Clinical Lead

Job summary

Rusthall Lodge registered with CQC can accommodate a maximum of 69 Residents.

 The Care Home is located in Rusthall and is a not-for-profit Care Home with a legacy spanning over 50 years.

This is a new post offering an exciting opportunity to use your nursing leadership skills to make a real difference for our Residents every day.

Purpose

The Clinical Lead is responsible for overseeing the safe delivery of nursing care and ensuring that the Registered ’s clinical/care performance fulfils the required fundamental standards. The appointed person will adopt a ‘hands on’ approach, working with and taking responsibility for the Nursing and Health Care Assistant teams and applying the highest standards of modern and professional practice. They will ensure that the Care Homes policies and procedures are followed, along with the relevant legislation, to fulfil Residents’ individual needs.

What the role involves

The Clinical Lead has full responsibility for the overall safety of all Residents and supports the Registered Manager in facilitating the smooth running of the Care Home. You will also take overall responsibility for managing the Care Home in the absence of the Registered Manager.

A Clinical Manager’s shift often starts early in preparation for the busy day ahead. The first task may be to do a ‘quality walk’ on all the floors, talking to night staff about what has happened during the night. They will later attend the Nurses’ handover meeting and ensure that Nurses and Health Care Assistant Teams all know what is scheduled to happen that day.

Because quality assurance is a crucial aspect of a Clinical Lead’s role, they will spend time each day auditing various aspects of care delivery to identify errors and areas for improvement, developing action plans to rectify and problem areas. This may include reviewing the effectiveness of care plans or checking that medication is administered and stored safely. The Unit Clinical Manager also conducts pre-admission assessments to evaluate potential Residents’ needs and ensure that the Care Home can meet these fully and safely.

Another core responsibility is to provide leadership and support to the Nursing team. The Clinical Lead works closely with nursing team to ensure that care aligns with residents’ needs. This involves offering guidance and addressing any challenges. The Clinical Lead conducts supervision and appraisals, overseeing staff rotas to ensure adequate coverage and assisting with recruitment and onboarding processes. They also help ensure that staff have the relevant skills and training to provide safe and effective care.

About The Role

Your focus as Clincal Lead will be to support the Care Management Team to deliver high quality care with a difference by providing a safe, caring, innovative, open, supportive and inclusive environment for Residents, visitors and staff.

Other responsibilities will include:

 • Leading a team of Nurses, Team Leaders and Health Care Assistants to provide staff support, including demonstrations and instruction of care activities.

 • Enhancing and promoting the Resident's quality of life through effective care planning

.• An enthusiastic approach to encouraging and motivating people

 • The ability to work confidently using your own initiative

Working Partnerships

In today’s Care Home environment developing and maintaining working relationships is important

Examples being

• Care Homes Manager, Registered Manager, Senior Leadership Team,

• HR, Payroll, Standards and Performance, Estates and Facilities, Finance, IT,

• Fundraising, Learning and Development, Marketing, Media Channels Communications Teams,

• Residents, their Relatives/Representatives, and Advocates

• Care sector/ providers, NHS Digital etc, Local Authorities, Adult Safeguarding Teams and IHB’s

• Regulatory bodies, including the Care Quality Commission

• Consultants and Contractors

• Financial Supporters

• IT Support Provider About You To apply for this role, you must have a first-level nursing registration with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN. As this is a management role, you should ideally have post-registration and management or supervisory experience and/or training or qualifications. Moreover

• The ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.

• Have a good standard of digital skills and familiar with paperless Care Planning, Risk Assessments and Medication Administration.

• To have an enquiring nature and the ability to think out of the book Notes:

• The position is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check

• The job description/summary is not an exhaustive statement of the scope of the job and the post holder may be required to undertake any other duties commensurate with the position.

• The job description will be reviewed with the post holder on a regular basis.

• Reporting organisational relationships may be subject to change.

• Individual objectives will be set up and agreed between the post holder and the Registered Manager

About You

To apply for this role, you must have a first-level nursing registration with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN.

As this is a management role, you should ideally have post-registration and management or supervisory experience and/or training or qualifications.

Moreover

 • The ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.

• Have a good standard of digital skills and familiar with paperless Care Planning, Risk Assessments and Medication Administration.