Senior Community Dementia Nurse/Practitioner

Job overview

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 22.5 hours per week.

To Work as part of Managing Memory Together to support service users with dementia in primary care – ensuring appropriate levels of support, advice and therapeutic interventions are delivered in a coordinated manner for people with dementia in the allocated area

Main duties of the job

To work to a defined cluster of GP Practices whilst remaining flexible to work across other GP Practice clusters as required.

To act as the lead professional for people with dementia allocated to your own caseload and support other lead professionals within other services.

To work collaboratively with other services to advise and ensure proactive support to people with dementia in the required area.

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Manage an allocated caseload of people with dementia living at home, whose level of support require care co-ordination and are not more appropriately served by another specialist service.

Develop, monitor and review support plans proactively to meet service user needs in partnership with the service user, carer, and primary care team. Develop, monitor and review contingency and advanced care plans

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Government’s UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas