Job summary

The Memory Assessment Service are a service which is committed to delivering high quality and compassionate care for people aged 65 years old and over who have complex mental health needs, and people with suspected diagnosis of dementia. The service provides early identification of dementia or cognitive impairment by means of memory assessment, cognitive screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Part of your role will be compassionately delivering diagnosis of dementia to our patients and discuss currently available treatment options.

Clinical duties includetriaging referrals, offering advice and signposting,contributingtowards weekly MDT where your assessments will be discussed with other professionals. Carrying out specialist mental health assessments for individuals with memory impairment, imparting diagnoses and commencing treatment where appropriate.Patient assessments are face to face or virtualusing video software of which are across various LPT sites including The Bennion Centre and The Neville Centre as well as at county locations across Leicestershire.

As Team Leadmanagerial duties wouldinclude to lead, co-ordinate, organise and prioritise your own work and the work of the team on a day to day basis and ensure supervision of others and participate in education and development.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be expected to perform and monitor comprehensive assessments of clients/service users needs. Plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health care needs, takingcontinuous management responsibility for the delivery of care needs of individual and groups of clients/service users. To ensure patient information is collated, monitored and fully accurate, maintaining complete and contemporaneous records in line with NMC/ professional bodies and Trust standards.

Promotingthe involvement and engagement of clients/service users and carers / relatives in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of care. Workingcollaboratively and ensure maintenance of effective multi-disciplinary communication and with other professionals, agencies and stakeholders to ensure needs are met in relation to care input, support for ongoing care needs and safe discharge. The post holder will communicate highly complex information about clients/service users conditions to multi-disciplinary team colleagues, to ensure effective delivery of patient treatments.

To ensure that systems are established and maintained to ensure effective communication with clients/service users, and carers / relatives. Lead and support others to recognise, prioritise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations including the assessment and management of risk.

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri