Dementia and Delirium Specialist Nurse

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A large NHS Trust in the West Midlands is seeking two dynamic Clinical Nurse Specialists to enhance care for patients with dementia and delirium. The role involves acting as an expert resource for staff, ensuring high standards of care, and leading training initiatives. Candidates must have experience with dementia care and a relevant degree. The Trust offers a supportive environment with flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience in dementia and delirium care is essential.
• Strong leadership capabilities necessary for supporting ward teams.
• Familiarity with non-medical prescribing practices.

Responsibilities

• Act as an expert resource for clinical teams in dementia care.
• Proactively review patients with dementia or delirium.
• Lead training and development for staff regarding dementia practices.

Skills

Previous experience of working with dementia

Excellent communication skills

Non-medical prescribing

Education

Degree

Job description

re you passionate about transforming care for patients with dementia and delirium? Ready to drive forward innovation and excellence in clinical practice? We are seeking two, dynamic, forward thinking Ban 7 Clinical Nurse Specialists to join our team.

• The overall job purpose of the Dementia and delirium Nurse Specialist is to act as an expert resource for ward teams / departments in order to support them in the delivery of effective care for patients with dementia and delirium.

Main duties of the job

Advise on the care of people with dementia +/- delirium and their carers/families with complex care needs from peri diagnosis to bereavement support.

Improve identification and management of co morbidities and frailty for people with dementia +/- delirium.

Proactively review patients admitted with confusion from either dementia or delirium to assess cause of provide management advice to clinical teams

EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP

PATIENT AND STAFF INVOLVEMENT:

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

MANAGE AND DEVELOP THE PERFORMANCE OF A TEAM

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job responsibilities

• The overall job purpose of the Dementia and delirium Nurse Specialist istoact as an expert resource for ward teams / departments in order to support them in the delivery of effective care for patients with dementia and delirium.
• They will be responsible for proactively reviewing patients admitted with confusion either from dementia or delirium, to assess the cause and advise on management for clinical teams
• As a leader they will be responsible for ensuring a good understanding of dementia and delirium throughout the organisation, to ensure patients and carers receive a high standard of care.
• The Dementia and delirium nurse specialist will review the pathways relating to dementia and delirium to determine the key stages where s/he will have interventions to influence patient care. This includes contributing to the implementation and monitoring of assessment tools to ensure optimum safety and care in relation to dementia practice. This will require the person to adopt a highly visible and accessible approach for patients, their relatives/carers and staff.
• Leading by example s/he will empower staff in their personal and professional development to undertake a greater range of clinical skills to modernise and improve patient care, including uptake of training relating to dementia practice.
• The Dementia anddeliriumnurse specialist will review the nature of assessment and care planning which takes place across the organisation in relation to dementia and delirium. With particular attention on the stages when the patient may be transferred between services.
• The Dementia anddeliriumnurse specialist will be a source of knowledge and expertise, providing support to staff in their day to day management of patients who present with dementia. Excellent communication skills are essential to this role.
• Support the delivery of quality key performance indicators and evidence the impact relating todelirium and ordementia care, including the experience for carers.
• The post holder will be expected to play a proactive role in quality and service improvement and working closely with the Clinical matron and multi-disciplinary team will contribute to the monitoring and auditing of clinical standards of care within the defined specialty.

Person Specification

Experience

• Previous experience of working with dementia delirium
• Non medical prescribing
• degree

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.