Job summary Are you Dynamic?
Motivated?
Passionate about community based care?
A registered Mental Health Nurse?If you can answer yes to these questions, then we want you to apply for our band 6 post in the Dementia Service.
We are redesigning the model of care based on identified pathways and looking for clinicians who are skilled or have an interest in training to deliver interventions to service users living with Dementia.
Main duties of the job This is an exciting opportunity for clinicians to work in a focused way developing skills for an identified group of individuals living with Dementia and improving the outcomes and experience for our service users and their carers.
The successful applicant will be responsible for clinical assessments of service users referred into the service through a 'duty system'.
Assessments may be conducted initially over the telephone to gather the required information to formulate a plan of care.
Dependent on need, there may be a requirement for face to face assessment.
The role is primarily focused on establishing an effective 'duty system' but may require care-coordination of service users open to the caseload, dependent on the needs of the service.The role will involve providing therapeutic interventions and also linking in with other professionals to co-ordinate their interventions, this will all be done within the CPA process.Main responsibilities:Initial assessment with service users living with dementia who are presenting with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
Due to the nature of the client group, initial assessment is likely to include working with family and carers.Multi-agency working.Risk management working.Care coordination dependent on service need About us We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust):a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.We provide services from a range of locations to approximately million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing.
The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees.
We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community.
We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job description Job responsibilities To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users living with dementia, living in the community and in a range of settings.
This will include: The use of standardised assessment tools, the Cluster Allocation.
Support Tool (CAST), KGV.
Recovery Star.History, strengths and of culture and diversity.Functional needs of family and carer.Evaluation of risk.Physical health.Complicating factors.
The interventions and treatments required to enable positive care needs.Safeguarding and public protection.Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.
Cognitive assessments To be responsible for developing, delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.
To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.
To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process , in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads.
This might include: a.
Individual or group therapeutic Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family Psychosocial Motivational and coping enhancement Medication Interventions under the Mental Health Act.
To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.
To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.
In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.
Person Specification Qualification/Registration Essential Current relevant registration with the NMC Diploma level/Degree in relevant health profession.
Experience Essential Experience of post grad working with people living with dementia Demonstrates substantial experience of assessing risk and developing risk management strategies Mobile Essential Mobile with the facility to move quickly across a geographically dispersed area with limited access to public transport.