Job responsibilities
What you'll be working:
We can be flexible but you will work a total of 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday
High Dependency (Fernwood)
*** This is a nurse qualified post ***
What you'll be doing:
Through strong clinical leadership, the Unit Manager will promote excellence in nursing care, maintaining and improving clinical standards.
The post holder will ensure that all residents are treated with compassion, dignity, and respect, valuing the diversity of the local community and beyond.
They will be highly visible and accessible.
The Unit Manager’s key responsibility is to ensure that clinical care is clinically effective, safe, and delivered to the highest standard to their assigned area.
- Clinical Leadership & Standards
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- Lead the delivery of high-quality, person-centred nursing care, ensuring compliance with ACG standards, clinical governance frameworks, and national regulations.
- Maintain a visible and accessible leadership presence, supporting colleagues and acting as a role model for professional, safe, and compassionate practice.
- Work collaboratively with the Matron and MDT to maintain and monitor excellent clinical standards and drive continuous improvement in resident care.
Workforce Management & Development
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- Oversee the effective rostering and deployment of nursing colleagues, ensuring safe staffing levels, appropriate skill mix, and responsiveness to service needs and acuity.
- Manage colleague performance through regular appraisals, performance reviews, and addressing underperformance or attendance issues in a timely, supportive manner.
- Identify training needs and ensure all mandatory training, clinical competencies, and professional development plans are in place and regularly reviewed.
- Ensure a supportive learning environment for students and new colleagues, and monitor the quality of placements and mentoring within the clinical area.
Safety, Risk & Clinical Governance
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- Ensure a safe and clean care environment through proactive leadership in infection prevention, health and safety, and risk management.
- Lead or contribute to incident investigations, including root cause analyses, and implement actions to prevent recurrence and promote organisational learning.
- Promote a culture of safety and openness where colleagues are encouraged to raise concerns, and ensure concerns are acted on through appropriate escalation.
Resident Experience & Advocacy
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- Champion dignity, privacy, and respect in all aspects of care, advocating for residents and ensuring their voices influence service delivery and improvement.
- Establish systems for collecting, reviewing, and responding to resident and family feedback to improve the overall care experience.
- Lead regular caseload and care reviews with the MDT, ensuring all care plans are up to date, person-centred, and focused on outcomes.
Statutory Compliance & Safeguarding
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- Ensure all actions and documentation comply with the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), including making timely referrals and maintaining accurate records of assessments and best interest decisions.
- Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns in line with national legislation and ACG policies, and act as a key point of contact in multi-agency safeguarding processes.
- Ensure colleagues are confident and competent in recognising and responding to issues relating to capacity, consent, and deprivation of liberty.
Service Development & Improvement
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- Support and lead service improvement initiatives, participating in development programmes that enhance the quality, efficiency, and responsiveness of care.
- Work closely with internal and external partners, including NHS bodies and local authorities, to ensure integrated, seamless care and alignment with national targets.
- Promote innovation in nursing practice and identify opportunities to develop the nursing contribution within the wider service model.
What to look forward to:
- 25 days plus bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
- Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
- Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
- A Nest Personal Pension account
- Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
- We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
- Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
- Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 for Nurses, Therapists & Doctors, £500 all other roles, by recommending someone you know
- ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group
We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.
