HCL Mental health are recruiting Dementia and Frailty Specialist CPN’s to complete assessments of Adult patients in a community setting in Maldon. This role is an immediate start with detailed induction and support.
Core Clinical Function:
- Provide and oversee the management and care of service users.
- Produce accurate and timely documentation, conduct and manage the maintenance of accurate and timely documentation / records on all service users in line with your professional code of conduct and Trust policy.
- Oversee the conduct / contribute to the assessment process, as well as the observation and ongoing assessment, providing accurate and timely feedback
- Conduct risk assessment of the individual and of the potential hazards in the service user’s environment
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings i.e. referral / review / business
- Report and document incidents as required
- Conduct and oversee physical health care checks and act upon the findings
- Act as a care coordinator / and or key worker
- Responsible for administration of medications, assessment of side effects, review concordance and clinical effectiveness of medication regime in line with Trust policy including safe transportation and storage of medicines, checking receipt, storage of medicines in medicine cupboard.
- Provide education around the medication prescribed, side effects, actions and aids to compliance.
- Provide psycho-social intervention, education and support to develop service users understanding of mental illness with aim to prevent relapse and admission and training packages for staff
- Provide practical support, guidance and education for service users, carers
- Undertake carers assessment in line with the Trust’s key performance indicators
- Undertake needs assessments
- Provide comprehensive assessment, care planning, treatment and review of care
- Undertake physical health checks of services users and act on the findings appropriately
- Understand and utilise Health and Social Care commissioned services, demonstrating an empathetic approach of Fairer Access to Care Services
- Support in the management of duty, to include triaging of referrals and allocations.
About HCL Mental Health
HCL Mental Health (part of HCL Workforce Solutions) is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of high quality mental health professionals. We work with candidates to provide flexible, career-boosting roles all across the UK.
With years of experience, a huge number of awards and relationships with hundreds of NHS trusts & private hospitals in every corner of Britain, we can offer you opportunities to suit your lifestyle and ambitions – whether on a locum or permanent basis.
Benefits HCL Mental Health can offer you:
- Weekly payment
- Competitive pay rates
- Refer a friend scheme*
- Opportunities with hundreds of NHS trusts and local authorities
- Access to exclusive placements
- A dedicated recruitment consultant
- A dedicated registration team to help you through the application process
- Free mandatory training
To discuss this role or our other roles throughout the UK, apply with your CV or email Cerys Davidson on cerys.davidson@hclworkfroce.com
HCL is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, age, race, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, religion and belief, pregnancy and maternity or disability.
This vacancy is based in the United Kingdom. HCL operate in the UK and can only process applications from candidates who are currently UK residents and eligible to work in the UK. Whilst we will endeavour to contact you following your response, due to the high volume of applications we regret that this cannot always be possible. If you have not had notification from us within 30 days please take your application as not being successful this time but we will keep your details on file for future opportunities.
