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Job summary

Main area
Dementia Team
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
162-7605-CORP
Employer
Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Across sites
Town
Romford
Salary
£44,485 - £52,521 per annum inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/02/2026 23:59

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Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Band 6 Admiral Nurse – Dementia Specialist RN

Band 6

 

PEOPLE are at the HEART of everything we do

This video gives a flavour of what it is like to work at our Trust and why some of our staff love working here 💙

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePIUCfMPLk

Job overview

In collaboration with Dementia UK - Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) are looking to recruit an experienced, registered nurse with a passion for, and experience of, providing relationship-centred dementia care to join our team.

Admiral Nurses are specialist dementia nurses who work with and support people with dementia and their families. As the Admiral Nurse, Band 6, you will be within the wider Admiral Nursing, Dementia Service to influence, deliver, and coordinate relationship-centred dementia care within the hospital setting.

You will support the Band 7 Admiral Nurse Lead in the operational delivery of the Dementia & Delirium agenda, raising awareness with a high visible presence in the clinical areas and provide practical solutions for families, alongside supporting best practice and providing role modelling within BHRUT.

You will have the opportunity to access relevant post-graduate courses and develop professionally, as informed by the Admiral Nurse Competency Framework to maintain and strengthen your clinical expertise as a specialist nurse within dementia care.

You will be an NMC registered (adult/mental health/learning disability) nurse, educated to degree level with post-registration clinical experience of working with people with dementia and supporting their carers/supporters within different care settings. 

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of the wider Corporate Nursing Safeguarding Team (including Dementia and Learning Disability and Autism), supporting the Band 7 Lead Admiral Nurse in the operational delivery of the dementia and delirium agenda. 

You will work within the Trust to raise awareness of dementia and delirium associated with dementia or cognitive impairment, with a high visible presence in clinical areas and to act as a role model and champion for dementia and delirium. The Band 6 Admiral Nurse will support, deliver and coordinate relationship-centred dementia care in order to improve the experience of carers/families affected by dementia with complex needs, during the acute stay and transitions of care within operational areas of BHRUT.

In addition, you will be expected to deputise in the absence of the Band 7 Lead Admiral Nurse and provide direct line management to the Band 4 Dementia Nursing Associate (this is a job shared role).

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role.  Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Louise Lucy Glavin, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 Ext. 5936. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Registered Nurse (Adult / Mental Health/ Learning Disabilities)

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Minimum 2 years’ experience of working within an acute adult setting or experience of working with adults living with Dementia, ideally in an acute hospital setting
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience of audit/ evaluating clinical practice
  • • Experience of professional supervision/ mentoring of staff

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jo Kavanagh
Job title
Dementia Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01708435000

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex
RM7 0AG
Telephone
01708 435000 5936