Job summary
The role of pathway manager in the Memory Service is to provide senior clinical and operational leadership across the pathway to ensure people with memory difficulties receive timely, high-quality assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing support. The role involves overseeing the patient journey from referral through to discharge, coordinating care across multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring services meet national standards, quality targets, and best practice guidance for dementia care. As an experienced clinician, the post holder will support complex clinical decision-making, risk management, and person-centred care for patients and their families.
In addition, the Pathway Manager will lead and support staff through supervision, performance management, training, and service development activities. They will play a key role in monitoring service performance, improving patient outcomes, managing waiting lists and pathway efficiency, and leading quality improvement initiatives. By working collaboratively with healthcare professionals, social care partners, and community organisations, they will help ensure a seamless and effective memory assessment and support service for individuals living with dementia and other cognitive disorders.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible and accountable for the delivery of safe, effective and efficient care to service users and carers within the pathway.
Understand and manager the flow of clinical work, ensuring the schedule's meet demand and maximise the functioning of the team.
To monitor and manager the staff resource and skill mic to meet demand whilst prioritising clinical activity and risk effectively.
Provide leadership and effective day to day line management, including the monitoring of quality and performance
Lead and communicate team communication, including holding regular team meetings, consult on service changes and developments.
Commitment to provide compassionate care based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.
About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please find attached job description for full details.
Date advertised - 13th October 2026
Closing date - 27th October 2026
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse qualification with current NMC registration
- Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
Desirable
- Relevant clinical experience in the speciality
- Leadership, teaching or coaching qualification
Knowldege and experience
Essential
- Knowledge of CQC standards and quality assurance
- Knowledge of assessment process and management of risk
- Evidence of IT skills and ability to utilise electronic records
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries
- Experience of supervising, appraising and supporting staff
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS priorities and relevant national guidance
- Evidence of managing budgets and financial resource
- Experience of band 6 acting up or exisiting band 7
- Ability to manage competing demands
skills and competencies
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously
- Demonstrate effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate effective awareness of risk management and safeguarding
- Experience of working in MDT setting
Desirable
- Experience of leadership and effective decision making
- Understanding of quality and performance
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Monkwearmouth Hospital
Newcastle Road
Sunderland
SR5 1NB
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
