About The Role
Are you a dynamic leader ready to shape the future of dementia support in your community? At Alzheimer’s Society, we’re looking for a Local Services Manager who’s not just operationally excellent—but visionary, compassionate, and driven to make a real difference.
This is your opportunity to lead from the front—empowering teams, influencing local systems, and ensuring that people affected by dementia receive the support they need, when they need it most.
This role offers a unique opportunity to join the delivery of a contract that is currently in its implementation and development phase. You’ll play a key role in shaping how services are delivered, contributing to the design, refinement, and continuous improvement of systems and processes. If you thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy building from the ground up, this is your chance to make a lasting impact.
As a Local Services Manager, you will be home-based, with visibility across the Essex & Hertfordshire area. You will lead and inspire geographically dispersed teams, working as part of a wider Area Management Team to deliver excellent services.
Interviews will take place on the 10th and 11th September.
What You’ll Lead
1. Strategic Delivery: Turn national strategy into local action, ensuring services are impactful, inclusive, and responsive.
2. Team Empowerment: Inspire and develop high-performing teams of staff and volunteers, fostering autonomy and innovation.
3. System Influence: Build strong partnerships with commissioners, health and care leaders, and community organisations.
4. Service Excellence: Ensure quality, compliance, and continuous improvement across all local services.
5. Equity & Inclusion: Champion diversity and ensure services reach underserved communities.
What You Bring
1. Proven leadership in health, social care, or the voluntary sector.
2. Strong understanding of commissioning, governance, and compliance.
3. Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
4. A passion for equity, inclusion, and lived experience leadership.
5. A strategic mindset with a hands-on approach.
Your work will primarily involve operational leadership of dementia support services, including busy group service delivery. You will have opportunities to build relationships and engage with external stakeholders, including Local Authorities, Health colleagues, and Commissioners within an Integrated Care System setting.
About Alzheimer’s Society
We are the UK’s leading dementia charity, dedicated to tackling all aspects of dementia by providing help and hope to those living with dementia today and in the future. We support individuals facing challenging times, fund groundbreaking research, and campaign to prioritize dementia awareness and care. Our goal is a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.
Our values focus our efforts and remind us of what we stand for. We are committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, and we encourage applications from individuals with disabilities, impairments, health conditions, or from minority ethnic backgrounds, as these groups are underrepresented in our workforce.
Our hiring process is inclusive and supportive, with anonymized applications until interview and accommodations available upon request. We value your authentic self and experience in our process.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including a generous pension scheme, 27 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and wellbeing days, free health benefits, wellbeing resources, flexible working policies, and recognition schemes. We also provide additional perks like a free Will-writing service and long service awards.
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