Description

Dementia Support Worker

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Doncaster
Salary: £20,363 - £21,603 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience)
Working Hours: 35 per week

Closing Date: 16 January 2022
Interview Date: 25 January 2022

Reference number: VAC2657

Please note the deadline for submitting applications for this vacancy is midnight on the closing date

Our client is the UK's leading dementia charity. We provide information and support, improve care, fund research, and create lasting change for people affected by dementia.

About the role

This role will take the lead in the organisation and delivery of their groups in Doncaster in addition to one to one provision of dementia support. The role is community based and will involve working from home, delivering groups in the community and visiting people with dementia and their carers in their home when needed. If successful you will be working as part of a team of three Dementia Support Workers.

The Doncaster Dementia Support service involves dedicated members of staff giving one to one support, information and guidance to people with dementia, their carers and supporters to help people to understand dementia, to cope with day to day living with dementia and prepare for the future by getting the right support in place. Their groups provide an opportunity to meet regularly and talk about living with dementia in an informal social environment. They provide opportunities for people with dementia, family members and carers to ask questions of professionals, learn from the experiences of others, gain information about dementia, local services and practical tips about living well with dementia.

As a Dementia Support Worker you will have the rewarding opportunity to provide support, information and guidance to people with dementia and their carers; 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 offer support to your clients in a variety of ways, whether in the client's own home, or at other locations in the community, face to face, by phone, letter or email. You will also assist service users to access other services, providing signposting and referrals.

This role will require you to build relationships with a range of local contacts. You will network with health and care professionals, marketing their services to help people with a diagnosis to get referred to the service as early as possible. As well as developing networks with partner organisations to promote the aim of empowering individuals living with dementia to make informed choices.

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