Dementia Coordinator

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: PO2 £41,442 – £44,331 per annum
Interview Date:  20th February 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 9th February 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

The role of Dementia Co-ordinator is a new and exciting opportunity here at Haringey Council. The right candidate will steer our way to recreate our Dementia Action Alliance, bringing together community groups, businesses and individuals to commit to be more dementia friendly in their practices. You will advise and guide people in their commitments and follow up to offer guidance and check on progress. You will establish monthly meetings for the network and create an agenda reflecting the themes of that month.

You will be working with a wide variety of teams, primarily our bespoke dementia service, our learning disability hubs and our ICB colleagues.

About you

We are looking for a highly experienced Dementia Co-ordinator with a track record of building managing a dementia friendly network.

You will be willing and able to develop and deliver bespoke dementia training and have experience of dual diagnosis to include learning disabilities and mental health. You will have experience of producing high level reports demonstrating personal impact on residents and of running co-production groups and will be able to evidence co-production techniques with adults with dementia. You will have experience of working across borough to create new partnerships and resource sharing opportunities. 

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may end be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk