MAS Specialist Community Practitioner

Dorset Health Care University NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 15 March 2026

Are you a caring, enthusiastic registered professional who is passionate about helping people with Dementia? We are looking for a Memory Assessment Service Specialist Community Practitioner to join our supportive multi‑disciplinary team.

As a Specialist Clinical Practitioner, working in the MAS East, you will be covering the Bournemouth and Poole area. This will be a mixture of clinic settings and home visits and working from home is an essential part of the role. You will be providing specialist care and interventions, assessments, treatments, and managing patients on a caseload, with a focus on providing a high‑quality person‑centred approach to care delivery which always considers people’s safety, privacy and dignity.

The role will allow you to actively participate in developing high‑quality and innovative services that aim to identify, diagnose and support people in the community with early dementia, involving service users and carers.

Driving is essential for this role. You will be required to have a full and valid UK driving licence and to travel using own vehicle on Trust business as you will be required to assess and monitor patients in their own homes and within other community settings.

This post is a full‑time position, 37.5 hours per week, between Monday‑Friday 9am‑5pm, but you may be required to work flexibly to meet service needs.

To find out more about the role or for an informal discussion, please contact Angela McHale, Team Leader,

You will have a key role in performing Initial Assessments with formal Cognitive Testing and this is the first part of a process leading to a possible diagnosis of a Dementia.

You will offer clinic and home‑based assessments as well as NHS video consultation and phone assessments. You will be highly skilled in communicating clearly and sensitively, both verbally and in writing, with clients and their carers, discussing diagnoses, treatment options and care plans.

You will work closely with health, medical and psychology colleagues, in line with NICE guidance, as part of medicines trials in the monitoring of Anticholinesterase drugs such as Donepezil, Galantamine and Rivastigmine as well as Memantine.

You will liaise with colleagues within the wider Dementia services, primary care, community health and social care services, voluntary sector organisations and the wider mental health teams for older adult services as appropriate.

You will be expected to deliver person‑centred care whilst meeting local and national targets set by the NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS England in relation to dementia.

Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.

At Dorset Health Care we’re on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined‑up healthcare services. We’re a dynamic, forward‑looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here – it’s one of the reasons the CQC rated us ‘outstanding’ in 2019. It’s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you’re looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000‑strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We’re all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

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