Local Services Manager

Are you a compassionate and focussed leader, who can provide a supportive and inclusive environment for your team, working openly, combining our strengths and helping us to achieve more together? 
Are you skilled in networking and negotiating forging trusted relationships with internal and external key stake holders, to make a positive difference in peoples lives who are affected by dementia?
Are you experienced in managing local Health and Social Care services, including compliance, quality and team management?

Yes? Then please let us tell you more about this fantastic opportunity we have at Alzheimer's Society!

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.

We are currently offering two amazing opportunities to lead Dementia Support services in Cwm Taf Morgannwg - Bridgend (21 hours) and Merthyr Tydfil & Rhondda Cynon Taff (28 hours).

Our Bridgend service is a brand new and exciting service working within the Community Network teams, integrated with partners in Health, Social Care, and the Third Sector. This is an amazing opportunity for someone with proven networking and negotiating experience to be part of a flagship service for the area to increase reach, impact, and collaboration between integrated services.

Our Merthyr Tydfil & Rhondda Cynon Taff opportunity is within a developed and established service, with a growing team. This would suit an experienced leader from a Health and Social Care background with a particular skill in developing external networks and partnerships, working towards collaboration and integration.

About the role

As a Local Services Manager you will provide leadership and management to local service teams, holding responsibility for the management and delivery of specific contracts, while supporting the Wales Country Manager to deliver the Alzheimer’s Society’s 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. The direct line management responsibility for Dementia Advisors who provide support and guidance to people with dementia using a person-centred approach will lie with the successful individual. 

About you

To be successful in this role, 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 Cwm Taf Morgannwg. 

As a Local Services Manager you will;

- 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. 
- Possess 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.
- Have gained previous experience as a great people manager having led teams to deliver high performance outcomes and work collaboratively to provide an excellent service. 
- Role models our values in all they do, who can work effectively with internal teams to achieve mutual outcomes. 
- Have experience of successfully managing change from start to end and will need to be highly organised and able to manage multiple competing priorities. 
- Be someone who can work well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Have a positive and proactive attitude to challenging situations and problem solving, using a collaborative and engaging approach with your team.

*The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role. 
 
Closing date: 10th June 2024. 

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’t 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.