Dementia friendly communities coordinator jobs
How's your job search on our site?
Job Summary
The Volunteer Coordinator is a National Lottery funded role supporting our Post-Diagnosis Support Programme and ensuring that volunteering is embedded across ReMind UK. This is a proactive role which would suit someone with great organisational and people skills who enjoys supporting individuals and groups and working on a variety of activities. The role will work with ReMind UK's Engagement team identifying and creating volunteering opportunities across the organisation, managing recruitment through community work and marketing, and implementing stewardship and evaluation processes for volunteers and ambassadors. As a key part of our Post-Diagnosis Support Programme, the role will ensure volunteers have an outstanding experience, working in a positive environment.
ReMind UK overview
ReMind UK is an independent charity and internationally renowned centre for research, diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Our research aims to improve life for people with dementia and their families and carers, and to find drug and non-drug treatments for people with conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and other diseases predominantly affecting older people. Our contracted NHS Memory Clinic service, private memory assessments and allied activities provide support to people affected. We are currently in an ambitious phase of development looking to increase our clinical and academic research programme. We work closely with the Universities of Bath, Bristol and other research Institutions, both nationally and internationally and with the Royal United Hospital, Bath.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Oversee recruitment of ReMind UK’s volunteers through building relationships and partnerships in the community and establishing effective recruitment materials and channels.
2. Work with the ReMind UK team to identify opportunities for volunteer roles to support and add value to the business.
3. Collaboratively create role descriptions and person specifications for volunteer roles.
4. Identify barriers to engagement, particularly from under represented groups and communities experiencing exclusion, and develop accessible new opportunities to engage potential audiences.
5. Support the Post-Diagnosis Support Programme Manager to identify opportunities for beneficiaries to support post diagnosis courses and events through volunteering.
6. Create and maintain accurate Risk Assessments for all volunteer roles and activities.
7. Ensure volunteers receive an excellent onboarding experience including induction and training.
8. Regularly check-in with volunteers and support ReMind UK staff to effectively manage and support their volunteers.
9. Ensure that volunteers deliver a high quality experience to beneficiaries while adhering to the objectives of their role in line with good practice and any health and safety guidelines. Ensure that they are well supported and supervised and that any training needs are identified and addressed in a timely manner.
10. Produce and regularly refresh volunteer materials including handbook and welcome pack.
11. Work with ReMind UK’s Marketing colleagues to keep the website up to date with volunteering opportunities and stories and provide engaging content for social media.
12. Maintain volunteer and enquirer data on the charity’s CRM ensuring compliance with GDPR and agreed data retention protocols at all times.
13. Monitor volunteering and community outreach activity through regularly collecting quantitative and qualitative insight, producing quarterly reports as requested by Head of Engagement.
14. In collaboration with Head of Engagement, design and deliver a stewardship programme for volunteers ensuring consistency of approach and continued improvement, building a sense of inclusion and value for volunteers and ambassadors.
15. Maintain a thorough understanding of Health & Safety issues around working with volunteers and ambassadors and ensure that all feedback, accidents or incidences are recorded, evaluated and used to adjust activities accordingly.
This job description is intended to provide a broad outline of the main responsibilities only.
Interview date: W/C 7th September 2026
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Age UK Wandsworth is a local, independent charity that works to promote the wellbeing of all older people in the London Borough of Wandsworth. We offer a variety of services with the goal of helping older people to #AgeWellinWandsworth. Our charity is consistently growing, so we are creating this new role to support our CEO with social media, marketing and organising events.
The role will suit someone who is calm, mature, professional, organised and creative and will be comfortable working directly with a creative and curious CEO committed to transforming the charity’s online presence.
What we can offer you:
You'll be joining a vibrant workplace where no two days are the same, working as part of a small, supportive team that is committed to making a positive difference in the community. You'll benefit from an experienced leadership team, collaborate with kind and caring colleagues who genuinely work together, and even have the company of a friendly hypo-allergenic office dog.
Due to the nature of the work that we carry out, our staff work from our office, day centre and in the community. Therefore, please note that unless it is otherwise stated, all roles advertised will require the successful candidate to work on-site.
Employee benefits:
- 5% employer’s pension contribution
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee shopping benefits scheme
- Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- Employee recognition and reward programme
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Our mission is to help older people to age well in Wandsworth.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Hours:28 hours per week Mon – Thurs. Working hours 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. with one-hour unpaid break.
Contract: Fixed term until 31st March 2027, with the possibility of extension
Responsible to: Nightingale Service Manager
Location: Richmond upon Thames - User homes, community locations, office (White House Community Centre, Hampton), from home, hospitals – as required by service. Home Working in line with Hybrid Working Policy.
Salary: £32,000 FTE DOE plus 5% pension contribution. Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Blue Light card and Age UK discount schemes.
Join a great team providing support to local older people when leaving hospital.
Age UK Richmond upon Thames is a local independent charity supporting older people across the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. We provide a wide range of useful and well utilised local services in Richmond upon Thames designed to improve wellbeing and enhance independence – including information & advice; a wide range of social & wellbeing centres and sessions; support after hospital discharge; digital skills development; Dementia Friendly Richmond; mental health peer support and home services such as handyperson, housekeeping and gardening. Partnership is a core part of our work – we work in close collaboration with other voluntary sector partners and wider organisations to maximise our impact and reach. Our friendly and committed team of 50 staff and 100+ volunteers support over 4,000 local older people each year.
We currently have an excellent administrator opportunity for flexible and proactive individual to join our Nightingale Home from Hospital service, which provides much needed free support to local older people who have been discharged from hospital or become unwell in the community – with a particular emphasis on those living alone and without family support. Our
Our small team of team & volunteers are involved in organising and delivering tasks which facilitate a speedy hospital discharge and make homes safer to avoid admission – including fitting keysafes, moving furniture, shopping, giving advice and coordinating with health & social teams.
This busy role will include:
- Liaise with referrers, clients, their families and carers to identify the support required upon hospital discharge.
- Developing a holistic plan of support working with others and be able to personally deliver aspects of this support including practical tasks. This could include but is not limited to information & advice, moving furniture, preparing the home for discharge, shopping and organising transport. This will involve working directly in the homes of clients.
- Recording all referrals, actions, progress and data via a CRM / database.
- Ensure the individual receives the support/services they need – working and communicating with staff, referrers, clients, family members, carers, social workers, hospitals and other Age UK Richmond and voluntary sector services.
We are looking for an individual who has experience in a similar health , social care or voluntary sector setting and is willing to take a hand on role. A good level of IT skills is also required.
Access to a vehicle is required for the role.
Please click apply to be taken to our website and full details on how to apply. Application deadline is 9 a.m. on Monday 27th July 2026 with interviews on 30th July 2026.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
Provide support to help local older people to live healthier, happier and more independent lives.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.