Primary Care Dementia Practitioner

Main area Primary Care Dementia Practitioner Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent:
Three days per week Hours Part time - 22.3 hours per week (Mon - Fri, 9am-5pm) Job  
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Site Basset Unit / Longreach House Town Redruth Salary £32,073 - £39,043 Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 13/10/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

• Care based on what matters to people.
• Care provided at home or close to home.
• Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Prevention and alternatives to hospital.

• Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Technology enabled care.
• Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Safe, efficient, effective and productive.

• A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.

• Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Joined-up community services.
• Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As a Primary Care Dementia Practitioner you will be a part of a specialist team who are based across Cornwall and are passionate about providing support for people with dementia, their families, and carers.

We work closely with the Memory Assessment Service and Dementia Older People's Mental Health to provide seamless support throughout a person’s journey with dementia, helping people to live as well as possible, for as long as possible, in their own community.

Primary Care Dementia Practitioners listen, assess, problem solve and put solutions in place, thereby, avoiding crisis, preventing admissions to care home or hospital.

As a successful candidate you will work closely with a designated group of GP surgeries and hold a case list of people who have been diagnosed with dementia and are registered to those GP surgeries.

This is a particularly exciting time from Primary Care Dementia Practitioners as we are embarking on a joint venture between Alzheimer's Society, Disability Cornwall and Memory Matters, strengthening our collaborative working to make a positive difference for people with dementia, their families and carers .

This is an opportunity for applicants who are highly motivated, with transferable skills from previous experience working in Mental Health, Dementia or Physical Health and from a perspective which may be General Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or a variety of other professional backgrounds.

• Offer a skilled assessment to identify the needs of people with dementia and their family carers.
• Provide specialist information and advice for carers on the different aspects of caring for a relative or friend with dementia.
• Work with people and their families from their diagnosis throughout their dementia journey, providing emotional, psychological support and guidance on how to access services.
• Help family carers to develop and improve their skills so they can assist with caregiving.
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