Admiral Nurse Clinical Lead
Dorothy House Hospice

The closing date is 25 November 2026

Job summary
Are you an experienced Dementia Specialist Nurse ready to take the next step into clinical leadership and help shape outstanding dementia, frailty, palliative and end-of-life care? This is an opportunity to combine direct clinical impact with the chance to lead change, develop others and shape the future of dementia and frailty care within a specialist hospice environment.

Main duties of the job
As our Admiral Nurse Clinical Lead, you will combine specialist clinical practice with leadership, education and service development, helping to improve the experience of palliative and end-of-life care for patients and families.

About us
At Dorothy House Hospice Care, we want people affected by dementia and frailty to receive compassionate, expert care that recognises what matters to them and those closest to them. Working in partnership with Dementia UK, you will provide expert dementia nursing practice, support complex clinical decision-making and help colleagues build their confidence and capability in dementia and frailty care.

Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, 30 hours per week over 4 days
Location: Based at our Hospice in Winsley, Wiltshire, with community working across our catchment area (hybrid working available)

About the benefits
Dorothy House is an incredible place to work. Some of our benefits include:

• 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 30 retail stores
• 55p per mile for work travel
• Mindful Employer Plus Charter - supporting our colleagues with access to impartial, confidential advice when you need it most

What will the role involve?

• Providing clinical leadership in evidence-based palliative and end-of-life care for people affected by dementia and frailty
• Delivering specialist biopsychosocial assessments and interventions for people with complex needs
• Supporting advance care planning, complex decision-making, impending loss and end-of-life conversations
• Providing specialist dementia and frailty advice to health and social care professionals
• Developing and delivering education that builds colleagues' confidence and capability
• Leading quality improvement, policy development and evaluation across dementia and frailty care
• Developing integrated pathways with health, social care and voluntary sector partners
• Leading and developing the Admiral Nurse service and using evidence, audit and data to drive improvement

About you
We're looking for an experienced Registered Nurse who combines specialist dementia knowledge with compassionate clinical leadership and the confidence to influence care beyond their own caseload.

To support your application, we strongly recommend completing the Dementia UK Pre-Admiral Nurse e-learning module. The link is available within the role's job description, found on our careers page.

Please note that our vacancies can close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. We therefore encourage early submission of your application.

Interviews
Interviews for this role will be aimed to be held early to mid-December.

Essential qualifications

• Registered Nurse (Adult, Mental Health or Learning Disability) with current NMC registration and significant post-registration experience supporting people with dementia and their families (including complex needs, frailty, palliative care or multiple long-term conditions)
• Evidence of continued professional development in dementia, frailty, palliative care or advanced practice
• Full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle

Desirable qualifications

• Relevant postgraduate qualification (e.g. Dementia care, frailty palliative care, advanced clinical practice)
• Independent Prescriber qualification, or willingness to work towards advanced clinical practice development

Essential experience

• Experience leading complex assessments, care planning and clinical decision-making
• Experience leading service improvement, quality improvement, practice development or change initiatives
• Experience providing clinical leadership and specialist advice to multidisciplinary teams or partner organisations
• Experience developing and delivering education, coaching or training
• Excellent partnership-working skills with the ability to influence across professional and organisational boundaries

Desirable experience

• Experience leading or managing staff, students, volunteers or clinical placements
• Experience representing services within system, regional or strategic partnership groups

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

For questions about the job, contact: Janet Walton, Community Matron, Janet.Walton@dorothyhouse-hospice.org.uk, 01225722988

Employer: Dorothy House Hospice
Reference number: WEBREC1000597
Date posted: 04 November 2026

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