Regional Quality Nurse - Elevate Elder Care Yorkshire

Leaders in Care; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Leaders in Care is seeking an experienced Regional Quality Nurse to drive clinical quality, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement across Yorkshire's elderly care homes. This hybrid, full-time role partners with Home Managers and senior teams to deliver practical, resident-centered improvements.

You will hold current NMC registration with substantial post-registration experience and bring governance, auditing, CQC knowledge and strong coaching skills to bear on service improvement and

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration and substantial post-registration experience.
• Experience of clinical governance, quality assurance, auditing and service improvement.
• Strong understanding of CQC requirements and how to support services through inspections.
• Sound clinical knowledge across elderly care, safeguarding, medicines management and infection prevention and control.
• Ability to interpret quality and clinical data, identify themes and communicate recommendations clearly.
• Excellent coaching, communication and influencing skills.
• Confidence working with Home Managers and senior teams to deliver improvement plans.
• Strong written skills, including audit reports, action plans and quality updates.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out planned and responsive quality audits across care homes.
• Reviewing care plans, risk assessments, medication practices and clinical documentation.
• Identifying areas of risk, analysing trends and producing clear, practical recommendations.
• Supporting Home Managers to develop, implement and monitor improvement action plans.
• Providing clinical guidance and hands-on coaching to managers and care teams.
• Supporting services before, during and following regulatory inspections, including CQC.
• Promoting best practice in medication management, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, dementia care and the management of long-term conditions.
• Delivering training and contributing to the development of policies, procedures and clinical standards.
• Building positive relationships with operational teams, residents, relatives and external professionals.
• Using quality data and audit outcomes to drive sustainable improvement and positive resident outcomes.

Skills

NMC registration

Clinical governance

Auditing

Communication

Coaching

Influencing

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Education

NMC registered nurse

Tools

Microsoft Office

Digital care planning systems

Job description

Leaders in Care is seeking an experienced Regional Quality Nurse to drive clinical quality, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement across Yorkshire's elderly care homes. This hybrid, full-time role partners with Home Managers and senior teams to deliver practical, resident-centered improvements.

You will hold current NMC registration with substantial post-registration experience and bring governance, auditing, CQC knowledge and strong coaching skills to bear on service improvement and