Clinical Lead RN – Complex Care (37.5h, On‑Call)

Active Care Group; Aylesford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days + bank holidays

Birthday off

Training & development opportunities

Nest Pension

NMC Renewal paid

Job summary

Active Care Group in Kent is seeking a Clinical Lead - RGN to oversee nursing delivery at Bethany Lodge and Bethany House. You will be a visible professional leader, ensuring safe, high‑quality care and robust clinical governance for residents and staff.

This 37.5‑hour role includes on‑call and out‑of‑hours visits, infection prevention, medicines management, and collaboration with clinical teams to continually improve patient outcomes in a residential setting.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Education

RN1: Registered Adult Nurse, Level 1, NMC register

Job description

Active Care Group in Kent is seeking a Clinical Lead - RGN to oversee nursing delivery at Bethany Lodge and Bethany House. You will be a visible professional leader, ensuring safe, high‑quality care and robust clinical governance for residents and staff.

This 37.5‑hour role includes on‑call and out‑of‑hours visits, infection prevention, medicines management, and collaboration with clinical teams to continually improve patient outcomes in a residential setting.