Assistant Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join us in the older people and frailty team in Spalding. Our team support patients over the age of 65 with severe and enduring mental health diagnoses and provide an all-age memory assessment, diagnosis and treatment pathway.

This job role will focus on our memory pathway, and the post holder will be supporting our patients who already have a diagnosis of dementia. We are based at the Johnson Hospital in Spalding, a modern purpose-built hospital with free staff parking.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this role. Please provide details of the visa type and expiry date in your application. Failure to provide the required information will result in your application being rejected.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this role will be to support patients newly diagnosed with dementia when starting medication by monitoring side effects and responses and reporting these back to the medical team. You will also be responsible for yearly checks of dementia medication with patients and their carers and then communicating any concerns back through to the medical team. Training and support will be given. The candidate will require excellent communication and organisational skills to undertake this role and will also need to have a good understanding of basic computer skills, as our clinical notes are all digital. You will be expected to investigate information from several clinical systems and sources.

Training on these systems would be provided. Ideally the candidate will have a broad understanding of dementias, and it would be a suitable role for someone who has already worked within the care sector or with patients who have a dementia diagnosis.

About us

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.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.