Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) is an award winning Trust that provides health and social care services for a population of 1.3million people in Essex, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, and Luton. CQC says we’re still GOOD and now we’re OUTSTANDING for caring!
We employ 5,000 people working across more than 200 sites.
Our services include:
Mental health services
We provide a wide range of treatment and support to young people, adults and older people experiencing mental illness both as inpatients and within the community. This includes treatment in secure and specialised settings.
Community health services
Our diverse range of community health services provide support and treatment to both adults and children. We deliver this care in community hospitals, health centres, GP surgeries and in people’s homes.
Learning disabilities services
We provide crisis support and inpatient services and our community learning disability teams work in partnership with local councils to provide assessment and support for adults with learning disabilities.
Social care
We provide personalised social care support to people with a range of needs, including people with learning disabilities or mental illness, supporting people to live independently.
We are looking for individuals to join the EPUT team and be part of transforming services in our communities.
In return we can offer exceptional education, training and development opportunities as well as a wide range of benefits, which include flexible working opportunities, salary sacrifice schemes and the opportunity to buy or sell up to one week of annual leave to support a healthy work-life balance. In addition to this the Trust also offers a generous relocation package where applicants meet the eligibility criteria.
Our approach to recruitment is values based and applicant's must be able to demonstrate the organisations values and behaviours.
An exciting position has arisen within the North East Dementia Support Team. The successful candidate will work as a Band 6 senior qualified nurse within the Dementia Services. This will be with the Dementia Support Team in North East Essex which supports and assists in assessment of needs for individuals and supports appropriate care planning to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and for the facilitation of hospital discharge for those with a diagnosis of dementia or suspected dementia.
The post holder will work with a range of professionals and will have some link into other professional services within the North East. This includes the Single Point of Referral (SPOR) for older people and North University Hospital in particular. Areas of cover within North Hospital will include in-patient services alongside the A&E, AMU and DAU. Through the earlier intervention there is expectation that the Dementia Support Team will provide effective and efficient short-term support intervention whereby hospital admissions (including re-admissions) can be lessened.
The remit of the team and Dementia services is to support people and their carer’s in their own homes/care homes or alternative community environments during periods of acute illness and/or rehabilitation to prevent hospital admission.
The staff member will be a valued member of the Dementia Services which includes the Memory Service and Community Dementia Nurses and where appropriate will assist colleagues in practice.
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Open, Compassionate and Empowering. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
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