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Kingsley Healthcare; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Kingsley Healthcare is seeking a Deputy Manager (Clinical) in Ipswich to support the Home Manager in delivering safe, compassionate nursing care that aligns with regulatory standards.

You will provide clinical leadership, oversee governance, mentor nursing staff and ensure thorough care planning, documentation, and collaboration with families and external bodies.

Qualifications

• Must be an NMC registered nurse with relevant experience.
• Experience as Deputy Home Manager preferred.
• Ability to engage with service users to understand their needs.
• Good working knowledge of CQC standards.
• Ability to liaise with families, external professionals and staff to promote quality care.
• Promote ownership of care programs involving residents and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to care and nursing teams.
• Assume responsibility for clinical governance and home running in the absence of the Home Manager.
• Mentor and supervise nurses and care staff; conduct clinical audits.
• Oversee medication management and ensure accurate documentation.
• Carry out pre-admission and ongoing risk assessments; update care plans.
• Maintain liaison with healthcare professionals, families and external agencies.

Skills

Deputy Home Manager experience

People engagement

Safeguarding pathways

CQC standards

Stakeholder relations

Care program ownership

Education

NMC registered nurse with relevant experience

Job description

As our Deputy Manager (Clinical), you will play a key role in supporting the Home Manager to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and compassionate nursing care in line with regulatory standards and best practice. You will provide clinical leadership to the care and nursing teams, ensuring that residents receive person-centred care that promotes dignity, choice, and wellbeing.

You will take responsibility for the clinical governance and the running of the service of the home in the absence of the Home Manager, ensuring care delivery meets CQC requirements and aligns with company policies and procedures. Your role will include mentoring and supervising nurses and care staff, conducting clinical audits, reviewing and updating care plans, overseeing medication management, and ensuring accurate documentation and record keeping.

You will also support with pre-admission assessments, risk assessments, and ongoing evaluations of residents’ needs, maintaining close liaison with healthcare professionals, residents’ families, and external agencies to ensure continuity and quality of care and other aspects of running the home.

Reports to: Home Manager

Skills and attributes

• Previous Deputy Home Manager experience.
• The ability to engage with the service users to understand their needs in order to provide excellent services of care.
• Ability to identify referral pathway for safeguarding adult/abuse.
• Good working knowledge of CQC standards.
• The ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with external care professionals, families, visitors and staffing team.
• Ability to promote ownership of care programs by fully involving service users and their families in developing, agreeing and evaluating care programs within the home.

Education and qualification

• - NMC registered nurse with relevant experience - essential.

What will you gain?

You will have the satisfaction of working with and being supported by an enthusiastic and caring team that puts people at the heart of the business. We know the happiness of our staff improves the service we give our residents. You will have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop your skills, and we have the procedures and processes in place to help you at every step.