Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Job summary
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
Main duties of the job
NHS Band 7 Salary:£49,387 – £56,515 per annum
Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5
Contract Type: Permanent
We have 2 full time vacancies available one will be based at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3LY and the other will be based at St Mary’s Hospital (IOW), Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG
In collaboration with Dementia UK, we are looking to recruit an exceptional, registered nurse with a passion for, and experience of, providing relationship-centred dementia care to join our team as an Admiral Nurse.
Admiral Nurses are specialist dementia nurses who work with and support people with dementia and their families. As the Band 7 Admiral Nurse, you will be based at either Queen Alexandra Hospital or St Mary’s Hospital IOW and work within the wider dementia and delirium team to influence, deliver, and coordinate relationship-centred dementia care within the hospital setting.
As an Admiral Nurse you will provide specialist one-to-one support, guidance, and practical solutions for families, alongside supporting best practice and providing role modelling within Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust . You will also influence and lead on the delivery of work streams that improve the experience of care for people living with dementia, and their families throughout their hospital stay and across care transitions.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate:
- Person-centred care
- Therapeutic skills
- Triadic relationship centred working
- Sharing knowledge
- Delivering best practice
- Critical reflective practice
- Skills to enable clinical leadership, including:
- strong communication skills
- ability to build constructive relationships with key stakeholders and associated agencies
- good facilitation/presentation skills to a wide range of audiences
- good organisational skills
- expert clinical practice
- ability to act as a decision maker and advocate
- ability to use appropriate information technology, including MS office software to enable efficient service delivery and improvements to delivery of care
- ability to act as an effective role model
- ability to utilise research to evaluate and enhance practice
- Knowledge to enable clinical leadership, including an understanding of:
- Admiral Nursing and its application
- relevant policies/national strategy in relation to dementia care e.g. MCA/DoLS/ACP/NICE guideline/Care Act
- local/national skills and competency frameworks
- evidence based practice in dementia care and practical application within the relevant setting
- audit/evaluating clinical practice
- practice development/quality improvement and service evaluation
- Understanding of how frailty affects people with dementia and awareness of approaches used to identify and support frailty in acute care
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse (RN/RNMH/RNLD)
- Postgraduate qualification in relevant field, or evidence of specialist training/education within the field of dementia equivalent to this level
- Further specialist training/education within the field of dementia equivalent to a Masters levels
- Evidence of continued professional development/training in relevant areas, including dementia and leadership
- Commitment to continued professional and practice development
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration clinical experience of supporting people with dementia and their carers/families
- completing holistic nursing assessments
- providing bio-psychosocial interventions
- working as an autonomous practitioner
- professional supervision and development/mentoring of staff
- audit/evaluation of clinical practice
- collaborative/multi-agency working
- Experience in service specific setting
- Experience of facilitating and delivering training/ development of staff
- Experience of leading/managing a service
- Experience of supporting practice development/ quality improvement
- Experience of service monitoring, reporting and evaluation
- Experience of professional supervision of staff
Closing Date: 6 December 2026
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