Clinical Lead
Cherrybrook Care Home is a large, purpose designed service in Bradford, providing specialist care across two units for 120 residents with complex mental health needs, dementia and challenging behaviours. The home delivers high quality, clinically led care within a structured and supportive environment, combining specialist nursing expertise with a strong focus on dignity, stability and person centred support.

Clinical Lead Contract
Salary: £52,000 annual salary
Hours: 40 hour contract
Working pattern: Monday - Friday with occasional weekends

• Paid DBS, pension and uniform provided
• 5.6 weeks annual leave

Role Overview
As a Clinical Lead, you will provide day to day clinical leadership within a specialist complex care environment, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and person centred care for individuals living with complex neurological, physical and long term healthcare needs. Working alongside the wider multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in maintaining exceptional clinical standards while supporting the ongoing development of both nursing and care teams across the service.

You will be responsible for overseeing a team of Registered Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, supporting the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual care needs while ensuring care is delivered safely, professionally and in line with evidence based best practice. You will act as a senior clinical presence within the service, providing leadership, guidance and support to colleagues while promoting high standards of clinical care delivery at all times.

A key part of this role involves supervising and supporting the wider clinical team through induction, mentoring, performance management and competency development while helping create a positive learning environment where continuous development and professional growth are encouraged. You will support staff supervision, identify training needs and help ensure clinical standards are consistently maintained across the service.

You will also take responsibility for supporting daily clinical operations including staff deployment, rota planning, risk management, medication management, clinical governance, quality assurance and maintaining accurate care documentation. Working closely with senior management, you will support clinical audits, contribute towards service development and deputise for the Clinical Team Manager when required, helping ensure the smooth and safe running of the service at all times.

What We Are Looking For

• Registered Nurse qualification with active NMC PIN required
• Previous experience working within complex care, neurological care, rehabilitation, palliative care or specialist healthcare environments
• Previous senior nurse or clinical leadership experience managing nursing teams
• Strong understanding of clinical governance, medication management and care planning
• Experience supporting supervision, performance management and development of clinical staff
• Confidence managing risk, leading shifts and making sound clinical decisions within specialist care environments
• Experience supporting audits, compliance processes and maintaining high clinical standards
• Strong communication skills with ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams, families and external healthcare professionals

About us
CherryBrook Care Home is part of Willinbrook Healthcare, the specialist complex care division of Care Concern Group, a family owned, market leading care provider with a strong and growing presence across the United Kingdom. We are committed to delivering high quality care and developing supportive, rewarding workplaces where our teams can thrive.

Through Willinbrook Healthcare, we deliver high quality, clinically led care for adults with complex physical and mental health needs within specialist, supportive environments.

Our five core values Trust|Respect|Passion|Kindness|Inclusivity are at the heart of everything we do, shaping the care we deliver and the environments we create. If you share these values and want to build or develop your career in a specialist care environment, we would love to hear from you.