Community Nurse - Band 5

Job summary

Community Mental Health Services

Memory Assessment & Community Dementia Services within Coventry and Warwickshire.

Band 5 Registered Nurse

37.5 hours per week, permanent role

Are you newly qualified or due to qualify this year?

We are seeking to recruit a Band 5 Registered Nurse in our Memory Assessment & Dementia Pathway or our Coventry and Warwickshire locality.

We are looking for a motivated and dynamic individual who has a commitment to the positive development of this service, whose aim is to support people to live well with dementia.

Are you interested in working within our developing Dementia/Memory Services in Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust? Then ask yourself ...

Do you want to contribute to the specialist memory care pathway that offers a high quality assessment and treatment service and is responsive and accessible to those who need it?

Have a commitment to provide a responsive, flexible and evidence based specialist service to those people who are undergoing an assessment of memory problems or those diagnosed with a dementia being sensitive to their complex needs and presentation.

Please note many Trust interviews are currently taking place through Microsoft Teams, this can be downloaded either through the App Store or Google Play for use on your phone/tablet.

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Your role will include

Providing post diagnostic support and post diagnostic interventions for those people who have been assessed and diagnosed with a dementia by the service

For those who meet the criteria for prescription of cognitive enhancers your role will include supporting the patient during the titration process to the therapeutic dose once the medication has been initiated.

To conduct the annual review for patients prescribed cognitive enhancing medication

You may also be involved in being part of the treatment plan proving interventions to clients (and their carers) who have an existing diagnosis of dementia with complex presentations.

To offer cover to our other community Dementia Teams within the Trust within as required

Alongside this you will be part of a team that

Signposts the individual and/or their carer/family members to appropriate resources in the community

• Educates both client and carer
• Offers appropriate post diagnostic support groups
• Provides 1:1 support
• Promotes Positive Risk taking
• Most importantly involves and empowers both the individual and/or their carer to make decisions about their care and treatment now and for the future

About us

You will join a supportive and motivated service that are constantly evolving and will offer you good clinical support and supervision and encourage your profession and personal development.

The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.