Dementia Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Dementia Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join the Harm free Care Cambridge University Hospitals. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and deliver high quality, person centred care for patients living with dementia across our hospital.

As a Dementia CNS, you will act as an expert resource for clinical teams, patients, and families, ensuring best practice in dementia care is embedded throughout the organisation. You will provide specialist assessment, advice, and support, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to improve patient experience and outcomes.

You will play a key role in:

• Leading on dementia care initiatives and quality improvement projects.
• Providing education and training to staff to enhance dementia awareness and skills.
• Driving compliance with national dementia standards and local policies.
• Acting as an advocate for patients and carers, ensuring dignity and respect are maintained.

This role requires excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills, with the ability to influence practice and deliver change. You will have a strong clinical background in dementia care, ideally with experience in an acute hospital setting.

An informal visit is strongly recommended.

Main duties of the job

The Band 7 Dementia Specialist Nurse provides expert clinical care and strategic leadership for patients with dementia and delirium at CUH. The role focuses on delivering person centred care, implementing the CUH Dementia Strategy, monitoring KPIs, and ensuring compliance with national standards.

Key responsibilities include supporting staff education, coordinating Enhanced Care Teams, engaging carers, and using data to drive quality improvement.

This position combines clinical expertise with leadership to enhance patient safety and experience.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 31 May 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 15 June 2026

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.