Job Overview

Next Steps Nursing Home is looking for an enthusiastic and highly-motivated individual with proven clinical and managerial experience as a Deputy Home Manager / Clinical Lead Nurse or Charge nurse, to motivate, inspire, and lead the unit team in achieving high standards and promoting resident safety.

Next Steps offers mental health support and rehabilitation in communities in North, Central, and South Manchester and Bolton. We have a portfolio of services and are a new and expanding company in the healthcare sector. Our priority is ensuring our residents are looked after using the needs specific "right care in the right area" model of community inclusion. Our units run as small therapeutic communities and we service people with the most complex and challenging needs in the area. Next Steps currently offer thirty-six beds over six locations, with two new services currently being commissioned. Our services are both gender specific and mixed gender environments to ensure we are able to meet every persons needs in the safest and most appropriate way possible. We accept referrals from Manchester and have contracts as far afield as Dorset.

​The Organisation pay NHS equivalent salaries, annual pay increases, paid breaks, Christmas bonus schemes, Medicash benefits, operate a social calendar and an annual conference. We support training opportunities and we are a teaching area for Manchester University School of Nursing and Manchester Medical School.

Next Steps Nursing Home, is registered for 6 service users to provide nursing care for Working Age Adults, located in Central Manchester. We provide long term care, for service users with a wide range of Mental Health challenges.

This is a management role, working 42 hours a week. The Clinical Lead Nurse will work full-time and will be responsible for the delivery of care in the Home. Reporting to the Registered Manager, you will work closely with the nursing and care team to ensure the highest standards of care are delivered.

You will be responsible for the clinical compliance of the Home as well as the overall performance of team members. You will be responsible for the line management and supervision of all the registered nurses and healthcare assistants. They must be a good and effective communicator and demonstrate problem solving skills with the ability to work under pressure to manage staff and deliver patient focused care to a high standard of care in a safe, compassionate, responsive, effective and well led environment.

You must demonstrate knowledge and skills in caring for adults with severe and enduring mental illness and who may demonstrate behaviours that challenge, ensuring that both their mental and physical health needs are met. You must be able to ensure that the nursing and healthcare staff in the home are providing care to the expected standards while ensuring an understanding a knowledge of all the relevant polices and regulations within this role.

As well as being RMN qualified, with a current PIN, you will have substantial experience gained managing individuals with complex needs and a significant understanding of Mental Health issues . You are outcome driven and able to lead by example using your firm but inclusive management style. You're open and encouraging too and have lots of tact and diplomacy. What's more, you're great at managing conflicting priorities on time, have a flexible attitude to working hours and are willing to participate in on call arrangements. And, if you have experience of carrying out investigations, writing reports/recommendations or managing budgets, even better, although this is not essential.

Candidate requirements:

• An experienced and credible clinician who can deliver person-centred services to meet the identified needs of residents
• An experienced manager with leadership skills to engage and motivate others, to deliver exceptional care
• A Registered Nurse ( RMN) with a valid NMC pin number
• Working knowledge of the CQC standards
• Depth of Knowledge of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding
• Must have previous experience working in a social care setting, supporting individuals with diverse and complex needs.

We welcome informal enquiries by phone (01613934280) or in person if you would like to come and visit before applying for a role. You may also apply by application form and CV.