Senior Dementia Practitioner

About the Role

There are two Senior Dementia Practitioner roles available, 1x 0.6 wte and 1x 0.8 wte. Both roles are based within the post diagnostic team and will work from Brookland Hall. These city‑wide roles will focus on delivering high quality, individualised support to service users and carers, encompassing a wide range of 1:1 and group interventions. The post holders will work collaboratively with the Psychology team to deliver bespoke interventions for complex service users and carers.

• Work alongside a Clinical Support Manager to support the development and implementation of the services Preventing Well agenda, engaging with stakeholders and others in defining and delivering this pathway.
• Engage in initiatives to promote good brain health, maintain function and independence, and reduce risks for developing dementia.
• Set up and run groups, perform goal setting, and implement outcome measures.
• Apply cognitive rehabilitation to promote independence and adaptation to life changes.
• Provide clinical supervision of support staff, demonstrating leadership to support own and team development.
• Contribute to the services access‑point rota, answering and responding to clinical calls on a regular basis.

• Experience setting up and running groups.
• Goal‑setting skills and knowledge of the implementation of outcome measures.
• Desirable experience using cognitive rehabilitation.
• Experience providing clinical supervision of support staff.

We recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate behaviours underpinning our Trust’s core values: a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. These values are lived in everyday tasks such as giving a smile, making time for people, challenging ourselves and others, and being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all community sections, regardless of protected characteristics. Part‑time and flexible working are considered and supported where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region and nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing and strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high‑quality services that are safe & focused on people’s recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.