Clinical Manager

Main duties of the job

• Lead on the operational management of the respite provision in accordance with regulatory CQC standards and the James Hopkins Trusts Vision, Mission and Values.
• Manage the Nursing Team ensuring positive relationships are developed and maintained with each other and the wider Charity team
• Ensure compliance and develop all relevant clinical, governance and regulatory systems and policies
• Work closely with our local health and care service providers including with NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board who directly commission our services
• Provide an environment of continuous quality improvement
• Attend relevant training and cascade as appropriate

We are proud to have been able to provide free nursing respite care to hundreds of life-limited and life-threatened young children and their families over the past 35 years.

Based in Barnwood, Gloucester, we are the only registered charity in Gloucestershire to provide this level of care, day and night, either in the family home or at Kites Corner, our multi-sensory respite centre and gardens.

About the role

• Lead on the operational management of the respite provision in accordance with regulatory CQC standards and the James Hopkins Trusts Vision, Mission and Values.
• Manage the Nursing Team ensuring positive relationships are developed and maintained with each other and the wider Charity team
• Ensure compliance and develop all relevant clinical, governance and regulatory systems and policies
• Work closely with our local health and care service providers including with NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board who directly commission our services
• Provide an environment of continuous quality improvement
• Attend relevant training and cascade as appropriate

Skills we require our Clinical Manager to possess:

• Have full NMC registration with appropriate nursing qualifications
• Previous clinical leadership experience
• Educated to degree or equivalent level of experience
• Professional knowledge of CQC requirement
• Be a Registered Manager with the Care Quality Commission or willingness to become one
• Good understanding of clinical governance
• Lead by example style to encourage a value driven culture that brings the best out of everyone
• Proactive and solution orientated approach to changing situations in a clinical environment
• Engaging communication skills and a friendly demeanour to successfully connect with a diverse team and patients
• Self-motivated and can work either independently or as a team player
• A caring, empathetic and resilient person with excellent interpersonal skills
• UK Driving licence

• Have full NMC registration with appropriate nursing qualifications
• Be a Registered Manager with the Care Quality Commission or willingness to become one

• Previous clinical leadership experience
• Educated to degree or equivalent level of experience
• Professional knowledge of CQC requirement
• Good understanding of clinical governance
• Lead by example style to encourage a value driven culture that brings the best out of everyone
• Proactive and solution orientated approach to changing situations in a clinical environment
• Engaging communication skills and a friendly demeanour to successfully connect with a diverse team and patients
• Self-motivated and can work either independently or as a team player
• A caring, empathetic and resilient person with excellent interpersonal skills
• UK Driving licence
• Experience in a paediatric setting.

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.

£43,000 to £47,000 a year Dependant on experience