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An exciting new role has opened within the new Argyll & Bute Enhanced Community Dementia Service.
We are looking to recruit a Band 7 Mental Health Advance Nurse Practitioners to our growing service.
The service is currently in an exciting period of growth and transformation, to provide locality based specialist dementia care for pre, peri and post diagnostic dementia care and support.
This is an interesting and exciting opportunity that will provide you with a challenging and rewarding role within the multi professional dementia team and the opportunity to be part of shaping this developing service.
We will expect you to have well-developed clinical assessment skills, leadership skills, an ability to compile care plans in partnership with service users and carers.
The priorities of this post will be to facilitate rapid access to a diagnosis, treatment, crisis prevention and intervention along with preventing avoidable hospital admissions and assisting with timely discharge from hospital.
The service comprises of three teams staffed with mental health nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, senior health care support workers and Alzheimer Scotland post diagnostic link workers.
All of the teams are an integral part of the Argyll and Bute Enhanced Community Dementia service and work jointly with Community Health Services, Mental Health, Primary Care and other agencies including social care.
Candidates should have experience in working with people living with dementia and possess a master’s level qualification in Advanced Practice or be willing to be appointed as a trainee (Annex 21) and undertake the training required.
This opportunity is open to qualified advanced nurse practitioners, existing band 7s and experienced band 6 nurses who are willing to undertake training as an ANP at a Masters level to become a qualified ANP.
If you are interested in becoming a trainee ANP, you would be expected to undertake study at master’s degree level.
On qualification at masters level you would be appointed to a Band 7 ANP substantive post in the area that you have trained in.
For further information please contact Fiona Blair ECDS Team lead.
email:fiona.blair@nhs.scot
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