Band 7- Clinical Practitioner, Home Dementia Support Service

The Methodist Church in Britain; England; In loco; GBP 40.000 - 50.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible working options

Descrizione del lavoro

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, in partnership with Alzheimer’s Society, seeks a fixed-term Clinical Practitioner to deliver specialist dementia care in care homes across South and West Hertfordshire. The role includes staff coaching, care planning and multidisciplinary collaboration.

The post requires senior clinical experience, leadership capabilities and current registration with a statutory regulator.

Competenze

• Degree level qualification in a healthcare profession or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to assessment, dementia care and clinical practice.

Mansioni

• Provide specialist clinical care, including holistic assessments and personalised care plans for residents with dementia.
• Empower care home teams through education, coaching and ongoing clinical guidance.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary support with residents, families, care home staff, GPs, community and mental health services.

Conoscenze

Dementia care

Delirium knowledge

Frailty

Consent & safeguarding

Care planning

Clinical governance

Staff coaching

Formazione

Healthcare degree

Descrizione del lavoro

This fixed-term Clinical Practitioner post sits within the Care Home Dementia Support Service of West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, run with the Alzheimer's Society across South and West Hertfordshire. The core work is specialist clinical assessment and personalised care planning for residents with dementia, starting with severe dementia, alongside coaching for care home staff. It is outreach across residential and nursing homes, 37.5 hours a week Monday to Friday, with arrangements agreed to suit the service. Management or leadership experience and a current statutory regulator registration are required.

What the job involves

• Provide specialist clinical care, including holistic assessments, personalised care plans and specialist advice for residents with dementia
• Empower care home teams through practical education, coaching, case-based learning and ongoing clinical guidance
• Coordinate multidisciplinary support with residents, families, care home staff, GPs, community and mental health services, social care and voluntary organisations
• Support residents and families to understand dementia, navigate services and take part in decisions about care
• Promote early intervention, recognise deterioration and ensure timely escalation
• Help reduce avoidable hospital admissions and improve residents' quality of life
• Work autonomously, knowing when to seek advice or bring concerns
• Champion dignity, independence and person-centred care for people living with dementia

What’s required

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in a healthcare profession, or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to assessment, dementia care and clinical practice

Registration & licences

• Current registration with a statutory regulatory body

Experience

• Management or leadership experience
• Substantial relevant experience supporting people with dementia and complex health needs
• Experience recognising deterioration and coordinating clinical escalation
• Experience working within multiagency policy, protocols and guidelines
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex situations
• Experience educating, coaching and supporting staff

Skills & knowledge

• Ability to assess learning needs and facilitate reflective practice
• Specialist knowledge of dementia, delirium, frailty, deterioration and person-centred responses to distress, including dementia and delirium care management
• Knowledge of local and national dementia priorities
• Understanding of consent, mental capacity, best-interest decision-making, deprivation of liberty safeguards, adult safeguarding and confidentiality
• Knowledge of care planning, clinical risk assessment and acute, community, primary care and mental health interfaces
• Understanding of staff learning needs, coaching, competency assessment and clinical governance

Nice to have

• NHS Leadership course or equivalent Masters, or evidence of working towards one
• Postgraduate qualification in dementia, older people's care or clinical assessment, or a teaching qualification
• Experience developing champions or delivering training and education to staff
• Knowledge and understanding of clinical audit and effective research
• Knowledge of quality improvement methodologies
• Experience working in different care settings, including mental health
• Experience of safeguarding adults
• Experience in care home outreach, community services, frailty and older people's mental health

What’s offered

• Flexible working options