Dementia Nurse Specialist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £50,008.00 i £56,908.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £50008.00 - £56908.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 09 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1LD |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9367-25-0718 |
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Deliver high-quality, nurse-led memory assessment clinics , ensuring accessible and timely care for patients presenting with memory concerns. Offer expert-level memory assessments and diagnostic services in both clinic and community settings, tailored to the individual needs of patients referred with suspected dementia. Initiate and titrate dementia medications in line with your Non-Medical Prescribing registration and scope of practice. You will discuss pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment options, address potential side effects, and ensure informed consent and capacity are appropriately considered. Assess and manage clinical risk within primary care settings, escalating to secondary services when necessary. You will ensure that care is delivered in accordance with Trust clinical governance standards, with accurate documentation of all interventions. Take a proactive role in shaping and enhancing the specialist memory assessment service. This includes collaboration acrossMental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP), local services, primary care, and third-sector organisations to ensure integrated and person-centred care. Provide advanced nursing advice and consultation to multidisciplinary teams and primary care professionals, contributing to the development of evidence-based treatment plans and care pathways. Uphold the standards of theMemory Services National Accreditation Programme (MSNAP), ensuring that dementia assessment, diagnosis, and care are delivered to a consistently high standard. This includes promoting timely and equitable access to services, evidence-based interventions, and robust follow-up procedures. Participate in research activities relevant to your scope of practice, contributing to service innovation and continuous improvement. Work sensitively and inclusively with individuals, families, and communities from diverse racial, cultural, religious, and social backgrounds. You will be mindful of how factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, and social difference may influence care needs, and develop innovative approaches to meet those needs. Demonstrate competence and confidence in safeguarding practices for both adults and children, adhering to inter-agency protocols and policies to ensure the safety and wellbeing of service users.