Primary Care Dementia Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
As a Primary Care Dementia Practitioner, you will be part of a specialist team supporting people with dementia, their families, and carers across Cornwall. You will work closely with GP surgeries, the Memory Assessment Service, and Dementia Older People's Mental Health to provide seamless support. The role involves assessing needs, problem-solving, and putting solutions in place to prevent crises and admissions. This is an exciting time with a new joint venture strengthening collaborative working to make a positive difference.
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of approaches that promote the well-being of people living with dementia
- Experience of engaging with people living with a long term condition/mental health problem or dementia and their families
- Education / Qualifications
- Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC
- Professional qualification - RMN, RNLD, RNC, OT, PT, SLT
- Skills and Aptitude
- Develop and maintain good professional relationships with health, social work and independent sector staff.
- Knowledge and abilities
- Knowledge of approaches that promote the well-being of people living with dementia
- Experience of engaging with people living with a long term condition/mental health problem or dementia and their families
- Education / Qualifications
- Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC
- Professional qualification - RMN, RNLD, RNC, OT, PT, SLT
- Skills and Aptitude
- Develop and maintain good professional relationships with health, social work and independent sector staff.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Primary Care Dementia Practitioner
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
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 toprovide 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 willwork 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 workin
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