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Community Dementia Adviser
| Posting date: | 25 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £21,060 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2025 |
| Location: | West Bromwich, West Midlands |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | West Bromwich African Caribbean Resource Centre |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | DH/AMM/Jobs |
Summary
We seek a Community Dementia Advisor, to support people with dementia and their informal family carers to identify their needs, maintaining their independence, and empowering them to make decisions enabling them to remain in control of their lives. This is part of a wider network of dementia advisers working within Sandwell.
Summary of Job Description
The ‘Community Dementia Adviser’ will be responsible for addressing wellbeing and social support needs of people diagnosed with dementia and family carers. Working as part of a team, ‘Community Dementia Advisers’ will focus on the strengths, interests and talents of people with dementia to offer social opportunities and meaningful engagement in community activities.
Key dimensions:
Following the agreed ‘service pathway’, ‘Community Dementia Advisers’ will:
• Work with individuals living with dementia and their family carers, providing maintenance support and ‘call care’ according to the service casework model.
• Work collaboratively with Dementia Navigators to facilitate interventions for people with dementia and their families requiring ‘intensive’ support during periods of transition, complexity and crisis, involving statutory sector services as appropriate.
• Recruit, deploy and support volunteers, to encourage and facilitate people with dementia and family carers to participate in group activities; and to offer one-to-one befriending for individuals experiencing dementia, helping to provide respite for carers.
• Lead initiatives to create dementia friendly communities in the locality where they are based.
Main duties and responsibilities:
• To promote the ‘Sandwell Community Dementia Support Service’ within own local town, developing a network of support from health and social care professionals, encouraging referrals to the service through the ‘Single Point of Access’ at the earliest opportunity.
• To provide structured support to both the person with dementia and their carer for all allocated cases, following the agreed service pathway.
• To record within the shared CRM database (Charity Log) all actions undertaken and action points to follow up, as required, throughout the person’s journey with dementia.
• To co-develop with individuals with dementia and their carers and supporters, an agreed wellbeing/support plan, building on the initial assessment of the Dementia Navigator
Summary of Job Description
The ‘Community Dementia Adviser’ will be responsible for addressing wellbeing and social support needs of people diagnosed with dementia and family carers. Working as part of a team, ‘Community Dementia Advisers’ will focus on the strengths, interests and talents of people with dementia to offer social opportunities and meaningful engagement in community activities.
Key dimensions:
Following the agreed ‘service pathway’, ‘Community Dementia Advisers’ will:
• Work with individuals living with dementia and their family carers, providing maintenance support and ‘call care’ according to the service casework model.
• Work collaboratively with Dementia Navigators to facilitate interventions for people with dementia and their families requiring ‘intensive’ support during periods of transition, complexity and crisis, involving statutory sector services as appropriate.
• Recruit, deploy and support volunteers, to encourage and facilitate people with dementia and family carers to participate in group activities; and to offer one-to-one befriending for individuals experiencing dementia, helping to provide respite for carers.
• Lead initiatives to create dementia friendly communities in the locality where they are based.
Main duties and responsibilities:
• To promote the ‘Sandwell Community Dementia Support Service’ within own local town, developing a network of support from health and social care professionals, encouraging referrals to the service through the ‘Single Point of Access’ at the earliest opportunity.
• To provide structured support to both the person with dementia and their carer for all allocated cases, following the agreed service pathway.
• To record within the shared CRM database (Charity Log) all actions undertaken and action points to follow up, as required, throughout the person’s journey with dementia.
• To co-develop with individuals with dementia and their carers and supporters, an agreed wellbeing/support plan, building on the initial assessment of the Dementia Navigator