Job Overview
The Role:
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.
This is a management role, working 42 hours a week based in Bolton. 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.
Introduction:
You'll lead the clinical team, working with Nurses to drive forward the clinical excellence in the home, engaging with external agencies as and when required to ensure the best possible care for our residents. You'll be responsible for the clinical governance, undertaking audits supported by Clinical and Quality Managers. In addition, you'll have a key role in the development of your nurse team.
About you:
You'll have excellent clinical skills with sound judgement and great communication, able to lead with a "can-do" attitude.
You'll be a team player, with attention to detail and a sense of fun. You'll inspire, motivate and manage our talented team, happily taking the lead to manage everyday tasks in the absence of the Home Manager. 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.
As well as being RMN qualified, 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.
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.
You're personable and enjoy all aspects of nursing, with a positive outlook on the future of care.
About Next Steps:
Next Steps provides care and treatment for adults, aged 18-65 years, suffering from a wide range of mental health disorders. We are part of Tristone Healthcare and provide gender specific services within Greater Manchester.
Next Steps offers mental health support and rehabilitation services in communities across North, Central, and South Manchester, as well as Bolton. 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 serve people with the most complex and challenging needs in the area. Next Steps currently offers thirty-six beds over six locations, with two new services currently being commissioned.
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.
Benefits:
We offer a unique, comprehensive package of benefits to employees and their families. This includes:
- Medicash benefits include additional perks and financial help with health-related costs such as: optical, dental, specialist consultations and diagnostic tests, complementary therapies, alternative therapies, prescriptions, inoculations & flu jabs, chiropody, health screening, stress support, virtual GP, gym discounts
- Life Assurance/ Critical Illness Insurance
- Discretionary Bonus scheme
