Job summary
The Memory Assessment Service we are currently seeking highly skilled, motivated, passionate practitioners with a desire to provide high quality, timely care.

You may already be a B6 or looking for your next step. We are keen to hear from you with the desire to work with individuals referred into the memory assessment service.

We believe our staff are our most valuable asset; and excellent, well trained and motivated staff will help us deliver this transformation, creating a culture of compassion, collaboration and continuous improvement. We have our own unique, internal Academy of Excellence supporting registered staff to gain support throughout their careers to realise their aspirations as well as links to local universities to support further education and development. We are one of only a few NHS Trusts in the country to offer fully funded leadership and management qualifications to staff.

Main duties of the job

• To provide thorough memory assessments for those referred into the service
• To gather a detailed collaborative history of presenting problem from the patient and their carer
• To gather relevant past medical history from system partners
• To be able to undertake physical health observations and awareness of escalation routes
• To formulate plan of treatment in collaboration with senior colleague in MDT.
• To assess risk and develop management plans, reviews and adjust in line with the service user's needs.
• To consider the holistic care needs and identify when and how to appropriately refer on to services that can meet the individual needs
• To work in collaboration with service users & their family/carers as experts in their own care

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Mental Health Practitioner

Experience

• Registered Nurse, Mental Health Practitioner
• Excellent communication skills
• Evidence of effective interpersonal skills
• Able to use a computer & IT systems to meet the requirements of the role
• Being able to work within a multi-disciplinary team
• Risk assessment skill
• To act as a role model for junior team members

Additional Criteria

• Experience of working in an OPMH setting
• Experience of conducting formal memory assessments, and in using memory assessment tools.
• Knowledge/understanding of dementia and associated behaviours/interventions
• Ability to organise self and others to achieve task
• Knowledge of the key principles of safeguarding children and adults
• Knowledge of the key principles of the Mental Capacity Act
• Knowledge/awareness of the current NICE guidance relating to dementia and memory assessment pathway
• Ability to facilitate clinical supervision

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.