Senior Mental Health Nurse - Memory Assessment Team

Memory Assessment and Treatment in Central Norfolk.

Working with people who have experienced changes in cognition and memory and may be developing dementia. The team provides a comprehensive memory assessment and treatment service and works with a variety of other services to connect people diagnosed with dementia to the support they need.

You will be based with the Central Locality Memory Assessment Team and assess people with cognitive and memory changes and have a risk of developing dementia. The team provides accurate diagnoses and formulates holistic, person-centred care and treatment. Much of the work you undertake will be in a clinic setting at the Sophie Centre, Julian Hospital, Norwich. You may be required to undertake assessments in a patients own home based on clinical need and you need to be wiling to travel across Central Norfolk which includes North Norfolk, Norwich City and South Norfolk.

Our Team is on a developmental pathway; aiming to become accredited with the Memory Services National Accreditation Programme. We are committed to developing and improving the service. We value research and have received a Trust Excellence Award for our engagement in research.

The post holder will assess people with changes to memory and cognition and work towards a clinical diagnosis and appropriate treatment and care plan. They will have support from an experienced team that includes Consultant Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Senior Nurses and an Occupational Therapist.

NSFT's Community Services for Older People were rated Good in the most recent CQC inspection report and we are proud of our positive and caring approach to the patients and carers we are working with.

As a team we focus on Continuing Professional Development and have a drive for further developing our clinical knowledge and skills. The team have established links with Primary Care and other agencies, which enhance our work and ensure we are able to help and support our patients.

Benefits included with this role are:

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• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

• The post holder will undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multiagency environment.
• Support and advising to other health care professionals. To support aspects of service development.
• Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant students.

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• Registered Mental Health Nurse with the relevant professional registration
• Practice Supervisor / Practice Assessor training (in line with NMC Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment 2018)
• Evidence at social care / health related study

• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Familiar with risk assessment and its management
• Previous community experience

• Be able and willing to undertake further training / development specific to the role
• Able to travel independently
• Ability to transport patients as appropriate.
• Able to liaise with statutory / non-statutory bodies due to patients' needs.

• Able to demonstrate the ability to process, plan and delegate work
• Ability to identify and action change in health care need
• Satisfactory verbal and written English language skills
• Able to time manage and reflect on clinical practice

• Up to date and evidence-based
• knowledge of Person Centred Care
• Working knowledge / application of the Mental Health Act
• Knowledge of mental health needs for older people.
• Knowledge of national policy influencing older persons' health care

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.

The Sophie Centre (Norwich) and Gateway House (Wymondham)

Clinical Nurse Specialist / Clinical Team Manager

£38,682 to £46,580 a yeargross per annum (pro rata)

Fixed term

12 months

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working

246-CEN
7693723

The Sophie Centre (Norwich) and Gateway House (Wymondham)