Community Dementia Practitioner – Managing Memory Together

Job overview

This role requires the clinician to  work as an independent, autonomous practitioner as part of Managing Memory Together to support service users with a dementia diagnosis in primary care – ensuring appropriate levels of support, advice and therapeutic interventions are delivered in a coordinated way.

Main duties of the job

Support clinical decision making on diagnosis, treatment and follow up care for patients diagnosed with a dementia that are presented at the ICS co-diagnosis MDT meetings.  For those not diagnosed dementia, sign post on to other services as applicable.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The role will include the responsibility  to joint chair the ICS dementia co diagnosis MDT meetings across allocated PCN’s whilst acting as the lead professional for people with dementia allocated to their own caseload, as well as supporting other lead professionals across other services ensuring proactive support to people with a dementia in an allocated locality. The post holder will work with CDN Team Manager & across the ICS, supporting the development of PCN dementia co-diagnosis MDT meetings,  providing highly specialist clinical advice based on skills and experience to the primary care team on clinical issues relating to the care of a specific patient

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