Job Description

About The Role

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

This is an amazing opportunity to lead our Dementia Support services team in South Wales.

You will be a systems leader, influencing, networking, and collaborating with our partner organisations. You will also be actively contributing to the regional Dementia Standards workstreams, ensuring we support the delivery of the Wales Dementia Action Plan in South Wales.

As a Local Services Manager you will provide leadership and management to local service teams across South Wales, holding responsibility for the management and delivery of specific contracts, while supporting the Country Manager \xe2\x80\x93 Local Services to deliver the Alzheimer\xe2\x80\x99s Society\xe2\x80\x99s Help & Hope strategy.

You will lead the local delivery of services across a designated area, ensuring that those services are of high quality, person centred, safe and that people affected by dementia are at the heart of all service delivery.

You will have direct line management responsibility for Dementia Advisors who provide support and guidance to people with dementia using a person-centred approach.

The Local Services Manager will report directly to the Country Manager \xe2\x80\x93 Local Services and will be a member of the Wales management team. There will be a requirement for travel across the designated area with expenses paid in accordance with our expenses policy.

Our people are our greatest asset, and it is only through our people that we will achieve our strategy, therefore we are looking for an inspirational Leader who will truly role model our organisational values.

About you

As a Local Services Manager you will be someone who can demonstrate the ability to build and nurture relationships with stakeholders to ensure that the lived experience of people with dementia is shared widely so that it can influence decision making, service quality and delivery, in line with our strategic priorities. We are looking for someone who has knowledge of key roles in the Health & Social Care sector and is confident in managing relationships within this sector, to ensure we are the go-to organisation for all things dementia related.

You will have experience as a great people manager having led teams to deliver high performance outcomes and work collaboratively to provide an excellent service. We want someone who role models our values in all they do, who can work effectively with internal teams to achieve mutual outcomes. You should have experience of successfully managing change from start to end and will need to be highly organised and able to manage multiple competing priorities. You will be someone who can work well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

To be successful in this job you will have a positive and proactive attitude to challenging situations and problem solving, using a collaborative and engaging approach with your team.

About Alzheimer\'s Society

At Alzheimer\'s Society, we believe passionately that life doesn\'t end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.

Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heart of this organisation.

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\xe2\x80\x99t 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.

Alzheimer\'s Society