Primary Care Dementia Practitioner - Liskeard, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Liskeard, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Primary Care Dementia Practitioner:

Band 5:

Main area

Dementia and Older People's Mental Health

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Grade

Band 5

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Full time
Part time

37.5 hours per week
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Job ref
B
Site

Trevillis House

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Town

Liskeard

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Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 Per Annum / Pro Rata
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Salary period

Yearly

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Closing

Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

_ Strategic Themes_

_ Great Care_
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

_Great Organisation_
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

_Great People_
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

_Great Partner_
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._

Job overview:

The Primary Care Dementia Practitioner (PCDP) service puts people with dementia and their carers at the centre of what we do.

Do you like working with older people with dementia? Do you want to support carers? Do you want to make a difference?

We want you to join our highly skilled and supportive team. We are the team that builds relationships, problem solves, listens, assesses multiple care needs, and directs plans of care. We work closely with GPs, primary care and all other health and social care providers. We have good working relationships with our third sector colleagues.

We have great opportunities to network but we also influence the care for people with dementia. If you are innovative this is the role for you.

We have a unique job description in the NHS, we can build therapeutic relationships throughout the persons journey with dementia, it is often described as a privilege

Our service is developing and expanding, we have continuously evaluated what we do and listened to our patients and stakeholders to make sure we have the right service to meet the needs of people with dementia in Cornwall.

If you have a Nursing, Social work, Occupational therapy, Paramedic, Speech Language qualification, we would like to hear from you, become a PCDP.

Main duties of the job:

To provide specialist support to individuals living with dementia and/or mental ill health (frequently associated with some form of dementia), carers and families and others who are significant to the individual and to work in partnership with general medical colleagues, ensuring physical and mental health needs of people with dementia are considered holistically.

To work with Complex Care and Dementia and memory assessment service teams to provide a comprehensive service across the pathway for people diagnosed with dementia, whilst providing signposting, advice, education and support to both the person living with dementia and their families/
significant other.

To identify individuals with dementia, living in the community, who are not currently recorded on the GP dementia registers and to improve GP's awareness and detection of dementia.

Working for our organisation:

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter