Dementia Wellbeing East London needs volunteers to offer Practical, social and emotional support to people living in their homes in Newham, City & Hackney and Tower Hamlets affected by advanced dementia.
What You'll Do:
- Some of the types of activities you could offer to our patients include: Creating a memory box, Listening to their favourite songs & pleasantly stimulating sounds. Using favourite and seasonal fragrances.
- You could be offering a relaxing hand massage or support a patient with brushing their hair. Also helping to maintain hydration. You could also offer relaxing hand massages. Hair -brushing and face -washing and maintaining of hydration.
- Benefits to the role will include full training on all areas of Dementia support such as providing hand massage to patients.
Why You'll Love It:
- Opportunity to make a difference to the lives of both the individual and their family
- Opportunity to learn new skills / develop existing skills
- Free training
- On-going support Reimbursement of travel expenses
- Provision of a reference (after minimum 6 months of active volunteering)
What You'll Learn:
Learning about supporting dementia Patients
Hand Massage
Providing activities such as playing music to patients.
What We're Looking For:
We would love to hear from you if you have:
- A couple of hours per week available
- An interest in supporting people in your community who are living with dementia
- The time to commit to a minimum of six months active volunteering with Dementia Wellbeing East London
- Clear and sensitive communication skills
- The ability to work independently
- Patience, empathy and a non-judgemental approach
- Reliability, dependability and enthusiasm
- The ability to speak another language (Please note, desirable but not essential)
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