Registered Nurse (Memory Assessment Services)
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area: Older People's Mental Health (Memory Assessment)
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week (To be discussed)
Job ref: 338-6934454-25
Site: Alfred Bean Hospital
Town: Driffield
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/02/2025 23:59
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
The Hull & East Riding Memory Assessment Service is a forward-thinking MSNAP accredited service offering cognitive assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
The team is made up of Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinical Psychology, OT, Nursing, and Health Care Assistants who deliver the comprehensive diagnostic and treatment pathway.
The team prides itself on its collaboration with local Alzheimer's Society and Carer's Agencies, along with frailty services and Innovations in Dementia to ensure that all living with dementia receive holistic onward interventions, providing hope and enabling those receiving a diagnosis to live well with Dementia.
The role will involve delivering services throughout the diagnostic pathway, from triage to transfer to other services. The post holder must be able to demonstrate empathy and sensitivity to those using the service and their supporters throughout the pathway.
If you are passionate about the provision of quality assessment and treatment for those living with cognitive issues, we welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide interventions throughout the diagnostic pathway from triage to onward transfer. Working within the Multi Disciplinary Team, the role is pivotal to ensuring people receive quality assessment and, where appropriate, treatment for Dementia.
The team continually strives to improve service delivery; the post holder will have the opportunity to share ideas for quality improvement and also be involved in current projects.
There is the opportunity for personal development. Full induction to the role will be given.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East, and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website.
We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas, demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work, we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts, including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors, you’ll find a place to call home, including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Experience
* Appropriate knowledge/experience of working in Mental Health Nursing.
* Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Part III or 13 of NMC live register.
* An understanding of relevant clinical practice/standards within identified clinical area.
* Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
Skills and Competencies
* Able to demonstrate effective interpersonal/communication skills.
* Evidence of good time management skills.
* Ability to commute between the various sites.
* Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures.
* Ability to manage daily operations and maintain a safe working environment.
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6-month probationary period where applicable; further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible, the Trust supports agile working; there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post, the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check, and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important, therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
If you require sponsorship to work in the UK, check you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system online. Not all jobs we advertise are eligible for sponsorship.
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.
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