Specialist Dementia Services Lead

2 months ago


Preston, United Kingdom HC-One - Meadow Bank Full time

**About The Role**:
**Competitive Benefits Package**

**Are you ready to contemplate your next career move in health and social care? Are you someone who would relish the opportunity to lead and develop our innovative and new therapeutic 20 bedded dementia care community for people living with distress and complex needs in Preston? A community where the essential question is not ‘what’ but ‘why’; why is the person acting and feeling this way? A service where a team comes together to think differently and do differently. Would you relish the chance to specialise and develop your practice alongside a senior team of clinicians Including Professor Graham Stokes, a leading thinker and academic authority in Dementia Care in the UK? If so, please get in touch with us as we reshape nursing dementia care in a social care setting.**

HC-One is developing a Specialist Dementia Care Community (SDCC) at Meadow Bank care home. Sabrina House has provided care for people living with dementia for many years but following considerable investment in the layout and design of the living environment, workforce, L&D and assessment documentation we have exciting new opportunities available for those passionate about supporting people who are emotionally distressed by their dementia and require a specialist service to ensure their needs can be met appropriately.

Sabrina House SDCC is a therapeutic care setting that demonstrates that quality of care and quality of life are of equal significance. It provides a bespoke low arousal environment embracing space and calming de-escalation rooms, along with enhanced staffing, specialist roles and training for Colleagues in positive approaches to behaviour, psychosocial therapies and de-escalation interventions. The therapeutic ambition will be that people will be understood as having needs to be met, rather than being defined by their condition, and as a result will have a quality of life previously denied them.

**About The Company**:

- based initiatives and innovation to enable the SDCC to deliver positive outcomes and give people living with dementia their best lives possible.

HC-One would like to attract, recruit, and retain its people, on the basis that their individual values and behaviours align with the values of HC-One
- Kindness - We are kind to everyone we care for, work with or meet at HC-One
- Integrity - We do what we say, keep our promises, and acknowledge any errors
- Essential - We prioritise what is important and then focus on those tasks
- Simplest - We are clear and straightforward in our communication.
- Best Value - We focus on tasks that offer real value and look for the best value in everything we do. It is these values-based behaviours and competencies that will be measured during recruitment and selection and performance development reviews (Ascent)

We are passionate about ensuring that our current and future Colleagues can be their true selves, and that our workforce represents the communities we serve. We prioritise inclusive working practices and invite applicants from all backgrounds into our HC-One family and we are committed to providing the quickest possible turnaround from the point of making you a job offer to you starting with us on day one

**About You**:
In your role as Specialist Dementia Service Lead, you will have a visible leadership presence, offer professional advice and guidance, and inspire as you lead by example. You will be responsible for the supervision and coordination of the multi—disciplinary team.

The Specialist Dementia Service Lead will shape the service, its values and ethos and will have significant experience and understanding of those affected by dementia along with an appreciation and understanding of Positive Behaviour Support providing support to residents and their loved ones.

To meet the requirements of expert practice the Specialist Dementia Service Lead will have an involvement in performance discussions with internal and external clinicians and social care professionals.

The post holder will consult with colleagues both internally and externally about the development and function of skilled practice in dementia and positive behaviour support. They will initiate change, provide effective leadership and support towards the delivery of the highest level of specialist practice within the Home and contribute to the development of specialist dementia care provision within HC-One. The post holder will work to provide better outcomes for people living with dementia by improving the quality of HC-One specialist care and embedding the safeguarding of vulnerable adults and ensuring that all legal requirements relating to Mental Capacity Act (2005), Mental Health Act (1983 - amended 2007) and Liberty Protection Safeguards (2020) are considered and adhered to in relation to all resident care.

**Professional leadership**

You will act as a role model for the following values and behaviours:

- Care - encourages the deli



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