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Job overview

This role is based within our Care Home Pathway. You will be working alongside colleagues from a range of professional backgrounds (psychology, occupational therapy, nursing and associate nurse practitioners) and the Surrey Heath Integrated Care Team to provide specialist advice and consultation to people with dementia living in care homes within the local area.  You will be assisting people who are displaying behaviours that challenge themselves and/or others by drawing on ideas from a Positive Behaviour Support framework.  You will also be supporting the CMHTOP in memory and functional assessments for patients in Care Homes.

 This is a senior role within our Care Home Pathway; you will be expected to provide leadership to the team, including supervising and line managing the Care Home Pathway junior staff.

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will include completing assessments with a wide range of people, helping teams to understand behaviour that challenges and sharing ideas to promote wellbeing.  You will have skills in writing care plans for people with dementia and/mental health disorder and sensitively sharing these ideas with staff teams.  You will possess the dementia knowledge and skills to work at a high level of competence within agreed protocols and with clearly defined lines of accountability for delegated work.  Finally, you will be prepared to role-model ideas (including the provision of personal care where needed) and also be competent in negotiating IT systems (such as SystmOne). 

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Please note if the role has been advertised as a Home Working Contract Only - Eligibility to high cost area supplement is conditional upon candidates residence and will be discussed on offer. 

We look forward to receiving your application!