Memory Service Nurse

Job summary

To have a responsibility for the co-ordination and development of the memory clinics. To have a key role in the on-going assessment, treatment, and support to people with dementia, their carers, and relatives. To collaborate with members of the integrated older peoples' community mental health teams, to provide professional advice and support where required. To promote and develop evidence-based practice working within NICE guidelines and MSNAP Standards.

Main duties of the job

To accept care co-ordinator responsibility for a clinical caseload.

To initiate assessments and treatment programmes in service user's homes and at the memory clinics.

To facilitate the inclusion of social care services in the care plan in line with assessed need, agreed eligibility criteria and agreed procedures.

Respond to the needs of people in an honest, non judgemental, and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups.

Actively engage with service users and their carers in the provision of holistic, needs-led care, which takes account of the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of individuals.

Have an understanding of the needs and rights of carers and undertake Carers Assessments with a view to offering supportive services.

To maintain accurate RIO records, including core and risk assessments, care plans, progress notes and contacts as required.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bridgeways (Bromley Memory Service)

Turpington Lane

Bromley

BR2 8JA

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bridgeways (Bromley Memory Service)

Turpington Lane

Bromley

BR2 8JA

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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