Dementia Activities Coordinator

1 month ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We have an exciting opportunity within the care group to recruit to 1 full time band 3, dementia activities coordinator on a permanent basis

Dementia Specific Role
- Support staff within the clinical areas to correctly flag dementia patients to the dementia team.
- Liaising with Dementia Nurse Specialist for support with complex patients.
- Participate in audits regarding flagging and identification.
- Ensuring all dementia patients receive a dementia information pack.
- Working with relatives and careers to complete the “This is me” document.
- Supporting with audits required for information pack provision
- Participate in NAD/Spotlight audits to ensure improved provision of care.
- Share patient stories and data received, including commencement of a post discharge telephone survey, to be shared with patient experience groups.
- Recording all patient activity and level of approach required for each patient
- Working with the Brain charity to promote and support with services they provide.
- Support and participate dementia Nurse Specialist with maintaining compliance of NICE guidelines throughout the service.

Alongside the dementia specific responsibilities of the role other responsibilities and duties are
- Clinical Responsibilities
- Supports patients with dementia to facilitate personal hygiene and grooming where necessary to support ward staff.
- Assisting those patients with a dementia at meal times, encouraging with feeding and meal time preparation along with documenting fluid and food charts where necessary.
- Enable dementia patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances, according to the patients individual care plan.
- Supporting dementia patients with movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
- Chaperoning and escorting dementia patients to clinical departments within the hospital and to other hospitals for investigations, where extra support is required.
- General and clinical observations of dementia patients where necessary and correctly reporting and documenting, including: - Recording of blood pressure, pulse, temperature and respiration rate
- Oxygen saturation monitoring
- blood glucose monitoring
- Documentation in patients nursing records of any care or activity involvement.
- Initiate Basic Life Support techniques as appropriate and provides assistance to the registered nurse as required in prolonged resuscitation situations.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Job Specification for Dementia Activities Coordinator

Clinical Responsibilities
- Supports patients with dementia to facilitate personal hygiene and grooming where necessary to support ward staff.
- Assisting those patients with a dementia at meal times, encouraging with feeding and meal time preparation along with documenting fluid and food charts where necessary.
- Enable dementia patients to maintain/improve their mobility by use of exercise and mobility appliances, according to the patients individual care plan.
- Supporting dementia patients with movement and handling within the safe practice guidelines from your mandatory training and in relation to the patient’s manual handling plan.
- Chaperoning and escorting dementia patients to clinical departments within the hospital and to other hospitals for investigations, where extra support is required.
- General and clinical observations of dementia patients where necessary and correctly reporting and documenting, including: - Recording of blood pressure, pulse, temperature and respiration rate
- Oxygen saturation monitoring
- blood glucose monitoring
- Documentation in patients nursing records of any care or activity involvement.
- Initiate Basic Life Support techniques as appropriate and provides assistance to the registered nurse as required in prolonged resuscitation situations.
- Contribute to the development of essence of Care and benchmarking
- Ensure due regard is given to customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients and carers.

General Duties
- Will act as an advoc

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