Primary Care Dementia Practitioner

**Primary Care Dementia Practitioner**:**Band 5**:
**Main area**

Dementia and Older People's mental Health.
**Grade**

Band 5
**Contract**

Permanent
**Hours**

Part time - 30 hours per week

**Job ref**

201-22-177-A

**Site**

Banham House
**Town**

Bodmin
**Salary**

£25,655 - £31,534 Pro rata
**Salary period**

Yearly
**Closing**

Today at 23:59

**Thank you for your interest in working for **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust**:
**Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust prides itself in striving to be an employer of choice.**
- Our Trust objectives are:_
- Improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequalities by working in partnership and creating opportunities for our citizens.
- Provide safe, high quality, timely and compassionate care and support, in local communities wherever possible, and informed by experience of people who use services.
- Make Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly a great place to work in health and social care.
- Working efficiently so health and care funding give maximum benefits.
- Create the underpinning infrastructure and capabilities that are critical to delivering high quality care and support.

All external appointments to the Trust will be required to attend a full Trust Corporate Induction which will be held at Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin, PL31 2QN.

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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the County Wide Primary care Dementia Practitioner service in Cornwall.

This innovative service continues to move forward whilst working with GP’s to meet the needs of the people with a suspected dementia, and a diagnosis of dementia. Based in primary care but with close links to the complex care and dementia community teams you will deliver support and interventions. You will be a key link in the journey for people with dementia and their carers and also offer support to facilitate early diagnosis and detection. You will need to have a passion and motivation for working with people with dementia and be an effective communicator as the role involves liaising with a variety of agencies. This is an exciting opportunity for people with enthusiasm and the necessary skills to be at the forefront of a developing and expanding and pioneering service.

We are seeking highly motivated individuals from a variety of backgrounds including nursing, occupation therapy, psychology and social work and who hold a professional qualification to reflect this. The post holder must be committed to improving quality of life for people with dementia, and their family/carers, as well as leading on developing person-centred care, providing independent expert advice, information and support. Primary care based dementia practitioners will meet the needs of people with dementia and their carers living in the community across Cornwall. This role will raise awareness and understanding of how the disease process affects the individual with the practitioner, engaging with all services and resources available to ensure that those living with dementia are supported to promote and live a better quality of life.

This is a part time, substantive post working 30hrs per week.
- To achieve our Trust objectives, we prioritise the development of our staff. To support this, the following opportunities are available:_
- Protected CPD time for registered staff
- Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
- Leadership and Management development programmes
- Coaching and mentoring opportunities
- A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
- Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
- A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
- Individual professional development programmes
- Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits for our staff. These include:_
- Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
- Free DBS checks where required
- Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme

We are committed to diversity and equality of employment including the employment of current and former service users.

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The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users.