Deputy Dementia Services Lead

About The Role

Are you ready to contemplate your next career move in health and social care? Do you hold a Valid NMC Pin? Are you someone who would relish the opportunity to help lead an innovative and new dedicated 20 bedded dementia care service for people living with distress and complex needs in Scotland? Would you relish the chance to work alongside a senior team of clinicians including Professor Graham Stokes, a leading thinker and academic authority in Dementia Care in the UK?

If so, please get in touch with us as we continue to reshape nursing dementia care in a social care setting.

HC-One is developing a Specialist Dementia Care Community (SDCC) at Darnley Court care home. Darnley Court has provided care for people living with dementia for many years but following considerable investment in environmental layout and design, workforce and L&D in Carmichael community, we have exciting new opportunities available for those passionate about supporting people who are emotionally distressed by their dementia and require a specialist service to ensure their needs can be met appropriately.

As an SDCC, Carmichael will become a therapeutic care setting that demonstrates that quality of care and quality of life are of equal significance. It will provide a bespoke living environment embracing space and calming de‑scalation rooms, along with enhanced staffing and specialist training for Colleagues in positive approaches to behaviour, psychosocial therapies, de‑scalation interventions and safe restrictive practices. The therapeutic ambition will be that people will be understood as having needs to be met, rather than being defined by their condition.

HC-One Scotland would like to attract, recruit, and retain its people, on the basis that their individual values and behaviours align with the values of HC-One Scotland.

Everyone who works here understands that our Residents are people just like them with their own stories to tell. By joining HC-One Scotland you’ll have a wonderful opportunity to give something back to those people.

We are passionate about ensuring that our current and future Colleagues can be their true selves, and that our workforce represents the communities we serve. We prioritise inclusive working practices and invite applicants from all backgrounds into our HC-One Scotland family and we are committed to providing the quickest possible turnaround from the point of making you a job offer to you starting with us on day one.

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In your role as Deputy Dementia Services Lead, you will provide specialist dementia nursing expertise support to people with dementia, with a specific focus on distress and complex behaviours. This will include deputising for the Specialist Dementia Services Lead when/if they are absent from the Service.

The position is deputy to the Specialist Dementia Services Lead, who will lead the SDCC, and hence this is a development role opportunity. HC-One Scotland will be supportive of post graduate education in dementia care, aspiring leader training programme etc.

The Deputy Dementia Services Lead will support, deliver, and coordinate person‑centred dementia care and therapeutic interventions in a residential setting to improve clinical outcomes for those living with dementia whose needs cause them to be distressed and their behaviours to negatively impact the lives of others.

In line with NMC code of conduct and HC-One policies and procedures the post holder will provide:

• Specialist behavioural assessment, functional analysis support and therapeutic interventions for people living with dementia and…