Job summary
- Main area
- Memory Nurse Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-CMT-6412490
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Marrow House
- Town
- Stoke on Trent
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Memory Nurse Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join an award winning and MSNAP accredited service as a full time Band 6 Memory Nurse Practitioner. Experience of working with older persons and a knowledge of dementia is essential.
You will be expected to work autonomously and be responsible for assessment, possible diagnosis delivery, reviews and signposting to other services and support networks in line with the memory clinic diagnostic pathway. We are small, well established, welcoming team offering regular supervision and support to develop skills.
The memory service operates from two sites; Bradwell and The Eaves at Marrow House with the expectation you will be scheduled to work across both bases and in the community.
Main duties of the job
To act as named practitioner/care co-ordinator for a specific group of patients and provide care under the supervision of the Memory Services Team Lead. To deliver Assessment and diagnosis delivery both within a clinic setting and the community to this group of patients and liaise with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes.
To ensure that practice remains abreast of new developments and to develop and maintain standards and implement change in respect of this.
To liaise with other professionals and agencies both statutory and non-statutory and to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To act as practitioner/care co-ordinator with responsibility for the assessment, planning and delivery of care to the identified patient group.
To act as a Change Agent and actively seek to develop practice
To develop relationships and strengthen links and liaise between the different To act as practitioner nurse/care co-ordinator for an identified group of patients within the overall community team caseload. To ensure that appropriate interventions are planned and delivered according to assessed need. To promote a positive nurse patient relationship and to engage with carers/relatives as appropriate. To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards of record-keeping are adhered to. To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record-keeping for this group of patients.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A qualified/registered Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- Experience in Old Age Psychiatry community/memory clinics
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working therapeutically in community settings in Old Age Psychiatry
- Experience post registration
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment
- Understanding of psychosocial interventions
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Karen Wareham
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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