Senior Dementia Intensive Support Team Practitioner

7 months ago


Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Dementia Intensive Support Team - Senior DIST Practitioner Band 6 (Mental Health Nurse/OT/Social Worker)

This is an exciting opportunity to join a passionate and motivated, multi-disciplinary team of professionals who support people with dementia and their carers to remain living independently in the community.

The team has a philosophy of early intervention and specialises in working with those who are hard to engage with. We become involved when situations are breaking down including periods of crisis. The team aims to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital and premature moves to long term care. It has an open referral system where anyone can refer in, and works with people for short periods, aiming to stabilise situations and ensure there is support in place to meet their needs in the future.

Working with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team you will:

- Manage and hold a caseload
- Undertake initial assessments including risk assessments
- Engage and work with clients with dementia and their carers
- Liaise with statutory and voluntary Sector to get care and support in place as required
- Triage referrals and undertake duty role
- Attend Clinical and Business Meetings for the team
- Take on a supervisory role within the team
- Represent team in meetings with partner agencies

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us?We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

The Dementia Intensive Support Team is a part of the Suffolk Care Group, working within the community to meet the needs of people with Dementia and their carers. We are a passionate and supportive team with a desire to develop and learn from each other.
- Manage and hold a caseload acting in Care Coordinator role during our involvement which is expected to be short term
- Undertake initial assessments and risk assessments and complete associated paperwork with this on our electronic system (Lorenzo)
- Engage and work intensively with clients with dementia and their carers often in complex situations or when in crisis
- Demonstrate strong communication skills and an ability to empathise and engage with both the individual with dementia and their carers often in difficult circumstances
- Liaise with statutory and voluntary Sector to get care and support in place as required
- Monitor and support packages of care that are implemented to ensure they meet the needs
- Undertake the triage role for the open referral system and act as a duty worker for the team. This involves taking immediate calls and responding to the needs/identifying if there is a role for the team
- Attend Clinical and Business Meetings for the team
- Take on a supervisory role within the team and offer support/guidance/leadership to the wider MDT.
- The post will involve you working autonomously in the community so it is crucial you can travel and have access to a car
- The post may involve transporting service users in your car at times

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY

**Some of the benefits you can expect**:

- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more



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