Memory Assessment Practitioner

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The opportunity has arisen for a Memory Assessment Practitioner role, working across the county to actively participate in the Memory Assessment pathway, with a new dedicated pathway being created.
This role is part of a dynamic review of how we deliver our memory services to broaden access and ensure delivery of specialist memory assessment in a timely manner. It is essential to enable timely diagnosis (of dementia) that supports access to early treatment and support, decision making and aids optimal management and life outcomes for those in need.
The successful candidate will be required to competently assess patients, completing also the planning and delivery of assessment outcomes, which includes dispersing dementia diagnoses, when made and discussing medication options where applicable.
The service is currently county wide, however we particularly encourage applicants from the south of the county and the need to travel to bases countywide will frequently be required to support the service needs. This will be balanced with home based working as the post is hybrid working.
The post currently involves undertaking remote (via video call) or clinic-based appointments following the Memory Pathway and Protocols.
You will be responsible for making the initial contact to support patients and carers in their understanding of the memory pathway and undertake a detailed history taking using a holistic memory assessment framework, with the initial collation of all clinically relevant individual service user information (clinical history) and involve carers using agreed service formats.
There is a requirement to accurately and contemporaneously record and document clinical discussions and assessment details on RiO clinical system.
Your comprehensive assessment and detailed history taking will be presented to the multi-disciplinary team. You will then communicate the findings including diagnosis to the person assessed and if appropriate their loved ones .
Prospective applicants need to be aware that there are prolonged periods of remote working either at home or an LPFT base. The Memory Support Service primarily communicate and meet via MS Teams. However, there are regular in person team building days and the MS teams platform provides a quality experience in terms of access to colleagues.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
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Undertaking remote or clinic-based appointments following the Memory Pathway and Protocols.
Present cases to a consultant-led multidisciplinary team to enable diagnostic decision making.
Whilst utilising clinical expertise and clinical skills, enhance the experience of all appropriate patients under the memory pathway to access and use the facilities/services available.
Enable patients to be assessed and supported remotely or within clinics.
Responsible for making the initial contact to support patients and carers understanding of the memory pathway.
Undertake detailed history taking using a holistic memory assessment framework.
Responsible for the initial collation of all clinically relevant individual service user information (clinical history) and involve carers using agreed service formats.
Ensure that all individual service user documentation is up to date and available to inform internal clinical meetings and aid consistent decision making.
Support and participate in the development of integrated pathways and care packages which enable patients to be safely cared for within Older Adult Clinical pathways.
Accurately record and document clinical discussions and assessment details on RiO clinical system.
Attend meetings relating to clinical activities as directed.
Assist the Multi-Disciplinary team to gather, clarify and support decision making relating to diagnosis and treatment pathways.
Record and communicate information relevant to the patient care plans and individual programmes.
Maintain an up-to-date awareness of current practice relating to digital care, legislation relating to confidentiality to support pathway.
Record or dictate the history and physical condition in the medical record according to Trust guidelines.
Advise patients regarding mental and physical health, including:
Clinical pathways (dependent which one the patient is on)
Diet and advice
Life Style support
Treatment pathways
Sign posting to other services (including DSS; Carers First etc)
Support documentation preparation when referring patients to appropriate community health facilities, agencies and resources.
Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team i.e. Consultant Psychiatrists, Junior Doctors, Nurse Practitioners, staff grade nurses, support workers, Psychologists, Physiotherapist’s, Occupational therapists, Social Services Staff, physicians, etc to encourage and ensure good working relationships.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s professional and team/operational manager(s).
To maintain the highest standards of clinical record-keeping and report-writing in accordance with professional codes of practice of LPFT.s
To prepare test materials and visual aids as required.
To undertake specific administrative duties as required.
To perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade, which may be required from time to time by the Manager.
To participate in the Individual performance and development review process.
To be confident in using video call technology and message function to access peer networks and to be part of the Memory assessment service across the county

Please refer the Job description for details