Dementia Home Treatment Team Practitioner

Do you want to make a difference to the lives of people with dementia in Lincolnshire?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Older Peoples and Frailty Division (OPFD) for band 6 D-HTT practitioner.

The Dementia Home Treatment Team (D-HTT) is a county wide community service providing intensive support to patients in their own homes and in nursing /residential homes. This support enables more people to remain at home or close to home, reducing the need for hospital admission. It supports people with dementia to be supported in a familiar environment, reducing the anxiety and distress that can be associated with transfer to an unfamiliar care environment.

D-HTT provides a rapid health response across seven days to patients whose presentation indicates that they are at risk of immediate deterioration or relapse that could escalate to an in-patient admission; or have been recently discharged from the Specialist Dementia Inpatient Pathway.

We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals at Band 6 level to join our dynamic team, we have a vacancy due to an expansion of the service in Lincoln and Boston.

The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate an understanding of the complexities and challenges that can present for patients with dementia and for their carers.

The posts will include weekend working to enable flexibility in meeting the needs of service users and their carers.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service.

To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.

To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Dementia Home Treatment Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.

To manage service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.

Ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place.

Work with older adults to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people's identified needs and manage their inherent risk.

To assess carers' and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.

Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.

Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live well in their community where possible.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.