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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us
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JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
YOUR APPLICATION
**Job overview**:
Dementia Intensive Support Team - West Suffolk
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the West Suffolk Dementia Intensive Support Team. You will be joining a motivated and passionate multi-disciplinary team working to achieve positive outcomes for service users and their carers.
The team is community based and works in individuals homes to prevent breakdown of care and support, to promote independence and stabilise situations preventing admissions to hospital and premature moves into long term care. You will be holding a caseload and taking on the care coordinator role.
If you have the same passion to work with this client group, can demonstrate strong communication skills and have experience in liaising and coordinating with multiple professionals then we would love to hear from you.
**Main duties of the job**:
Working with other multi-disciplinary professionals within the team you will:
- Manage and hold a caseload and act as care coordinator for service users you are seeing
- Undertake initial assessments, manage risks, be positive in risk taking
- 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
- Support introduction of care and monitor situations
**Working for our organisation**:
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of specialist mental health services for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, serving a population of 1.6 million.
The Dementia Intensive Support Team is a part of the West Suffolk Care Group, working within the community to meet the needs of people with Dementia and their carers.
**Benefits**
Benefits included with this role are:
- 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
- gym membership
- NHS discounts and many more.
**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
They will be undertaking initial assessments, demonstrating strong communication skills and an ability to engage with clients and their carers often in difficult circumstances.
They will be contributing to multi-disciplinary team meetings and liaising and working with other agencies in the statutory and voluntary sectors to establish packages of care to meet the service users and carers needs moving forwards.
They will be assessing risk on an ongoing basis but be open to positive risk taking with this client group.
**Person specification**:
**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:
- Experience working in the community
**Desirable criteria**:
- Experience of working with people with dementia in the community
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:
- Degree in nursing, social work or OT
- Valid registration with NMC
**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:
- Medicine Management
- Risk Assessment
- Ability to effectively and appropriately manage own time and priorities
**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:
- Appropriate Sections of the Mental Health Act (1983)
- Working knowledge of Care Programme Approach
**Desirable criteria**:
- A clear understanding of mental health presentations.
**Other**:
**Essential criteria**:
- Ability to travel independently
**Desirable criteria**:
- Ability to motivate others
- Enthusiasm for the job
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES_
- Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religio
