Band 6 Dementia Nurse - Green Lane Hospital, Devizes

Are you Dynamic? Motivated? Passionate about community based care? A registered Mental Health Nurse?, 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

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 1.8 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.