Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join a newly developing Community Dementia Service as a Dementia Specialist Practitioner within the Complex Dementia Team.
The Service is currently being established in the Lincoln & Gainsborough area, with plans to expand into a countywide service in the coming years.The role will involve the assessment, treatment and monitoring of patients with complex dementia presentations to provide support, education and evidence-based interventions to manage complex presentations.
As a Specialist Practitioner, the role will also include the clinical supervision and leadership of members of the clinical team, as well as liaising with stakeholders: primary care colleagues, care home teams, and third-sector agencies.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for providing high quality, evidence-based care and treatment to residents of Lincolnshire who are experiencing memory problems.
The post holder will lead patients and their families / carers through the care journey, including completing initial assessments and cognitive testing, dispersing a diagnosis, initiating treatment and monitoring the individual's needs, as well as providing professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details of main responsibilities.
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.
To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of clinical members of the team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage caseload and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
Develop and regularly review care plan and risk assessments
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
Work with individuals who are referred to service with concerns about their memory, and their family / carers, to assess, disperse diagnosis and initiate / monitor treatment, working in line with the divisions agreed pathways.
Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Enable individuals to develop skills to live well in the community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details of main responsibilities.
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.
To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of clinical members of the team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage caseload and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
Develop and regularly review care plan and risk assessments
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
Work with individuals who are referred to service with concerns about their memory, and their family / carers, to assess, disperse diagnosis and initiate / monitor treatment, working in line with the divisions agreed pathways.
Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Enable individuals to develop skills to live well in the community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent AHP qualification
- Currently Registered Nurse/AHP
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with older people with mental health needs and memory problems
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Community Mental Health experience
- Experience of managing a caseload
- Current experience in working with people with dementia
- Previous experience at band 6.
- NMP
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Goverance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
- Ability to work independently and collectively.
- Ability to travel independently across the county without the use of public transport
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent AHP qualification
- Currently Registered Nurse/AHP
- Mentorship Module (degree level)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with older people with mental health needs and memory problems
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Community Mental Health experience
- Experience of managing a caseload
- Current experience in working with people with dementia
- Previous experience at band 6.
- NMP
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Goverance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
- Ability to work independently and collectively.
- Ability to travel independently across the county without the use of public transport
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
