Career Opportunities
Current Job Postings
Social Worker (Oxford)
Status: Full-time, permanent, 35 hours per week, occasional evening and weekend work required.
Location: Oxford Site – 575 Peel St. Woodstock and some remote work from home
Closing date: When filled
Under the direction of the Manager of Clinical Services, the incumbent will work with persons living with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia, including Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), or other memory complaints. The Registered Social Worker will work with the individual, their care partners and community resource agencies to ensure access to information, support, and education that assists them on their journey with the disease. The goal is to provide needed support, build effective and efficient utilization of community resources, promote links with primary care and community resource agencies; reduce care partner crisis situations and thereby reduce care partner burden.
Dementia Resource Consultant / Social Worker (Oxford)
Status: Full-time, 10-month contract, 35 hours per week, occasional evening and weekend work required.
Location: Alzheimer Society Southwest Partners: Oxford Site – 575 Peel St. Woodstock (With some travel required within Middlesex, Oxford and Elgin counties). Woodstock Hospital (WH): 310 Juliana Drive, Woodstock
Closing date: When filled
Under the direction of the Manager of Community Clinical Services, the incumbent will be a Registered Social Worker who will work with persons living with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia (ADOD), including Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), or other memory complaints who are presenting with responsive behaviours in the community of London-Middlesex.
The successful candidate will also serve as the initial point of contact for Woodstock Hospital (WH) Emergency Department (ED) and Home and Community Care Support Services staff and people living with dementia and their care partners who enter WH ED. These individuals may become clients of Alzheimer Society Southwest Partners (AlzSWP), including persons living with dementia and/or care partners.
Therapeutic Recreation Facilitator
Status: Full-time, Permanent, 35 hours per week
Location:AlzSWP Middlesex (London) site, occasional travel required within Oxford and Elgin counties
Closing date: When filled
Reporting directly to the Manager of Therapeutic Recreation, the Therapeutic Recreation Facilitator will help to facilitate group-based recreation programs for clients living with dementia.
The successful candidate will have a Therapeutic Recreation Degree and/or Recreation and Leisure Diploma with a minimum of two years of experience facilitating recreation group programs, comprised of diverse individuals with complex needs. Experience working with older adults, those living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is preferred.
Board Opportunities
The AlzSWP is an equal opportunity governance Board committed to building a culture focused on health equity, inclusion, and diversity. We are seeking individuals who can offer direct or indirect diversity of lived experience (e.g., class, race, or gender inequality) and a passion for community support services working as a non-for-profit organization. We want members to speak from their own lived experience to collectively provide varied perspective to the Board and committee discussions.
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteering is a great way to give back and help those living with dementia and their care partners.
