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Advertising Salary
£25,952 - £28,055 Per Annum
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External Advertising End Date
17 Oct 2024

About The Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for an motivated individual to join us as a Community Development Coordinator!

 
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

About the role
 
Location: Kingston
Contract type: Permanent 21 hours

Our Local services Teams deliver a range of Dementia Support services across the 3 nations to people living with dementia, either on a one-to-one basis or as a group, and either face to face, over the phone or virtually.  

You will have excellent people, interpersonal and networking skills to work as a Community Development Coordinator. You will be determined to make a difference, encouraging, and influencing key stakeholders and organisations to make evidenced based changes, that will have a positive impact for those affected by dementia.  

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Alzheimer’s society Dementia Support team in Kingston. Working in the community, identifying dementia specific health inequalities, ensuring people and teams have access to information, to building networks and relationships to enable people to connect, delivering an inclusive service for everyone in the borough affected by dementia.

 

About you

The successful candidate should be an empathetic, motivated and professional individual who wants to make a difference to those affected by Dementia. Whilst the criteria below are not essential, they will be beneficial for the role:

  • Ability to communicate to a wide variety of individuals.
  • Able to adapt language style to suit a diverse range of people.
  • Competent in using computers / Microsoft applications. 
  • Able to manage and plan workload.
  • Deliver presentations at meetings.
  • Occasional working out of hours.

Alzheimer’s Society have recently been named on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023! We have achieved excellent scores for workplace happiness, pride, and job satisfaction.  This is a fantastic achievement and we’re incredibly proud as this is fantastic indication of how far we’ve travelled over the past few years.

We would love to welcome more outstanding people to join our exciting journey to make the greatest difference for people affected by dementia.   

 
Closing date: 17th October 2024
Interview date: 23rd and 24th October 2024

About Alzheimer's Society

Dementia is the biggest health and social challenge of our time.

There are currently estimated to be 900,000 people in the UK with dementia. Many are undiagnosed and facing the realities of their condition alone.

At Alzheimer’s Society we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives. We do this by giving help to those living with dementia today and providing hope for the future. We’re here for everyone living with dementia.
 
As a Society, we are made up of people with dementia, carers, trusted experts, campaigners, researchers and clinicians. We are the UK’s largest collective force of people with unparalleled knowledge and over 40 years of experience addressing the biggest challenges facing people living with dementia.

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.

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