Dementia Specialist Practitioner
| Posting date: | 19 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 March 2026 |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN6 8UZ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9274-26-0119 |
Summary
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details of main responsibilities. 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 clinical members of the team is of the highest standard of clinical care. To manage caseload and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements. Develop and regularly review care plan and risk assessments Work with individuals 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. Work with individuals who are referred to service with concerns about their memory, and their family / carers, to assess, disperse diagnosis and initiate / monitor treatment, working in line with the divisions agreed pathways. Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples 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 skills to live well in the community.