Dementia Nurse Specialist
Description
At Dorothy House Hospice Care, we are proud to provide exceptional, person-centred care to individuals and families through all stages of life-limiting illness. We are excited to be partnering with Dementia UK to deliver a specialist Admiral Nurse service that ensures people living with dementia-and those who care for them-receive expert guidance, holistic support, and compassionate, dignified care at the end of life.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an incredible team at our hospice and work as part of a national charity partnership, where your clinical expertise and emotional intelligence will directly impact the lives of patients, carers and families.
DEMENTIA NURSE SPECIALIST (ADMIRAL NURSE) | Band 6 | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
As an Admiral Nurse and dementia specialist, you will play a key role in improving the quality and experience of palliative and end of life care for people affected by dementia. You will provide specialist assessments and support across home, hospice, hospital and care home settings.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Deliver expert, relationship-centred dementia care to individuals and their carers from diagnosis to bereavement.
- Provide holistic bio-psychosocial assessments and tailor care plans that reflect individual needs, goals and dignity.
- Support care transitions and safe discharge planning to reduce admissions and improve outcomes.
- Lead on end of life conversations and advanced care planning in partnership with families.
- Collaborate with health, social care and voluntary sector professionals to deliver joined-up, person-led care.
- Act as a role model and educator to support best practice in dementia care across internal teams and external services.
- Contribute to local dementia strategies and drive service improvement through evaluation, audit and quality initiatives.
- Champion the values of both Dorothy House and Dementia UK, promoting compassion, dignity and respect in everything you do.
See our full detailed Job Description on our website for more information.
HOURS OF WORK
This is a Full Time position, working 37.5 hours over 5 days.
ABOUT YOU
Essential requirements:
- Registered Nurse (Adult / RMN / RNLD) with current NMC registration
- Post-registration clinical experience supporting people with dementia and their carers/families
- Evidence of continued professional development (CPD) relevant to dementia or palliative care
- Experience working as an autonomous practitioner with the ability to act as a decision maker
- Ability to deliver holistic, person-centred assessments and interventions
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to advocate effectively
- Can demonstrate experience managing an independent caseload
- Ability to use clinical systems and Microsoft Office applications effectively
Desirable requirements:
- Experience providing palliative and end of life care
- Experience of delivering / facilitating education or training to others
- Postgraduate qualification in dementia care or related field
- Level 7 qualification in Patient Assessment and Clinical Reasoning & Independent Prescribing qualification (or willingness to work towards)
- An understanding of audit, evaluation or quality improvement processes
ABOUT THE BENEFITS
Dorothy House is an incredible place to work, these are just a few of our benefits that we offer to our staff:
- 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days and then 33 days with length of service
- Excellent industry leading training with a focus on career development!
- Pension with Life Assurance.
- Colleague discount across our 27 retail stores.
- 45p per mile for work travel.
- Mindful Employer Plus Charter - supporting our colleagues with access to impartial, confidential advice when you need it most.
If this sounds like your ideal job, then we'd love to see your application.
To support your application for this post we strongly recommend that you complete the Dementia UK Pre Admiral Nurse elearning module, accessible via the link in our Job Description.
Please note that our vacancies can close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. We therefore encourage early submission of your application.
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Our 2021 Services Review identified how we need to work differently to achieve our strategic mission to ensure that “everyone has access to outstanding palliative and end of life care” and has presented us with an opportunity to improve on the “community development” work of the past and engage differently with our communities for the benefit of our patients, carers and families. Put another way, this is our moment ‘to do things differently’ and we are embracing this through Asset Based Community Development. We expect all staff to embrace this strategy and we will provide training accordingly.
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Your application will be processed. One of the team from Dorothy House may contact you to discuss your application further
If selected, you will be invited to attend an interview
We will keep you informed of the progress of your application throughout the selection process
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Elaine Kynaston, Dorothy House carer
Dorothy House is at the end of a phone whenever you need advice or reassurance. There’s just something about all the staff – they’re so approachable.
Angela Selman, DH patient, 2022
I was a Hospice at Home carer for thirty years. I think we all feel privileged to do it. It’s an honour to be with people at the very end of life.
Maggie Matthews, Dorothy House carer
I cannot put into words what a difference your carers made at such a dark time, and I will always be truly grateful.
Family of a patient, 2021
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