Position: Group Support Worker
Location: Bedford
Hours: 21 hours per week
We have an exciting new opportunity to support the facilitator delivering our Music 4 Memory service and other group activities in Bedford and Mid Bedfordshire.
An exciting role for someone looking to build their skills and experience in an innovative approach to helping families affected by dementia live as well as possible
These may include:
- Services to support people with dementia to continue to enjoy a wide range of cognitively stimulating activities in a safe, enabling and non -anxious environment.
- Services to offer opportunities for people with dementia and their supporter to enjoy a range of social activities together. These may include music groups, drop -in groups or physical activity groups.
Work location:
- This work will be community-based in locations across Bedfordshire. There may be some occasional travel to the main office in Bedford.
Key Duties
- To support the group facilitator to deliver groups, services and activities for people with dementia and their families across Central Bedfordshire
- To help ensure we provide a safe and ’non anxious’ welcoming environment for families affected by dementia.
- To help deliver a range of cognitively stimulating, appropriate and meaningful activities
- To ensure the health safety and wellbeing of service users and volunteers whilst attending services and groups.
- To work alongside a team of volunteers to deliver a meaningful, quality opportunity and welcoming environment for people with dementia and family carers.
- To maintain clear records of attendance and client payments.
- To ensure privacy and confidentiality protocols adhered to.
- To attend regular team meetings, currently fortnightly on zoom.
- To feedback concerns regarding service delivery or concerns regarding individual clients to group facilitator.
- To work within the ethos of Tibbs Dementia Foundation to provide quality, reliable, welcoming and positive services.
- This list is not exhaustive, and the support worker will be expected to work in a versatile and flexible way. Being a team member, taking initiative and working with creativity, enthusiasm, positivity, and a common- sense approach are key attributes for working with Tibbs Dementia Foundation.
You will have:
Ability to work as part of a team
Strong organisational skills to maintain clear records
An understanding of the importance of ensuring health and safety measures are in place and to take responsibility and be committed to supporting the facilitator to ensure all activities are undertaken safely.
Ability to work flexibly and to embrace change and opportunity
Good time management and reliability
Ability to travel independently across Central Bedfordshire
An understanding of the needs of people with dementia, the issues facing vulnerable adults, confidentiality and safeguarding and of the needs of their families
It would be desirable if you have worked with volunteers and have an understanding of the value they bring to an organisation
Background:
Tibbs Dementia Foundation is a rapidly growing charity and currently with opportunities to develop services across the whole of Bedfordshire. The charity provides a wide range of quality activities and services for people living with dementia. We have a strong team of paid facilitators who deliver these services and who are supported by a dedicated team of trained and experienced volunteers. We have embraced a hybrid system of working through both face to face and digital opportunities and this is enabling us to increase our service provision and to add flexibility and greater access to support.
As we develop our services and reach across Bedfordshire we are supporting and welcoming an increasing number of people to our dementia community. We are now in a position to extend the services and activities we offer across Central Bedfordshire and we are looking for a dynamic and experienced facilitator to help us to establish and lead these.
This is a role for someone with some experience and understanding of supporting people with dementia and their families to continue living as well as possible, A role for a team player supporting the facilitator to deliver quality and meaningful activities and services across Bedfordshire. You will have good communication and organisational skills, and a common- sense, pragmatic positive approach, versatile and agile, and to be able to work in a busy, growing and developing environment.
We are committed to providing a wide range of quality, accessible and meaningful activities to people at all stages of dementia as well as their family supporter.
The person with dementia is at the heart of all we do. We focus on what people can do, supporting them to take measured risk, to seize new challenges and opportunities and to remain active valued members of our community, with a right to self-expression and who support each other to live as well as possible day by day.
If you’d like to be part of our great charity, working with a fantastic team making a positive difference every day, email sarah@tibbsdementia.co.uk or phone 01234 210993 for more details.
