Community Psychiatric Nurse Dementia

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. We welcome applications from all sections of society.

We are seeking a Band 6 CPN for our growing service within the enhanced community dementia team.

The service is currently experiencing growth and transformation, providing locality-based specialist dementia care for pre, peri, and post-diagnostic support.

This role offers a challenging and rewarding opportunity within a multidisciplinary dementia team, with the chance to shape this developing service.

We expect you to have well-developed clinical assessment skills, leadership abilities, and the capacity to develop care plans collaboratively with service users and carers. The main priorities include facilitating rapid diagnosis access, treatment, crisis prevention, intervention, avoiding hospital admissions, and supporting timely discharges.

The service comprises three teams with mental health nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, senior healthcare support workers, and Alzheimer Scotland post-diagnostic link workers. These teams are integral to the Argyll and Bute Enhanced Community Dementia service and collaborate with Community Health Services, Mental Health, Primary Care, and other agencies, including social care.

For further information, please contact:

• Carol Jones, Clinical Services Manager. Email: carol.jones4@nhs.scot
• Paul Gourlay, Team Leader, Dementia Services. Email: paul.gourlay@nhs.scot

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NHS Highland covers Highland and Argyll & Bute, spanning 12,500 square miles. We strive to promote a positive culture aligned with our NHS and Social Care values: Care and Compassion, Dignity and Respect, Openness, Honesty and Responsibility, and Quality and Teamwork.

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