Peripatetic Care Home Clinical Lead

NHS; Bath; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Peripatetic Care Home Clinical Lead. This rewarding role involves traveling across care homes to enhance clinical skills and ensure high-quality care. You'll leverage your compassion and expertise to implement safeguarding policies, oversee care plans, and make critical clinical decisions. This position offers the autonomy to inspire and mentor your team, ensuring they remain updated with the latest developments. Join a supportive organization that values person-centered care and provides an empowering environment for both staff and residents alike.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday, retail, and leisure discounts

Nurse Mentor bonus scheme

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Skilled Worker visa application fee support

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Nurse with current NMC registration and mentoring qualifications.
• Experience in gerontology and clinical policy frameworks is essential.

Responsibilities

• Travel across regions to develop clinical skills in care homes.
• Implement safeguarding policies and oversee care plan creation.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to keep the team updated.

Skills

Clinical Care

Project Management

Coaching

Mentoring

Compassionate Care

Critical Clinical Decisions

Education

Registered Nurse (RGN/RMN)

Teaching/Mentoring Qualification

Experience in Gerontology

Job description

As a Peripatetic Care Home Clinical Lead at Barchester, you'll travel across your region to develop the clinical skills in various care homes, to help deliver high-quality care and service. You'll use your compassion and experience to provide clinical care, implement safeguarding policies, and oversee the creation of care plans. This role involves critical clinical decisions, project management, and updating the team on the latest developments through coaching, training, and mentoring.

Main duties of the job

As a Peripatetic Care Home Clinical Lead, you'll be responsible for travelling across your region to develop the clinical skills in various care homes, helping Barchester Healthcare deliver the high-quality care and service they're known for. Working closely with the General Manager or hiring manager, you'll help implement action plans that ensure the residents' needs are met. You'll use your compassion and experience to help deliver clinical care to the high standards Barchester is known for, making sure their care is in line with all regulations. This includes implementing safeguarding policies and overseeing the creation of care plans. In this role, you'll use your professional judgment to make critical clinical decisions, manage projects, and evolve care levels to ensure every resident's needs are met. You'll also be responsible for providing coaching, training, and mentoring to the team to keep them updated with the latest clinical developments and engage and inspire them.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care and support services in the UK. They operate a network of care homes and independent living facilities, each with a strong focus on person-centred care and a commitment to supporting their residents' wellbeing. Barchester is known for its dedication to delivering the highest standards of care and for creating a positive and empowering work environment for its employees.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Peripatetic Care Home Clinical Lead at Barchester, you'll travel across your region to develop the clinical skills in various care homes, to help us deliver the high quality care and service we're known for. Working closely with the General Manager or hiring manager, you'll help implement action plans that make sure our resident's needs are met.

You'll use your compassion and experience to help deliver clinical care to the high standards we're known for. We'll look to you to make sure our care is in line with all regulations by doing everything from implementing our rigorous safeguarding policies to overseeing the creation of care plans. This is a role that will see you using your professional judgement to make critical clinical decisions, manage projects and evolve care levels to make sure every residents' needs are met. As part of your wide range of responsibilities, you'll make sure our team is updated with the latest clinical developments by providing coaching, training and mentoring that will engage and inspire them. As a Peripatetic Care Home Clinical Lead, you'll have the freedom and autonomy to do things the right way and be truly valued and respected for what you do.

ABOUT YOU

As Peripatetic Care Home Clinical Lead, you'll need to be a Registered Nurse (RGN/RMN) with current NMC registration and a teaching, mentoring or supervision qualification. Experience of gerontology is important too, as well as a strong awareness of both clinical policy frameworks and Royal Pharmaceutical guidelines. Dedicated and motivational, you'll enjoy sharing your knowledge with others, which you'll have demonstrated through successful clinical mentorship and performance management. Finally, like us, you'll pride yourself on your person-centred and compassionate approach to nursing.

REWARDS PACKAGE

As well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:

• Free learning and development
• Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme
• A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts
• Nurse Mentor and Refer a Friend bonus schemes
• Offer to pay Skilled Worker visa application fee for eligible nurses

If you'd like to use your clinical and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding and empowering place to be.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• As a Peripatetic Care Home Clinical Lead, you'll need to be a Registered Nurse (RGN/RMN) with current NMC registration and a teaching, mentoring, or supervision qualification. Experience of gerontology is important, as well as a strong awareness of both clinical policy frameworks and Royal Pharmaceutical guidelines. You'll also need to be dedicated, motivational, and have a person-centred and compassionate approach to nursing.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.