Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health Nurse-Dementia.
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-NMR309-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Glanrhyd Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £35,922 - £43,257 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse Integrated Network - Complex Dementia.
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
To work as part of a team of integrated professionals focussing on the needs of adults living with dementia and attending day services or supporting inclusion community opportunities.
To work with care providers and family members, supporting adults living with dementia, in the development of care plans that support appropriate care.
To enhance carer resilience and education. To ensure adults living with dementia live their lives in the way they wish too ensuring voice and choice for individual. To aim to avoid unnecessary hospital or care home admission.
Main duties of the job
To upskill the existing day service provision for people with dementia, so that they become specialised to deliver services for those people with complex needs as a result of living with dementia or cognitive impairment who would not be able to access universal resources within their communities.
•To provide support for people and their carers by developing pre-emptive health and social care assessment and interventions to maximise people’s health and well-being in a supportive setting, as well as anticipatory/contingency planning approaches with carers to support them in their caring roles
•Those living with advanced dementia and their carers and families are able to receive person-centred coordinated care and support which is flexible and responsive to individual need
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
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Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi-agency working.
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Essential criteria
- Possess a range of clinical experience and specialist knowledge within the relevant area of practice e.g. adult mental health, older persons care, and rehabilitation/recovery. Experience of multiagency and multi-disciplinary working
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and of Health and Social Care legislation in Wales.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jason Howells
- Job title
- ICNM-Bridgend
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07709868774
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