be working from home, but you will be spending time in the community completing home visits, promoting our service at events and giving dementia awareness talks to groups.
4. You will also run a Singing for the Brain group once a month.
5. The area covered is County Durham, however, we split the County into the 5 old District Council areas. You will cover one of these areas predominantly.
6. Travel expenses are only paid for travel within the area specified. Being able to travel independently is an expectation of this role.
7. You will work with a variety of other professionals, such as GPs, memory clinic staff and other health and social care services.
About you:
8. Able and interested in supporting people to maintain their independence, improve their sense of well-being, and help them take more control of their lives through assessment and outcomes.
9. 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 diagnosis or support requirements this would be taken into consideration.
10. Experience with communicating with a wide range of people, adapting your approach to ensure understanding at all levels.
11. Able to network effectively and collaborate with other professionals to achieve positive outcomes for people.
12. Good IT skills, experience working with databases and virtual meeting software (Teams / Zoom).
13. The ability to travel across the local area independently when and often as required.
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