Dementia Services Nurse Specialist 1116
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £36,000.00 i £39,000.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £36000.00 - £39000.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Tachwedd 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Stoke on Trent, ST3 3NZ |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | B0303-25-0026 |
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Principal Duties & Responsibilities: 1.To provide specialist holistic nursing assessment, evidenced based intervention, practical advice, and emotional support for people with Dementia and their families at all stages including bereavement. 2.Provide clinical advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals. 3.Work with patients, their families and carers in a sensitive manner supporting them in an empowering way that enables them to recognise that it is possible to live well with dementia but also navigate the sense of loss and bereavement associated with the prognosis and behavioural changes associated with the dementia. 4.Provide specialist advice and direct and indirect training for other professionals in dementia interventions. 5.To use a proactive and sensitive approach with patients and relatives to enable involvement in advance care planning. 6.Participate in multi-professional meetings, acting as a patient advocate and represent Dementia Services. 7.Understand and utilise relevant clinical guidelines. 8.Takes professional responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway. 9.Proactively identify patients at risk of delirium and provide advice and support on delirium management. Clinical: 10.To meet the multiple and often complex needs of families affected by dementia through ongoing assessment of health and wellbeing, including risk assessment, developing, implementing and evaluating intervention plans. 11.Promote the rights, interests, needs and choices of carers and people with dementia when advising, planning, supporting and evaluating plan of care. 12.To maintain clinical records using a shared patient electronic database and provide verbal and written feedback appropriately and as required, to carers, people with dementia (as appropriate), referring agencies and professional colleagues. 13.To liaise with GPs, case managers, primary health care practitioners, statutory and voluntary agencies regarding the best possible care for the family affected by dementia. 14.To promote the health and wellbeing of families affected by dementia in line with health and social care policy, guidelines and legislation. 15.To recognise the limits of own competency and professional boundaries and to make appropriate and timely referral in respect of clients needs. 16.To work alongside your team to ensure the continued co-ordination of the content and delivery of the patients care plans and ensure the quality and provision of nursing care of patients and their families. 17.To assess the needs of patients and their carers and identify their respective physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual needs. 18.To work within a team framework, collaborating with colleagues and members of other disciplines across the hospice and externally. 19.To lead in supervision, debriefing and reflective practice sessions. 20.Undertake comprehensive triage activities to ensure that support is delivered in a timely way. 21.Act as role model for excellent advanced communication skills, expertise and on the delivery of evidence based practice in dementia care. 22.To take action in a timely way where there are safeguarding concerns inline with clinical guidelines and procedures. 23.To keep professionally updated with ongoing developments in dementia care through an evidenced based approach by evaluating, updating or participating in training, audit and research. 24.Caseload 25.Being able to prioritise workload as part of responding rapidly to crisis situations. Professional: 26.To follow the hospice and Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) standards on Medicines Management. 27.To maintain professional registration in line with NMC guidance including re-validation. 28.To recognise and manage the potentially distressing effects of working with terminal illness, maintaining personal resilience while accessing the support, guidance, and resources available through the hospice. 29.To work positively with colleagues to maintain clinically effective relationships.