Dementia Lead (RGN)

Job summary

Dementia Lead – Permanent

40 hours per week

KYN BICKLEY, Bickley Park Rd, Bromley BR1 2AZ

About KYN

KYN is a brand-new care home company focused on offering an elevated approach to care: Individualised journeys built around the needs and interests of our residents in beautiful surroundings with life-enriching practices.

KYN BICKLEY was our first care, which opened in February 2023. Located in Bromley, KYN BICKLEY is an 86-bedroom home offering each resident an elegant and comfortable bedroom, communal areas for dining and reclining, and inviting outdoor terraces overlooking landscaped gardens bordered by woodland. We have a further home in Fulham and three care homes under development in London.

We are passionate about our people; we seek out those who have a true vocation for care or hospitality and hold integrity dear to their hearts.

About the opportunity:

As a Dementia Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Lead person-centred dementia care across the home, ensuring support reflects each resident’s needs, history and abilities.
• Promote meaningful engagement, therapeutic activities and least-restrictive, non-medication strategies to reduce distress.
• Ensure strong compliance with the Mental Capacity Act and DoLS.
• Support staff to complete mental capacity assessments and best?interest decisions, ensuring documentation is lawful and accurate.
• Champion resident autonomy, choice and involvement in care.
• Oversee high-quality dementia care plans that are personalised and strengths-based.
• Support life histories, communication profiles and behaviour support plans.
• Audit dementia documentation and drive continuous improvement aligned with best practice.
• Provide training, coaching and day-to-day guidance to staff.
• Build confidence in communication, behaviour support and person-centred approaches.
• Encourage reflective practice and a deeper understanding of dementia.
• Support families to understand dementia and involve them in care decisions.
• Work collaboratively with external health and dementia professionals, including memory services and community mental health teams.
• Promote dignity, rights and emotional well-being for residents living with dementia.
• Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns promptly.
• Help minimise distress, restrictive practices and avoidable hospital admissions.
• Acting as a brand ambassador who demonstrates and leads the KYN values

About you:

• ·Registered Nurse with active NMC PIN
• Experience working with people living with dementia in a care setting
• Strong knowledge of person-centred dementia care
• Good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and best interest decision-making
• Experience developing or reviewing care plans
• Ability to educate and support staff practice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

About our commitment to you:

• Competitive salary and benefits
• 28 days of annual leave, including bank holidays
• NMC revalidation cost covered, including CPD modules from RCNi
• Bespoke company induction and ongoing training programmes at all levels
• Access to the best-in-class equipment and technology
• Custom-made uniforms provided
• Complimentary meals, hot drinks, and snacks throughout your shift
• Employee assistance programme and other attractive wellbeing benefits
• Discount schemes
• Company contributory pension scheme & life insurance
• And much more……

KYN is an equal opportunity employer.

To be considered for this role, you will have to provide proof of right to work in the UK and consent to an enhanced DBS check.