Primary Care Dementia Practitioner - Central, Fowey inSt Austell inSt Austell PUBLISHED
THU 24 OCT 2024
This permanent, full-time position (37.5 hours per week) requires the practitioner to ensure holistic consideration of both physical and mental health needs of dementia patients. Responsibilities include identifying individuals not recorded on GP dementia registers, improving awareness and detection among GP’s, and providing advice, education, and support to the affected individuals and their significant others. The role is vital in enhancing the overall care pathway for those living with dementia in the community across Cornwall.
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 will meet the needs of people with dementia and their carers living in the community across Cornwall.
This is permanent post working 37.5 hrs per week.
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.
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