Clinical Lead in Stockport

Location: Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Job Type: Permanent, Full-time (40 hours per week, includes occasional evenings and weekends)

Salary: £24.00

Sponsorship: Not currently available

At Highgate Care, kindness isn’t just something we talk about, it’s the foundation of everything we do. We pride ourselves on offering truly person‑centred care. We’re currently looking for a Clinical Lead to join the team at Cheadle Grange in Stockport. If you’re someone who naturally brings warmth, energy and creativity wherever you go, and you love the idea of making each day meaningful for our residents, this could be the perfect role for you.

As Clinical Lead, you will work closely with the Home Manager to provide visible clinical leadership across the community, ensuring residents receive outstanding nursing and dementia care in a safe, supportive and homely environment. You will lead by example, supporting and developing colleagues while promoting best practice, clinical excellence and positive outcomes for residents.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strong clinical leadership to our nursing and care teams.
• Ensure residents receive safe, effective and person‑centred care.
• Lead on clinical governance, audits and quality improvement initiatives.
• Support medication management and clinical compliance.
• Mentor, coach and develop nursing and care colleagues.
• Build positive relationships with residents, families, healthcare professionals and external agencies.
• Promote a culture of dignity, respect and compassion throughout the service.
• Support the Home Manager in achieving regulatory compliance and quality standards.
• Undertake assessments of new residents and ensure that a Short Term care plan is completed prior to admission of new residents.
• Participate in supervision and yearly appraisals.
• Support the Nurses using Supervision to identify any training that they need to undertake to be able to meet the criteria for Revalidation.
• Ensure that all Nurses use evidence‑based assessment tools and they are completed accurately within 24 hours of a new admission and are evaluated monthly or more often as required.
• Ensure that all Registered nurses work within a framework where Consent, accountability, duty of care, vicarious liability, record keeping, and use of clinical guidelines and protocols are maintained.
• Report unsafe, unethical practice to the Manager of the home in the first instance and to others as appropriate.
• Complete care plans that are person centred with the Resident and relevant others.
• Liaise with other members of the Team, Health and Social care professionals to achieve the care planned and make appropriate referrals as required.
• Act at all times within NMC Code of Conduct.
• Maintain a current NMC registration.
• Meet the criteria for Revalidation, maintaining a professional profile in accordance with NMC guidelines.

Qualifications:

• Registered Nurse (RGN or RMN) with a valid NMC PIN with no restrictions on practice.
• Previous experience working within a dementia setting is essential.
• Experience of leading, supervising or mentoring teams.
• Strong clinical knowledge and decision‑making skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship‑building abilities.
• Passion for delivering outstanding resident‑centred care.

Benefits:

• A friendly, supportive, and welcoming workplace.
• Real opportunities for ongoing training and career progression.
• A chance to make a meaningful impact in people’s lives every day.
• A valued role within a close‑knit team that cares as much about each other as we do our residents.