Primary Care Dementia Practitioner - Central, Fowey

Integrated Care System; St. Austell; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Cornwall is seeking a Primary Care Dementia Practitioner to support individuals living with dementia. This role requires a current professional registration and experience engaging with patients and their families. Working within a dedicated and supportive team, you will help to promote early diagnosis and provide holistic care for the community. This is a full-time position based in St. Austell.

Qualifications

• Must work independently without direct supervision.
• Knowledge of approaches promoting well-being for dementia patients.
• Experience engaging with long-term condition patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist support to individuals living with dementia.
• Work with medical colleagues to address holistic needs.
• Identify individuals with dementia not on GP registers.

Skills

Independent working

Knowledge of dementia well-being

Engagement with families

Experience with mental health problems

Education

Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC

Job description

Go back Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Primary Care Dementia Practitioner - Central, Fowey

The closing date is 14 August 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the County Wide Primary care Dementia Practitioner service in Cornwall.

This innovative service continues to move forward whilst working with GP's to meet the needs of the people with a suspected dementia, and a diagnosis of dementia. Based in primary care but with close links to the complex care and dementia community teams you will deliver support and interventions. You will be a key link in the journey for people with dementia and their carers and also offer support to facilitate early diagnosis and detection. You will need to have a passion and motivation for working with people with dementia and be an effective communicator as the role involves liaising with a variety of agencies.We are seeking highly motivated individuals from a variety of backgrounds including nursing, occupation therapy, psychology and social work and who hold a professional qualification to reflect this. The post holder must be committed to improving quality of life for people with dementia, and their family/carers, as well as leading on developing person-centred care, providing independent expert advice, information and support. Primary care based dementia practitioners meet the needs of people with dementia and their carers living in the community across Cornwall.

This is permanent post working Monday till Friday, 9am till 5pm, 37.5 hrs per week and is based in St Austell.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist support to individuals living with dementia and/or mental ill health (frequently associated with some form of dementia), carers and families and others who are significant to the individual and to work in partnership with general medical colleagues, ensuring physical and mental health needs of people with dementia are considered holistically.To work with Complex Care and Dementia and memory assessment service teams to provide a comprehensive service across the pathway for people diagnosed with dementia, whilst providing signposting, advice, education and support to both the person living with dementia and their families/significant other. To identify individuals with dementia, living in the community, who are not currently recorded on the GP dementia registers and to improve GP's awareness and detection of dementia.

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

Job responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• To have worked independently without direct supervision
• Knowledge of approaches that promote the well-being of people living with dementia
• Experience of engaging with people living with a long term condition/mental health problem or dementia and their families
• Working with people with dementia

Education / Qualifications

• Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC

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.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust