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Memory Clinic Nurse - Buckinghamshire, High Wycombe
Client: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location: High Wycombe, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: df41eb8b6c28
Job Views: 6
Posted: 09.02.2025
Expiry Date: 26.03.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
Are you a passionate qualified and Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) looking to develop your career within Memory Assessment? Are you looking to work within the Older Adults Community Mental Health team based in High Wycombe and Aylesbury?
As an enthusiastic Mental Health Nurse, you will have specialist knowledge relating to the care of older adults with mental health conditions and co-existing physical health concerns.
Why join us? We provide excellent care and service through evidence-based interventions, research and quality improvement work. We work closely with families and carers as well as other services including social services who may be involved in supporting our patients/clients who have complex needs. The team enjoy having a range of students learning and working with them and have gained consistent positive feedback.
This role carries an incentive premium of £3,500 which will be paid in instalments over an 18-month period, this is subject to terms and conditions.
Main duties of the job
* Conduct individual assessments for people with memory concerns and provide pre and post-diagnostic support.
* Assist individuals with a new diagnosis of dementia and their carers to live well with the condition.
* Develop and manage nurse-led clinics for initial assessments and follow-ups, ensuring up-to-date clinical practice.
* Supervise junior staff and students, and maintain effective communication with team members, primary care teams, and other agencies.
* Manage a patient caseload, ensuring all interventions are underpinned by the principles of recovery within dementia care, and participate in the planning, evaluation, and audit of practice.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.
The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role.
Person specification
Education
* Professional qualification as RMN or OT
* Post grad training in research or Non Medical prescriber
Knowledge
* To have experience of working with Older adults in a mental health setting
* To have experience of working in a memory clinic
Personal Qualities
* Able to use own initiative when appropriate
* Able to challenge and be challenged.
* Able to rapport build
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
* Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.
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