Dementia Adviser in Manchester

We have an exciting opportunity to join our talented and passionate team of Dementia Advisers in Greater Manchester. Within this role you will be providing dementia knowledge and expertise across Stockport, working in close partnership with the memory clinic and other providers. The role will include offering support within a hospital setting, supporting people after a diagnosis of dementia and having a presence to offer information sessions and networking with hospital staff to increase awareness and encourage referral and engagement.

The role will include facilitation of our popular Singing for the Brain group on a fortnightly basis. As a Dementia Adviser, you will have the rewarding opportunity of providing support, information and guidance to people with dementia, their carers and families, supporting them to maintain their independence, improve their sense of well-being, putting them in more control of their lives. The Dementia Adviser service is unique to everyone, based upon their personal circumstances and support needs. You will offer support in a variety of ways to include in people's homes or various locations within the community, face to face, by phone, letter or email. You will also support people to access other services, providing signposting and referrals.

About you

Passionate about supporting people to maintain their independence, improve their sense of well-being by enabling them to take more control of their lives. You have some knowledge or personal experience of dementia and the challenges people affected by dementia may face. Experience with communicating with a wide range of people, adapting your approach to ensure understanding at all levels. Able to network effectively and collaborating with other professionals to achieve a positive outcome for people. Experience of managing and supporting people within a group setting. Good IT skills, including experience working with databases and virtual meeting software (Teams / Zoom). Ability to organise your own work to ensure it is accurate, meets quality targets, deadlines and reporting requirements. The ability to travel across Greater Manchester independently as often as required.

What you'll focus on:

• Providing a person-centred and outcomes focused information and advice service to people affected by dementia and their carers.
• Identifying people's needs and the services they may wish to access, giving advice about how to live well with dementia and support the improvement of their sense of wellbeing.
• You will be community based which means working from home and spending time in the community completing home visits, attending networking meetings and promoting our service at events and occasionally giving dementia awareness talks to groups.
• You will aim to reach people affected by dementia from all communities and work hard to ensure your service is inclusive.
• Working with a variety of professionals from health, social care, voluntary and community sectors.
• You will build relationships to ensure referrals into our service, and you have knowledge of services and support available for people with dementia and carers living in Stockport.

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Alzheimer’s Society.

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.

Our hiring process aims to be as inclusive as possible, so please do inform us for application support or any adjustments you might need.

We are committed to safer recruitment and ensuring the welfare of those we work with, due to the nature of some of our roles, we might need to carry out a DBS check at the relevant level.

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance.