Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery Registered
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (Or secondment ending 31th March 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9-5)
- Job ref
- 246-ESU7040855-B
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mariner House
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 gross per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
New Exciting Pilot
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Health Practitioner to join our colleague working in the new pilot service delivering a Primary Care Model of support in partnership with the Alzheimer's Society. Although a prescribing qualification is desirable, it is not essential. The post is for a Fixed Term Contract or as a Secondment Opportunity ending 31st March 2026. It is ideal for experienced Band 6 practitioners who would like the chance to develop more senior leadership skills and experience.
Current diagnosis rates in Suffolk are below national average rates and yet we know that getting a diagnosis enables people living with dementia to access treatments, (where appropriate), plan for the future, access care, and receive essential information and advice.
Working in the allocated GP Practice areas in Suffolk (Burlington, Peninsula and Saxmundham). You will be working with a Dementia Adviser to support assessment and follow-up of those presenting with early symptoms of dementia. You will have the support of the Suffolk Memory Assessment Services for formulating diagnoses, exploring treatment decisions and for Management Supervision.
Main duties of the job
As part of this role, you will:
- . Complete holistic assessments for service users identified by the Dementia Adviser as presenting with cognitive difficulties.
- Attend the Memory Service MDT to discuss assessments and to formulate diagnoses.
- Deliver assessment outcomes to service users and discuss next steps.
- You will provide information about healthy lifestyle choices, possible treatment options and will signpost back to the Dementia Advisor for ongoing support.
- Review Service Users - for progression of cognitive symptoms and to follow up response to treatments, where applicable.
- Work in partnership with the Dementia Advisor and Social Prescriber affiliated with the GP practices.
- Attend the Practice MDT meetings
- Contribute to providing education to Primary Care colleagues regarding signs and symptoms of cognitive impairment.
- Provide training sessions about maintaining Brain Health within Primary Care - both for professionals and for those living with health conditions that increase the risk of developing dementia.
- Contribute to the evaluation of the Pilot.
Training and support will be provided by the Suffolk Memory Assessment Service, and there will be opportunities to shadow practitioners working in the service to learn the assessment process, including the application of the cognitive test.
As this is a Pilot, there is scope to develop the role according to local need, service user response and opportunities for improvement.
Working for our organisation
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are interested in developing your leadership skills while working in a clinical role, and would you like to contribute to an exciting initiative aiming to identify people's cognitive changes as early as possible in order to improve the prognosis for them and their families, then this is the opportunity for you!
Candidates must be able to work autonomously and be skilled at developing relationships with stakeholders across the Integrated Care System. Support and guidance will be available from the Memory Assessment Services and Alzheimer's Society colleagues, but innovation is encouraged. New ways of working to address the unprecedented need for support from Dementia services are being explored and you can play a pivotal role in this part of the diagnostic pathway.
It is vital that the successful candidate demonstrates values and behaviours reflective of those of our Trust and this is a focus of the interview process. Please see the Trust generic job description and the main duties summary.
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN or equivalent professional qualification
Desirable criteria
- Non-Medical Independent Prescriber.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of practice within clinical area with proven track record in delivering high quality care.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching or training experience or qualification.
- Experience of implementing evidence based practice and or service improvement initiative.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate sound clinical expertise and knowledge of mental health disorders and their treatments.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charlotte West
- Job title
- Clinical Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01473296195
- Additional information
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