Locality Community Hca in Dementia

**Locality Community HCA in Dementia & Older People's MH Service**:
**Band 3**:
**Main area**
- Dementia and Older people's Mental Health Services.
- **Grade**
- Band 3
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-290**Site**
- Bassett Unit Longreach House
- **Town**
- Redruth / Penzance
- **Salary**
- £21,730 - £23,177 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of service users.

The post holder will provide a range of services including practical and emotional support to individual service users as indicated by the individual care plans provided by their care co-ordinators.

The post is a Locality Community Health Care Assistant who will work across the 2 Dementia in Older People's Mental Health (DOPMH) teams in the West Locality area of Cornwall covering Redruth, Helston, Lizard, Hayle, St Ives, Penzance and the surrounding areas. The post holder will hold a full drivers licence and have access to their own car.

**Main duties of the job**:
The post holder will work in partnership with medical and nursing colleagues, ensuring physical and mental health needs of people with dementia and functional mental health needs are considered holistically. You will assist qualified staff in the assessment of care, needs and the development of programmes of care, delivering aspects of care without direct supervision.

To recognise and report with accuracy to qualified staff any change in the patient’s condition or circumstances appropriate to the degree of urgency.

To provide signposting, advice, education, support to people with their mental health needs and their families

Making sure the right information and support is given at the right time to help people with mental health needs to remain in their communities for as long as possible. To help people to seek help early and understand the services that are available.

Support local communities in developing dementia friendly communities and build strong and effective working relationships with key staff in a cluster of, GP practices, mental health and primary care community teams.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live a