Clinical Lead

Active Care Group; Dymchurch; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days + bank holidays

Birthday off

Training & development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Active Care Group is seeking a Clinical Lead - RGN for its Bethany Lodge/Bethany House services in Dymchurch, Kent. The role requires 37.5 hours, on-call duties, and on-going clinical leadership across nursing teams.

You will ensure high standards of care, governance, and patient safety, while leading staff and collaborating with clinical colleagues to deliver exceptional outcomes for residents.

Qualifications

• RN1 is required: Registered Adult Nurse, Level 1 on the NMC register.
• Legal right to work in the UK is required.
• Strong clinical knowledge and governance understanding.
• Excellent time management and workload planning.
• Proven leadership and ability to influence teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead nursing care delivery for the designated area as set out in the performance contract.
• Hold service nursing teams to objectives and ensure standards are maintained.
• Ensure safe medication practice and compliance with policy and regulation.
• Lead infection prevention and control initiatives and challenge poor practice.
• Respond to complaints and incidents and drive continuous improvement.
• Represent the service in local/national forums and collaborate with clinical teams daily.
• Monitor risk and ensure appropriate nursing skill mix for activity and acuity.

Skills

RN1: Registered Nurse

UK right to work

Clinical governance

Time management

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Job description

Come and join one of the UK’s largest providers in complex care. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

We'd like you to join us as a Clinical Lead - RGN at our Bethany Lodge/ Bethany House services, in Dymchurch Kent.

At Bethany Lodge, we provide support for young adults with a disability in a residential home, helping to promote independence and maintain a high standard of both physical and mental wellbeing. We’re committed to helping every person we support feel safe, happy, empowered enabling them to live the best life possible.

At Bethany House, we provide specialised care for young adults with physical disabilities. At Bethany House, we treat each resident as an individual, listening to their wants and needs so we can tailor a package of care alongside a warm and nurturing environment which reflects our residents wishes.

What you'll be working:

37.5 Hours

Rota'd On Call and "Out of Hours" visits

What you'll be doing:

• Manage the delivery of all nursing aspects of the agreed outputs for their area of responsibility, as set out in their performance contract.
• Holding service nursing accountable for delivering their objectives in the clinical area.
• Ensuring effective action is taken where nursing performance risks falling below expected levels and standards are not maintained.
• Implementing Active Care Group (ACG) nursing priorities locally.
• Ensure patients are cared for in a clean and safe environment, taking remedial action if standards are not maintained.
• Championing the infection prevention and control agenda, challenging poor practice.
• Ensure compliance with the safe ordering, storing, administration and disposal of medicines in accordance with policy, legal and regulation requirements.
• Responding to complaints and adverse incidents.
• Be a visible leader, accessible to patients, carers, and staff.
• Provide professional and clinical leadership.
• Develop the specialist contribution nursing can make within the service.
• Develop nursing care leadership and management.
• Represent ACG at local and national forums, promoting achievements in patient care.
• Collaborate with clinical teams daily.
• Monitor and action decisions in relation to clinical areas, ensuring an appropriate nursing skill mix in relation to activity and acuity.
• Manage and report any risk issues to the Registered Manager.
• Performance manage staff with direct responsibility for continuous performance review/appraisal.
• Manage staff absence and report trends in sickness absence to the Registered Manager.

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and duties may be altered from time to time in light of changing circumstances.

“At Active Care Group we want everyone to feel welcome and supported. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment or interview process, just let us know and we’d be very happy to discuss this with you.”

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.

What you'll have:

• RN1: Registered Adult Nurse, Level 1, part of the NMC register.
• A legal right to work in the U.K.
• Ability to demonstrate clinical and professional knowledge.
• Can manage own workload with excellent time management skills
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively manage resources.
• Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance.
• Commitment to improving patient services through a sustained focus on achieving demanding goals.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including good listening skills.
• High level of work organization, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude.
• Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty, and integrity in undertaking the role.
• Well-developed leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to enthuse, motivate, and involve individuals and teams, aligning them with the Trust’s and your performance expectations.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Paid NMC Renewal
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials - like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 for Nurses, Therapists & Doctors, £500 all other roles, by recommending someone you know
• and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group