Band 6 Memory Nurse - Kingswood Civic Centre

at  Avon Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

To provide initial specialist assessment for individuals experiencing problems with their memory and cognition. Holding a caseload of service users whilst the process of their assessment and diagnosis progresses. To liaise and participate with other members of the multidisciplinary team, family members, carers, Primary Care and other agencies involved with individual service users to formulate diagnoses. To communicate diagnosis to individual service users and those in their care network, both in person and in writing.
To be involved in a range of interventions offered by the service, including Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (subject to the necessary training). Signposting service users and carers to other services as appropriate. To provide support and advice to Carers through individual and/or group work. To contribute to integrated governance processes, including the continuing development, improvement and monitoring of service provision and performance, and monitoring standards of care, through data collection and audit processes.
To work in partnership with other local statutory and voluntary organisations in the provision of a range of interventions and support for service users and carers. To provide support, advice and training as appropriate to other services and agencies involved in the provision of services to people with memory problems. To be responsible for the supervision of identified staff and provision of training for students of various disciplines as appropriate. Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details

Please refer the Job description for details