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Band 6 Dementia Nurse - Green Lane Hospital, Devizes
| Posting date: | 02 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | £37,338.00 to £44,962.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338.00 - £44962.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 December 2024 |
| Location: | Devizes, SN10 5DS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9342-24-1437 |
Summary
To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users living with dementia, living in the community and in a range of settings. This will include: The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation. Support Tool (CAST), KGV. Recovery Star.History, strengths and aspirations.Mental state.Impact of culture and diversity.Functional needs.The needs of family and carer.Evaluation of risk.Physical health.Complicating factors. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.Social care needs.Safeguarding and public protection.Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act. Cognitive assessments To be responsible for developing, delivering and reviewing comprehensive and complex treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidencebased practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required. To act as care coordinator for service users with the most complex needs, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads. To plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process , in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads. This might include: a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention.b. Psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches , family interventions.c. Psychosocial interventions.d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.e. Medication management.f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act. To deliver a range of defined activities/interventions to improve the carers ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of complex comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.