Clinical Care Lead

Athena Care Homes; Peacehaven; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run care home provider in England seeks a Clinical Care Lead to guide the clinical team in delivering exceptional standards of care, focusing on relationship-centred and dementia care. The ideal candidate will possess leadership experience, a nursing qualification, and a track record in clinical management. This role offers a competitive hourly wage and comprehensive benefits including holiday and training opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary with enhancements

28 days of holiday per year

Free Blue Light Card

Paid DBS and NMC renewals

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years’ shift leadership and management experience.
• Extensive experience working with those living with dementia; a dementia qualification is highly advantageous.
• Proven track record leading, empowering, supporting, and motivating a clinical team.

Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for clinical care in the home.
• Lead care delivery, ensuring continuous assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of residents’ care.
• Ensure outstanding levels of relationship-centred care, dementia care, and clinical care.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical knowledge

Empowerment

Support and motivation

Education

Qualified RN/RGN/RMN

Job description

About Avocet Court Care Home:

Situated in a residential nook in Ipswich, our 115‑bedroom Avocet Court Care Home is surrounded by beautiful gardens. As one of the top residential care homes, we provide exceptional standards of care.

We’re proud to have an award‑winning activities team and a newly refurbished café that is the heart of our home. We also have fantastic sustainability credentials, including solar panels and green initiatives to minimise our environmental impact.

About the role:

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.

Salary: £24.27 per hour

Shift Pattern: 40 hours per week. 12‑hour shifts worked on a rota basis from Monday to Sunday.

Home Location: Monmouth Close, Ipswich, England, IP2 8RS.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• 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.

Training, Skills & Experience Required:

• 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.

What we can offer:

• Fully comprehensive induction.
• Competitive salary, plus enhancements on bank holidays and a welcome bonus.
• 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.