Clinical Lead Nurse - Full-time Hours

St Annes Community Services; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and social care organization in Huddersfield is seeking Clinical Lead Nurses to support managers in delivering high-quality care. The role involves ensuring clinical needs are effectively assessed and managed, leading staff development, and maintaining service quality. Ideal candidates will have a nursing registration and experience in a care environment, with opportunities for ongoing training and career advancement. This position offers 20 to 25 days of annual leave, staff benefits, and flexible working opportunities.

Benefits

20 to 25 days annual leave

24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme

Continuous training opportunities

Cycle To Work scheme

Refer A Friend initiative

Flexible working opportunities

Group Personal Pension Scheme

Discounted income protection

Free car parking

Free life assurance cover

Qualifications

• Nurse registration required.
• Experience in nursing, especially in a care home setting.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Support the manager in recruitment and development of staff.
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
• Lead clinical supervision of staff.
• Monitor quality of service provision.

Job description

Our Oxfield Court and Smithies Moor Lane services are looking for two Clinical Lead Nurses to support the managers. They will ensure all clinical needs of clients are appropriately assessed and plans of care and support are developed and implemented, effectively meeting stated needs with the overall objective of maintaining the wellbeing of clients. This will be undertaken within the context of best current thinking and practice.

Oxfield Court is a nursing home and respite service and is a 28‑bed service across 5 bungalows based in Huddersfield. We support clients with complex medical needs, behaviours that challenge and specialise in End‑of‑Life care for people with Learning Disabilities. All care is person centred, developing lasting relationships with families and external multi‑disciplinary professionals to deliver outstanding care.

Smithies Moor Lane is a 6‑bed nursing home set in a quiet residential area in Batley, benefiting from a very regular bus service to nearby districts. It looks after adults with learning and physical disabilities, some of whom present challenging behaviours. Our clients enjoy living their best life, and our talented and caring team supports them accordingly.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the manager in ensuring that all staff employed within your service are recruited, developed, supported and managed in an appropriate and professional manner with specific responsibility around the management of clinical needs of clients.
• Responsible, with your manager, in addressing the training and development needs of staff and ensuring that they are pertinent to the stated clinical needs of clients within the service.
• Responsible, with your manager, for addressing your own personal development and training needs based on service objectives and philosophy.
• Responsible for supporting the manager in maintaining the quality of the service provided within your defined service with specific responsibility around the ongoing monitoring of support plans and positive risk assessments for relevance, effectiveness and overall quality.
• Responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that you and staff within your service comply with St. Anne's values and beliefs, policies and procedures.
• Responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that your service(s) have access to, and use, the best current thinking and practice in the delivery of those services.
• Responsible to undertake (with the manager) a lead role in the clinical supervision of staff with reference to Skills for Care code of conduct for Health and Social care workers and with the overall objective of maintaining quality of service provision.
• Supporting and assessing Specialist Support Workers in the completion of the Level 3 Mental health Certificate.
• Responsibility to contribute to the successful future development of St. Anne's by highlighting opportunities within the broad corporate aims of the organisation, including contributions to policy and procedures and to service developments.
• Responsibility for supporting your manager in monitoring your service(s) in such a way that it is compliant with the expectations and statutory requirements set by local commissioning agreements and regulators of services.
• Responsibility for supporting your manager in establishing and maintaining effective links within your teams, with other organisations, and agencies or workers whose role(s) may impact upon your service area.
• Responsibility for supporting your manager in ensuring that staff respect the rights of clients with whom they work and for providing a healthy, safe and stimulating environment for both clients and staff.
• Responsibility for any specific roles and duties within the home as agreed with the manager, ensuring supervisions are carried out, documentation is up to date and always reviewed when health needs change. Liaise with multidisciplinary teams and relatives to keep everyone updated, cover shifts, manage nurses' monthly reviews, daily checks and monthly checks, maintain timesheets, conduct audits (infection prevention control, medication, health and safety, risk assessments, care documentation).
• Responsible for ensuring that, as an individual, and as part of a team, resources are used appropriately and that all necessary steps are taken to avoid fuel and energy waste.
• Responsible for maximising opportunities for client participation.
• Assessing and mentoring student nurses on placement within the service.

Benefits

• Rising 20 to 25 days plus statutory bank holidays
• 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme
• Continuous opportunities for ongoing training and career development
• Cycle To Work scheme
• Refer A Friend recruitment initiative
• Flexible working opportunities (where applicable) upon successful completion of probation period
• Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Discounted income protection scheme
• Free car parking at most services
• Free life assurance cover