Dementia Crisis Senior Practitioner

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Dementia Crisis Practitioner, where you will deliver rapid, person-centred interventions to prevent hospital admissions for individuals living with dementia. Collaborate with various partners and contribute to service improvement initiatives while promoting community-based care.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Flexible working

Learning and Development opportunities

Staff Support

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in dementia care.
• Experience in partnership working.

Responsibilities

• Complete rapid, holistic assessments for individuals in crisis.
• Develop and deliver person-centred crisis intervention plans.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Clinical Judgement

Partnership Working

Crisis Intervention

Education

Professional Registration

CPD

Mentor or Teaching

Job description

Job overview
We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Dementia Crisis Practitioner to temporarily join our frailty pathway team. You will work closely with health, social care, and voluntary sector partners to deliver rapid, person-centred interventions, helping to prevent hospital admissions for people living with or suspected dementia.
This role requires excellent clinical judgement, strong partnership working skills, and the ability to respond quickly and effectively to crisis situations. If you are passionate about improving community-based care for people living with dementia and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
• Complete rapid, holistic assessments for individuals in crisis.
• Develop and deliver person-centred crisis intervention plans.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams.
• Provide specialist advice and support to carers, families, and professionals.
• Advocate for least restrictive, community-based alternatives to hospital admission.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records and documentation.
• Participate in safeguarding processes and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Contribute to service improvement initiatives and audits.
• Promote resilience, reflective practice, and wellbeing within the team.

Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our team of dementia crisis practitioners provide specialised support to individuals with dementia who are experiencing acute behavioural or psychological distress. They work in a holistic system and are embedded within East Kent's frailty system. They have a focus on assessment and triage, crisis intervention, person centred approaches to manage behaviours that may challenge and ongoing education, support and signposting to system partners, families and carers.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Person specification

Registration & Qualification

Essential criteria

• Professional Registration
• CPD
• Mentor or teaching

Job overview
We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Dementia Crisis Practitioner to temporarily join our frailty pathway team. You will work closely with health, social care, and voluntary sector partners to deliver rapid, person-centred interventions, helping to prevent hospital admissions for people living with or suspected dementia.
This role requires excellent clinical judgement, strong partnership working skills, and the ability to respond quickly and effectively to crisis situations. If you are passionate about improving community-based care for people living with dementia and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
• Complete rapid, holistic assessments for individuals in crisis.
• Develop and deliver person-centred crisis intervention plans.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams.
• Provide specialist advice and support to carers, families, and professionals.
• Advocate for least restrictive, community-based alternatives to hospital admission.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records and documentation.
• Participate in safeguarding processes and multidisciplinary meetings.
• Contribute to service improvement initiatives and audits.
• Promote resilience, reflective practice, and wellbeing within the team.

Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our team of dementia crisis practitioners provide specialised support to individuals with dementia who are experiencing acute behavioural or psychological distress. They work in a holistic system and are embedded within East Kent's frailty system. They have a focus on assessment and triage, crisis intervention, person centred approaches to manage behaviours that may challenge and ongoing education, support and signposting to system partners, families and carers.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Person specification

Registration & Qualification

Essential criteria

• Professional Registration
• CPD
• Mentor or teaching

Desirable criteria

• Independent Prescriber
• Post Grad dementia development

Experience

Essential criteria

• 2 years+ (Band 6 or equivalent) experience in dementia care
• Partnership working

Desirable criteria

• Community Nursing Experience
• QI involvement

K&S

Essential criteria

• Clinical Assessment skill
• Frailty Management

KMPT Staff Benefits:
NHS pension scheme Your employer pays 23.7% towards your pension and life assurance benefits.
Please see Apply . Apply /Pensions.aspx for more details.
Annual leave for Agenda for Change On appointment to NHS
27 days for full time or pro rata if part time
After 5 years NHS service
29 days full time or pro rata if part time
After 10 years NHS service
33 days full time or pro rata if part time
Plus bank holidays, that's up to 41 days - more than 8 weeks paid time off!
Medical staffs have national Terms and Conditions.
Buying and selling of annual leave is also available as part of our flexible approach to staff benefits.
Recommend a friend campaign If you already work for us you could refer a friend from outside of the Trust to any of the roles below and you can receive £1000 if they are successfully recruited; Nursing staff - RMN RGN RNLD - Band 5 and 6, Medical Doctors, Clinical Psychologist and Allied Health Professionals,
Flexible working Covers job share, term time working, flexible shifts etc. Just ask and we will try to help.
Statutory and occupational maternity, paternity or adoption leave Dependant on length of NHS service
Other paid/unpaid leave This can be for Jury Service, Reserved Armed Forces, etc. This is paid outside of annual leave.
Non paid leave for career breaks
Staff Support KMPT offers a face to face counselling service for any issues not just work related problems.
NHS discounts and shopping vouchers Staff can sign up for Red Guava, PS discounts and Health Service Discounts to receive a variety of discounts in travel, fashion, technology, mobile phone contracts, food and drink, days out etc.
Learning and Development opportunities In addition to the mandatory subjects there are a number of leadership, management and staff topic areas, including coaching and mentoring.
Induction
KMPT is committed to supporting all new staff and this includes a comprehensive Induction programme. The programme's duration depends on role and can be from 2 days to 4 weeks (not always consecutive days).
The Induction programme will provide an excellent opportunity for new staff to meet and engage with KMPT's subject specialists and include the required training.
The programme may involve some travel to the various training venues across Kent and Medway, the main ones being Canterbury, Maidstone and Dartford.
New starter bonus At the Trust we really value our nurses and the skills they bring. To recognise this we offer a New Hire Bonus of £1200 pro rata for band 5 and 6

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