Memory Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed Band 6 Memory Nurse to join our Countywide EMDASS Team. We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to join our EMDASS team to deliver service for West Hertfordshire. We are a multi-disciplinary team and our service includes Team Secretaries, Dementia Nurse Specialists, Deputy Community Manager, Service Manager, Psychologists, Psychology Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychiatrists, GP, and Staff members partner agencies. Excellent organisational and communication skills alongside solid clinical experience are essential for this post. The post holder will be expected to undertake a wide range of assessment using appropriate assessment tools and work with multi-disciplinary team to deliver dementia diagnosis and manage their own workload and provide post diagnostic support through titration review for service users. Evidence of working under your own initiate, ability to problem solve, accuracy of work and strong clinical leadership skills to support students and junior staff with creating an effective learning environment and a willingness to be flexible to meet the needs of the service are also essential. The post holder will be supporting the transformation of EMDASS service to change the current pathway and procedure to improve efficiency of service.

The post-holder will undertake memory assessments for service users suspected with dementia, deliver diagnosis working with multi-disciplinary team, treatment and post diagnostic support for service users through titration reviews. The post-holder will be working between One-Stop Pathway and Primary Care.

The post-holder will be carrying out risk assessments and implement risk management plan with service users and carers. The post-holder will be familiar with safeguarding policy and follow safeguarding protocol effectively to ensure safety of service users and carers in the community. The post-holder will be working closely with the partner agencies and make referrals tailored to service users and carers need to community services to support service users living well with illness.

To act as Duty Nurse for completing the screening of referrals, offering advice and signposting.

The post-holder will undertake supervision of junior staff and trainees, as delegated by the MATS Team Leader

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission

Our Family Of Over 4,000 Members Of Staff Provide Health And Social Care For People With Mental Ill Health, Physical Ill Health And Learning Disabilities Across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex And Norfolk, Delivering These Services Within The Community And Several Inpatient Settings. Everything Is Underpinned By Choice, Independence And Equality, With Our Trust Values Embedded Throughout

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Anneka Proothi Job title: Deputy Community Manager Email address: ***email_hidden***

EMDASS South West –

Colne House, 21 Upton Rd, Watford WD18 0JP

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