Role – Dementia Adviser (Telford)
Hours – 21 per week
Location – Telford with homeworking elements.
Interviews - Wednesday 29th October at The Roy Fletcher Centre - 12 – 17 Cross Hill, Shrewsbury, SY1 1JE.
About the opportunity
As a Dementia Adviser (known locally as Dementia Link Worker), you will have an enormously rewarding opportunity to provide support, information, and guidance to people living with dementia; 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 work closely with the Telford Dementia Assessment Service to offer support to people following a new dementia diagnosis through to residential care or end of life. In this role within South East Telford Primary Care Network, you will offer support to your clients by phone, letter, email, virtually or in person home visits within the Telford Area. You will also assist service users to access other services and community activities, by providing signposting and referrals.
About you
Join us in making a real difference in the lives of people living with dementia and their carers. This is a wonderful opportunity to offer meaningful support and guidance, helping individuals stay independent and feel more in control of their lives. We believe in a person-centred approach - tailoring our support to each person's unique needs, goals and aspirations. Whether it's in someone’s home or out in the community, we are there to provide the right information, guidance, and encouragement step of the way.
Your role will include:
• Being a named, trusted contact for people with dementia, helping to offer and deliver post personalised support.
• Facilitating established dementia drop in’s and supporting local peer groups and community networks, whilst looking out for new opportunities.
• Keeping in touch with individuals, from diagnosis through to residential care or end of life.
• Supporting local peer groups and community networks.
• Managing your own caseload and referring people back to health professionals when required.
What you’ll need:
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of people, adapting your approach to ensure understanding. Also to speak publicly at events about dementia, delivering information and signposting people to further resources and networks.
• Strong IT skills for keeping detailed and confidential records on our database and using virtual meeting software (Teams / Zoom).
• Ability to support people with additional support needs to maintain their independence, improve their sense of well-being, and help them take more control of their lives.
• To be conscious to reach out to our many forms of support when dealing with emotional and difficult topics.
• The means to travel around Telford to face to face meetings with people you support and to local events around the Telford area.