Dementia Advisor and Volunteer Coordinator Services in North West London

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NHS Shared Business Services awarded a contract to Age UK Kensington and Chelsea for the provision of a Dementia Advisor and Volunteer Coordinator in North West London.

The project worker recruits, manages, and works with a team of volunteers who encourage older people to be more active and go outside, attend medical appointments, join in with activities, go on outings, and help at the Westminster Memory Cafés in the North and South of the Borough.

The aims include improving access to primary care and community health services by supporting individuals to attend appointments, and reducing health inequalities, particularly in deprived and vulnerable communities, by empowering local people to improve their own health through supporting clients to attend exercise classes and dementia cafés to improve social connections, general wellbeing, and physical fitness where they would otherwise be unable or unlikely to attend unaccompanied.

The contract value is AUD 57,750.