Clinical Care Lead

Alex Wood House Care Home; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bank holiday enhancements

28 days holiday

Blue Light Card

DBS renewals

NMC renewals

Refer a friend

Job summary

Alex Wood House Care Home in Cambridge is seeking a Clinical Care Lead to oversee the clinical team, uphold relationship-centred and dementia care, and drive governance across the home.

You will lead care delivery, mentor staff, and ensure outstanding standards. Requires RN/RGN/RMN registration with at least two years of leadership experience; dementia experience is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Qualified RN/RGN/RMN with current registration.
• Minimum of two years' shift leadership and management experience.
• Extensive dementia care experience; dementia qualification advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for clinical care in the home.
• Lead care delivery in the home, ensuring continuous assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of residents' care.
• Lead, coach, support and inspire the clinical team to deliver outcomes for the home.
• Ensure an outstanding level of relationship-centred care, dementia care and clinical care within the home.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Dementia care experience

Team empowerment

Education

RN/RGN/RMN

Job description

The Clinical Care Lead will lead the clinical team on providing strong clinical knowledge, leadership and management to ensure the highest standards are achieved in all areas of the home including relationship centred care, clinical care and dementia care.,

• Overall responsibility for clinical care in the home.
• Lead care delivery in the home, to ensure continuous assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of residents' care.
• Lead, coach, support and inspire the clinical team to deliver outcomes for the home.
• Ensure that an outstanding level of relationship centred care, dementia care and clinical care is being delivered within the home. Qualified RN/RGN/RMN.
• Minimum of two years' shift leadership and management experience.
• Has extensive experience working with those living with dementia, and a dementia qualification is highly advantageous.
• Proven track record leading, empowering, supporting and motivating a clinical team. As a Clinical Care Lead at Alex Wood Care Home, you will be responsible for ensuring a high level of clinical care and governance is provided to our residents.

About Alex Wood House Care Home:

Alex Wood House is an exceptional residential care home in Cambridge. At Alex Wood House we pride ourselves on our family-feel, attractive gardens and providing outstanding care to each of our residents. We're based in a quiet nook in Arbury on the north eastern side of Cambridge, three miles from the city centre. Our home offers 24-hour residential care and 36 en-suite bedrooms.

• Competitive salary, plus enhancements on bank holidays.
• 28 days of holiday per year.
• Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
• Paid DBS and NMC renewals.
• Refer a friend scheme.

About Athena:

Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk). We want to be the first choice for high quality residential, nursing and dementia care, leaving a positive legacy within our communities. Our care homes are managed by amazing and passionate people, including strong leadership by our home managers with dedicated care, clinical, hospitality and activities teams to provide exceptional care and experience, achieving brilliant outcomes for people in our care. We hold our values close to our hearts and ensure that team members throughout each of our residential and nursing homes understand them and what importance they hold. We approach everything we do with thought, and we deliver with passion.