Local Services Manager

About The Role

Are you looking for a leadership role where you can make a real difference to dementia services across Belfast and can support our wider work across Northern Ireland?

Do you have the skills to manage contracts, lead a team, and work collaboratively with internal and external partners? We’re excited to offer an opportunity as Local Services Manager for Belfast. This is a 25 hours per week home‑based role, but you’ll need to travel regularly across the region for meetings, engagement activities, and partnership work. Mileage claims will be paid from your door if you live in Belfast or the Belfast border if you live outside of Belfast.

You’ll work closely with other Local Services Managers across Northern Ireland to oversee delivery across the region. Your responsibilities will include managing contracts, leading a team of Dementia Advisers, a Singing for the Brain Leader, and overseeing a Carers Information and Support Programme, to ensure services align with our Help and Hope strategy and organisational values.

You will have:

• Experience in managing or supporting service delivery, ideally within health, social care or community settings or transferable experience from related sectors.
• Experience in leading teams and managing contracts.
• Passionate about improving services for people affected by dementia and committed to our values.
• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively across a dispersed team.
• Organisational and relationship‑building skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders and monitor performance.
• Be able to travel regularly across Belfast and maintain a strong local presence.
• Experience of utilising volunteer effort to enhance service output and to increase local presence.

Please don’t be put off from applying if you don’t meet every single requirement listed. We recognise the value of transferable skills and lived experience, and we’re keen to hear from candidates who can demonstrate potential, capability and a willingness to learn.

• Managing and monitoring contracted services and wider service delivery in the area.
• Leading and supporting a team of Dementia Advisers, a Singing for the Brain Leader, a Carers Information and Support Programme facilitator and volunteers.
• Working closely with other Local Services Managers and Local Communities and Volunteering Lead to ensure seamless delivery across Belfast and wider Northern Ireland.
• Building relationships with the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and wider partners in the Belfast area and beyond to enhance collaboration, positively influence and promote our work as a charity.
• Identifying opportunities to strengthen services and improve outcomes for people affected by dementia.

Interviews for this role have been provisionally scheduled to take place week commencing 13th April.

Dementia is the UK's biggest killer. One in three people born in the UK today will develop dementia in their lifetime.

At Alzheimer's Society, we’re the UK’s leading dementia charity and the only one to tackle all aspects of dementia by giving help and hope to people living with dementia today and in the future. We give vital support to people facing the most frightening times of their lives, while also funding ground breaking research and campaigning to make dementia the priority it should be.

Together with our supporters, we’re working towards a world where dementia no longer devastates lives.

Our values make sure that our focus is clear for the challenges and opportunities ahead and remind us of what we all stand for.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We need to ensure the voices around our table better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under‑represented at Alzheimer's Society.

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.

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