Community Psychiatric Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the young people with dementia team. The role involves working closely with service users and families completing cognitive assessments, requesting scans, diagnosing and holding a case load. Further involves supporting service users and their families following a diagnosis of young onset dementia. This is a community post and covers Northamptonshire which can involve a lot of driving to different areas. Car driver essential /with access to own transport.

Working for the young people with dementia team- which is a countywide service with people under the age of 65- covering Northamptonshire. This post involves initial assessments holding a case load working autonomously and working closely with the MDT ., The post will involve close MDT working and working autonomously around the community.

Excellent communication skills are required and a good knowledge base of dementia and generic mental health conditions.

Good assessment skills will be required , must be able to write comprehensive reports . Good interagency collaborative skills and the ability to focus on empowering service users to live well with dementia.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.