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Palliative Care Dementia Nurse Specialist

Job details
Posting date: 22 May 2025
Salary: £54,320.00 to £60,981.00 per year
Additional salary information: £54320.00 - £60981.00 a year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 05 June 2025
Location: London, SW4 0RN
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: B0132-22052025

Summary

The role of the Palliative Care Dementia Nurse Specialist (PCDNS) is to enable more people living with dementia to access and benefit from specialist palliative care services. The Palliative Care Dementia Nurse Specialist will: Support people with dementia (and their professional or informal carers, friends and family) to engage in ACP e.g. Identification of what is most important to patients at the end of their lives, a Ceiling of Treatment, and preferred place of care and death. Assess the end of life care needs of patients with advanced dementia and their families including their physical, behavioural, psychological, social and spiritual needs. Work alongside colleagues at Royal Trinity Hospice and other community health and social care agencies to co-ordinate and manage end of life care for patients referred with dementia.