Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for a permanent, full-time Community Practitioner to join the West Memory and Later Life Service in North Cumbria.
We would love to hear from you if you are interested in working with older adults offering assessment of their cognitive functioning.
The team is well established with approximately 50 well-motivated employees working hard to assess, diagnose, and treat those referred to our service.
Main Duties of the Job
1. To be responsible for the assessment and management of a caseload of patients who have substantial and complex needs.
2. Provide specialist clinical advice to patients, families, carers, staff, statutory agencies, third sector partner agencies, and the public.
3. You will be expected to provide high-quality assessment and care, alongside offering the wider team support, advice, and supervision.
4. Work collaboratively with patients to develop care plans, recovery, and wellbeing plans, ensuring patients have access to regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt care plans as necessary.
5. Consider carer needs and ensure carer and family involvement in care planning where appropriate.
6. Deliver evidence-based clinical interventions.
7. Work as a member of the Multi-disciplinary Team ensuring high-quality individualised care is delivered, promoting recovery, wellbeing, and maximising independence.
8. Coordinate treatment planning, interventions, clinical reviews, and discharge planning.
9. Provide clinical supervision to staff as delegated by Team Manager and Clinical Leads.
10. Provide compassionate care based on empathy, kindness, respect, and dignity.
11. Incorporate a patient-centred philosophy into nursing practice and patient-centred collaborative care.
About Us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented, and committed workforce who are caring and compassionate, able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return, we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
* Ability to assess the capacity of a service user.
* Monitoring the effects of prescribed medication.
* Proven ability to carry out and provide comprehensive written assessments of individuals with complex mental health needs.
* Risk Assessment and Risk Management / Safety Planning skills.
* Good interpersonal skills.
Experience
* Experience of working with people diagnosed with a mental health condition.
* Experience working with older adults.
* Assessing those struggling with symptoms of mental illness.
* 12 to 24 months band 5 qualified nurse experience dependent upon service need.
* Awareness and understanding of professional accountability, NMC standards, and other local and national initiatives.
* Experience working with the family and carers of people experiencing mental health difficulties.
* Working within a multi-professional team.
Qualifications
* Professional Qualification and current Professional Registration as a First Level Registered Nurse (RNMH, RMN, RNLD) or equivalent as an AHP, Social Worker, or Clinical Psychologist.
* Evidence of post-registration training in clinical/psychological interventions/skills relevant to the post.
* Proven track record of post-registration clinical experience relevant to the post.
* Up-to-date knowledge/experience of relevant legislation.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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