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.
You will be employed by Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust, working under the direct management of the Consultant Admiral Nurse, and will receive ongoing support from Dementia UK to maintain and strengthen your clinical expertise as a specialist nurse within dementia care. You will also become part of the wider network of Admiral Nurses and will have the opportunity to access relevant post graduate courses and develop professionally, underpinned by the Admiral Nurse Practice Standards Framework.
The successful applicant will be an NMC registered (adult/mental health/learning disability) nurse, with significant post-registration clinical experience of working with people with dementia and supporting their carers/supporters in different settings, including the acute setting, along with formal knowledge of dementia acquired through clinical post-graduate training/education.
To find out more about the role of an Admiral Nurse, candidates are encouraged to complete Dementia UK’s free online course: An introduction to Admiral Nursing: a focus on families and relationships. This could be before you submit your application, prior to any interview where applicable, or following an offer of employment and before taking up the post.
For further information please refer to Job Description
Please submit your CV and a covering letter with your application.
If you consider that you have the skills and abilities to join our exceptional team, please contact:
Frances Usher-Smith [email protected] or 02392 28600 ext 3615
Phil Hall [email protected]
Closing date:6th December 2026
Interview date: 22nd December 2026
- 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
- 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
Skills and Knowledge
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
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Smoke Free Policy:
All of our hospitals operate a strict no smoking policy. Smoking cigarettes or tobacco products is not allowed on any of the grounds or in any of the buildings run by us. This applies to patients, staff, carers and visitors to Trust premises.
Our goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone we care for and, by making sure that our NHS services are smoke-free, we benefit the health of people who use our services as well as the health of the people who work for us.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026
Smoke Free Policy:
All of our hospitals operate a strict no smoking policy. Smoking cigarettes or tobacco products is not allowed on any of the grounds or in any of the buildings run by us. This applies to patients, staff, carers and visitors to Trust premises.
Our goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone we care for and, by making sure that our NHS services are smoke-free, we benefit the health of people who use our services as well as the health of the people who work for us.