Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Clinical

• Provide clinical leadership on the care of people with dementia and their carers/families with complex care needs from peri diagnosis to post bereavement support
• Provide specialist nursing assessment, using the Admiral Nurse Assessment Framework for carers/families affected by dementia
• Provide a range of bio-psychosocial interventions to promote health and wellbeing for people with dementia and their carers/families
• Work collaboratively with other professionals to improve the identification and management of co morbidities and frailty for people with dementia and their carers/families
• Develop and support care plans for people with dementia and families including positive risk management
• Support people with dementia, carers/families and staff to understand and respond to changes in behaviour and relationships as a result of dementia
• Provide care coordination for a clinical caseload of families with complex needs as identified within triage assessment in clinics or via home visit if required
• Ensure the safeguarding of vulnerable adults and that all legal requirements relating to Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007), and Deprivation of Libert Safeguards (2009)[1] are considered and adhered to in relation to patient care
• Act as an advocate for people with dementia and their carers/families to promote their rights and best interests
• Work collaboratively with health, social and voluntary sector services to achieve coordinated and integrated care
• Work in partnership with colleagues to promote the use of advance care planning for people with dementia and to support and inform families, around advance care planning, best interest decisions and end of life care
• Manage and advise on complex care transitions for people with dementia and their carers/families to reduce the frequency of crisis situations
• Ensure that care is delivered in accordance with relevant local and national guidelines and all relevant CNWL policies
• Recognise the limits of own competency and professional boundaries and make appropriate and timely referrals to other services where required

Education and Leadership

• Facilitate and support the development and delivery of innovative dementia training and education to staff, to improve competence and confidence, in line with best practice and guidance
• Participate in and/or lead formal training events promoting best practice in dementia care and disseminating Admiral Nursing work
• Provide professional and clinical leadership and mentorship, acting as a clinical role model on the delivery of evidence-based practice in dementia care within CNWL
• Advise and support on the development and delivery of work streams as part of CNWL’s, dementia strategy, where appropriate
• Work proactively with key local and national stakeholders to develop more integrated care pathways and holistic models of care, through dissemination of specialist skills and knowledge
• Contribute to the delivery of local policy, procedures and protocol for CNWL to improve identification, assessment, ongoing support for people with dementia and their family carers

Evaluation and Audit

• Support the audit and evaluation of quality improvements and initiatives aimed at improving the delivery of dementia care within CNWL, where appropriate to role
• Collect and review quantitative and qualitative data, as agreed, to evaluate and audit the Admiral Nurse Service and make necessary improvement
• Undertake analysis and evaluation and make any recommendations to the Brent ICP Board
• Ensure service information and data recorded is relevant, accurate, complete and captured in a contemporaneous manner
•  Support evaluation of workforce development in dementia to improve staff knowledge and skills across the host organisation

Please see the job description for full details on the role and responsibilities of this vacancy.