Regional Clinical Manager

Athena Care Homes (UK) Ltd; Remote; GBP 40,000 - GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run care provider in the UK is seeking a Regional Clinical Manager to deliver high-quality clinical leadership across their seven homes. The role involves supporting Home Managers, leading audits, and ensuring compliance with care standards. The ideal candidate will be a passionate NMC Registered Nurse with experience in senior care roles and a strong background in quality management. This position offers competitive salary and substantial development opportunities, creating a meaningful impact on residents' lives.

Benefits

33 days of holiday per year

Free Blue Light Card

Refer a friend scheme

Competitive salary with development opportunities

Qualifications

• Genuinely caring individual focused on resident needs.
• Experience in a senior care position desirable.
• Background in audits and quality management.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and support to Home Managers.
• Lead clinical audits and governance activities.
• Identify improvement opportunities in clinical practice.

Skills

Passion for care

Leadership

Quality management

Team motivation

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Job description

Overview

At Athena Care Homes, we believe in creating meaningful moments every day for our residents, their families and our teams. We are looking for an experienced and compassionate Regional Clinical Manager to join our leadership team and help us continue delivering outstanding, relationship-centred care across our homes.

This is a highly visible and influential role, providing expert clinical leadership, guidance and assurance to our Home Managers and Clinical Care Managers, and ensuring our residents receive the very best care, every day.

About the role

As Regional Clinical Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and strengthening clinical practice and governance across your region. Working in partnership with operational leaders, you will support, coach and inspire clinical teams to deliver safe, effective, person-centred and dementia-informed care that meets and exceeds regulatory and professional standards, including CQC KLOEs.

You will lead quality assurance activity, support learning from audits and governance processes, and help embed a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and compassion across our homes.

Shift Pattern

37.5 hours per week, with 1-in-6 weekends on call and occasional other weekend work as required.

Location

Regional role based in our 7 homes located in Peterborough, Cambridge, Kings Lynn, Ipswich and March.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide visible, supportive and inspirational clinical leadership across the region to support and develop our Home Managers and Clinical Care Managers to lead confident, competent and compassionate clinical teams.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and excellence in clinical practice, escalating risks and sharing learning appropriately.
• Lead and support clinical audits, governance activity and action planning, ensuring improvements are embedded and sustained.
• Support recruitment, induction and ongoing development of clinical leaders, helping individuals achieve their full potential.
• Act as a role model for Athena’s values, behaviours and professional standards.

Training, Skills & Experience Required

• A passion for care – we’re looking for a genuinely caring individual who will put the needs of our residents first.
• NMC Registered Nurse
• Experience in a similar senior care position in care homes is desirable.
• Audits and Quality management experience.
• Proven track record for leading, empowering, supporting & motivating a team.

What we can offer

• Fully comprehensive induction.
• Competitive salary, with fantastic development opportunities.
• 33 days of holiday per year.
• Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
• Refer a friend scheme.

About Athena Care Homes

Athena Care Homes is a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).

Our aim is to be the provider of choice for our residents and the employer of choice for our team members.

Our purpose is to create excellent quality homely environments with the highest standards of care, catering, housekeeping and activities.

We aim to enhance the lives of our residents and enable them to enjoy life to the full as individuals in happy, comfortable and safe surroundings.