Lead Nurse in Dementia Rapid Response Team

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Milton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Derby invites Mental Health Nurses to join the Dementia Rapid Response Team. We support older adults living with dementia in crisis, using person-centred, non-pharmacological care delivered in the community across Derby City and South Derbyshire.

You will work 7 days per week with a 12‑week rolling roster, travel across the catchment, assess patients, apply MCA/MHAct where required, and coordinate with MDT colleagues to prevent hospital admission and

Responsibilities

• Manage complex cases as part of a wide multidisciplinary team (MDT) including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nurses, Dementia Specialist Support Workers, Psychology and a Consultant Psychiatrist.
• Be clinically responsible for supporting the delivery of a flexible, responsive local dementia service.
• Travel independently across the catchment area and occasionally outside of it when required.
• Work a shift pattern that facilitates operation 7 days per week.
• Undertake the Duty role: triaging referrals, allocating visits, preparing and delivering handovers, ensuring colleagues are safe and well.
• Complete initial patient assessments and apply the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act when required.
• Assess risk and formulate safety plans; develop person-centred care plans focusing on non-pharmacological interventions.
• Carry out in-reach to inpatient wards and visit patients in their own homes and in 24‑hour care settings.
• Utilise the EPR to ensure excellent documentation of patient assessment and treatment.

Job description

Are you a Mental Health Nurse with a passion for improving the quality of life of people living with dementia? Would you like to be part of a team that goes above and beyond in delivering innovative and holistic care in order to do this? Then the Dementia Rapid Response Team welcomes your application! Based in Derby, our service promotes a person-centred and non-pharmacological approach to support older adults living with a diagnosis of dementia, who may be experiencing or approaching a crisis in their mental health. We cover Derby City and South Derbyshire area. The aim of the service is to assist in maintaining the independence and dignity of those living with dementia, with the ultimate goal of preventing hospital admission where possible. In addition the DRRT can support early discharge from hospital, working closely with carers and relatives to facilitate this. Monday to Friday, 8am-8pm, and weekends and bank holidays, 9am-5pm. Staff work flexibly within these hours on a 12-week rolling roster.

• Employ a wide range of skills, building on and developing their expertise in managing complex cases as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team, which includes Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nurses, Dementia Specialist Support Workers, Psychology and a Consultant Psychiatrist.
• Be clinically responsible for supporting the delivery of a flexible, responsive local service within the community.
• Be expected to travel independently across the catchment area of the service and occasionally outside of this if required.
• Work a shift pattern facilitating the service, which operates 7 days per week.
• Undertake the Duty role; triaging referrals, allocating visits, preparing and delivering handover, ensuring colleagues are "safe and well".
• Work as part of a MDT; liaising with a multitude of different professionals and agencies.
• Complete initial assessments of patients.
• Apply knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act when required.
• Assess risk and formulating safety plans accordingly.
• Formulate person-centred care plans focusing on non-pharmacological interventions.
• In-reach to inpatient wards, attending 117 meetings.
• Visit patients in their own home and those in 24 care.
• Utilise the EPR to ensure excellent documentation of patient assessment and treatment.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the Trust". "As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visa's and Immigration. Please note without previous NHS Service you will commence at the bottom of the pay band which currently does not meet the minimum salary requirement for sponsorship for this post. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk websiteSkilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)"