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Service Coordinator - Ageing Well Southwark Lead

Our Service Coordinators play a key role in delivering our high-quality services for older people and people with dementia living in the London Borough of Southwark. You will be responsible for assessing the needs of the older people referred to us and tailoring the support offered to them based on their individual needs and interests.

Our service offer includes: Ageing Well Southwark (hub-based provision); volunteer befriending; exercise, social and activity groups; a regular newsletter; dementia specific services and parties and events. Each Service Coordinator has lead responsibility for a number of groups as well as an identified area of work.

In this role you will take the lead for Ageing Well Southwark (AWS). Ageing Well Southwark is a contractual arrangement with the local authority to deliver hub-based provision for older people across the borough. This is delivered as part of a partnership arrangement with the Consortium of Older People’s Services in Southwark (COPSINS). The Consortium is made up of Age UK Lewisham and Southwark who are the lead partner, alongside Blackfriars Settlement, Southwark Carers, Southwark Pensioners Centre and Time and Talents.

Your role will oversee our drop in provision at the Tessa Jowell Health Centre as well as supervisory responsibility for the Ageing Well Southwark Assistants and the volunteer digital buddies. You will be responsible for maintaining accurate and up to date records on our shared CRM system and help maintain positive relationships with external partners in COPSINS as well as our other local partners.

Full-time
Permanent
£28,000
SE22, London

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Closing date: 5pm on Monday 9 August 2021

Interview date: Tuesday 17 August 2021

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