Specialist Dementia Services Lead

2 weeks ago

AshtonunderLyne, United Kingdom HC-One Limited Full time

**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 shape and lead a brand new dedicated 16 bedded ground-breaking new dementia care service for people living with distressand complex needs in the Greater Manchester area? Would you relish the chance to specialise and develop your practice alongside a senior team of clinicians and social care professionals including Professor Graham Stokes; a leading thinker and academic authorityin Dementia Care in the UK? If so, please get in touch with us as we reshape nursing dementia care in a social care setting.**

In partnership with Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, HC-One will be opening a Specialist Dementia Care Community (SDCC) at Kings Park care home in Ashton-under-Lyne.

Kings Park SDCC will be a therapeutic care setting that demonstrates that quality of care and quality of life are of equal significance. It will provide a bespoke living environment embracing space and calming de-escalation rooms, along with enhanced staffingand specialist training for Colleagues in positive approaches to behaviour, psychosocial therapies, de-escalation interventions and safe restrictive practices. The therapeutic ambition will be that people will be understood as having needs to be met, ratherthan being defined by their condition.

In your role as Specialist Dementia Service Lead, you will lead and support the SDCC service by providing a visible leadership presence, professional advice and guidance. You will be responsible for the supervision and coordination of a multi—disciplinarysupport 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 adviceto colleagues, residents, and their loved ones, with four main areas of responsibility which include expert practice, professional leadership; education; and service development, research and evaluation.

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 thedelivery of the highest level of complex 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 improvingthe 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) areconsidered and adhered to in relation to all resident care.

As part of the Home’s senior management team the post holder will also contribute to the delivery of the SDCC OOH On-Call rota. **Professional leadership**

You will act as a role model and lead by example the following values and behaviours:

- Care - encourages the delivery of high-quality evidence-based care
- Compassion - demonstrates empathy, kindness and respect
- Competence - has significant experience in dementia care in a relevant role or setting and maintains professional registration where required
- Communication - displays advanced communication and presentation skills, and is open to feedback
- Courage - manages risks, embraces change, and learns from experience
- Commitment - vision and enthusiastic leadership

**Expert practice**:
You will:

- Deliver expert leadership through direct pre
- and post-admission assessment, person-centred care, consultancy, and supervision.
- Utilise and advise on the use of a range of specialist assessments for effective care planning.
- Be able to communicate complicated and sensitive information to residents, their loved ones and other care professionals and to manage complex issues around consent.
- Provide expert knowledge of care needs of people living with dementia and utilise this in the development of intervention protocols. Provide advice on therapeutic interventions for individuals with complex presentations.
- Promote and protect the human rights of people living with dementia whose needs are complex
- Provide consultancy to professionals as appropriate, to cascade expertise, enable the development of a positive care culture and skill base in order to ensure best practice and service quality.
- Provide expert professional supervision and mentorship to the SDCC team working with complex resident presentations.
- Utilise and promote highly specialised dementia strategies, techniques, interventions that are evidence-based.
- Work within up to date standards, guidance and strategies and where applicable, maintains own professional registration or requirements.

**Research and education**

You will have:

- Significant experience in dementia care, with proven experience at a leadership level.
- Ability to think differently about how we provide dementia care and a value set which aligns to our service specification and ethos.

Ideally, you will also:

- Have significant experience in dementia care in a relevant role or setting including, social care professional, registered nurse (RMN/RGN/RNLD), occupational therapist or clinical psychologist

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