Primary Care Dementia Practitioner - N&E Camel team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 22.3
- 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
This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Primary Care Dementia Practitioner within the County Wide Primary care Dementia Practitioner service in Cornwall. The role involves working with GPs to meet the needs of people with suspected or diagnosed dementia, providing support and interventions. You will be a key link for people with dementia and their carers, facilitating early diagnosis and detection. The post holder will provide independent expert advice, information, and support, committed to improving quality of life for people with dementia and their families.
Essential criteria
- To have worked independently without direct supervision
- 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
- Computer literacy
- Working with people with dementia
- Education / Qualifications
- Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC
- Professional qualification - RMN, RNLD, RNC, OT, PT, SLT
- Knowledge and abilities
- To have worked independently without direct supervision
- 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
- Computer literacy
- Working with people with dementia
- Education / Qualifications
- Current professional registration - NMC, HCPC
- Professional qualification - RMN, RNLD, RNC, OT, PT, SLT
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 - N&E Camel team
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the County Wide Primary care Dementia Practitioner service in Cornwall.
This innovative service continues to move forward whilst working with GP's to meet the needs of the people with a suspected dementia, and a diagnosis of dementia. Based in primary care but with close links to the complex care and dementia community teams you will deliver support and interventions. You will be a key link in the journey for people with dementia and their carers and also offer support to facilitate early diagnosis and detection. You will need to have a passion and motivation for working with people with dementia and be an effective communicator as the role involves liaising with a variety of agencies.We are seeking highly motivated individuals from a variety of backgrounds including nursing, occupation therapy, psychology and social work and who hold a professional qualification to reflect this. The post holder must be committed to improving quality of life for people with dementia, and their family/carers, as well as leading on developing person-centred care, providing independent expert advice, information and support. Primary care based dementia practitioners will meet the needs of peopl
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