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Job overview
In collaboration with Dementia UK, Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit an exceptional Band 6 registered nurse with a passion for, and experience of, providing relationship-centred dementia care to join our Admiral Nurse Service on a full-time basis of 37.5 hours. The work base will be predominantly Halton; however, there is an expectation of cross-cover with the Knowsley team if needed.
Admiral Nurses are specialist dementia nurses who offer expert practical, clinical, and emotional support to families involved in the care of a person living with dementia with complex needs.
Main duties of the job
1. Deliver specialist one-to-one support, guidance, and practical solutions for families, alongside supporting best practice and providing role modelling within Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust.
2. Provide specialist nursing assessment, using the Admiral Nurse Assessment Framework or appropriate tools, for families affected by dementia, including positive risk taking, managing distressed behaviours, and risk minimisation strategies.
3. Provide a range of bio-psychosocial interventions to promote health and wellbeing for people affected by dementia and their families.
4. Act as an advocate for people with dementia and their families to promote their rights and best interests.
5. Support and advise on carer assessments and reviews.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Work collaboratively with other professionals to improve the identification and management of co-morbidities and frailty for people with dementia and their families.
2. Develop and support care plans for people with dementia and families, including positive risk management.
3. Support people with dementia, families, and staff to understand and respond to changes in behaviour and relationships as a result of dementia.
4. Ensure the safeguarding of vulnerable adults and that all legal requirements relating to the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007), and Liberty Protection Safeguards (2020) are considered and adhered to in relation to patient care.
5. Work collaboratively with health, social, and voluntary sector services to achieve coordinated care.
6. Work in partnership with colleagues to promote the use of advance care planning for people with dementia and to support and inform families around advance care planning, best interest decisions, and end-of-life care.
7. Refer to secondary care if there is deterioration in condition/a review of medication including antipsychotics is required or any other concerns regarding a person's health that cannot be managed in primary care, in line with their dementia expertise.
The successful applicant will be an NMC registered nurse, with significant post-registration clinical experience of working with people with dementia and supporting their carers/supporters, along with formal knowledge of dementia acquired through clinical post-graduate training/education.
You will receive ongoing support from Dementia UK to maintain and strengthen your clinical expertise as a specialist nurse within dementia care. You will also become part of the wider network of Admiral Nurses and will have the opportunity to access relevant post-graduate courses and develop professionally, as informed by the Admiral Nurse Competency Framework.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Teaching/mentorship qualification or equivalent work-based experience
* Experience working in community settings/LLAMS
* Experience working with older persons' mental health
Knowledge
* Demonstrable post-registration/qualification experience in the identified specialised field of nursing
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers, and colleagues
Values
* Accountability
* High Professional Standards
* Responsive to Service users
* Engaging Leadership style
* Transparency and Honesty
Skills
* Ability to travel to work across boundaries
* Self-management and motivation skills
* Excellent communication, organisational, and interpersonal skills including time management
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process, please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
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