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Nursing Manager
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Nurse Care Manager (RGN) – Commissioning Opportunity
📍 Surrey | 💷 up to £56,000 + Benefits | 🕒 Full-Time
Lead the launch of a brand new nursing service within an established luxury care home
This is a rare opportunity for an experienced RGN Nurse Care Manager to play a pivotal role in commissioning a new nursing service within a well-established, premium elderly care home. If you're looking for a position where your clinical expertise, leadership skills, and ability to shape services from the ground up will genuinely make an impact, this could be the opportunity you've been waiting for.
Working alongside an experienced senior leadership team, you'll become the home's clinical lead, driving the transition from residential to nursing care while ensuring exceptional standards of care, governance, and regulatory compliance.
🚀 The Opportunity
As the home's senior clinical leader, you'll be instrumental in:
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- Leading the commissioning and development of a new nursing service
- Supporting CQC registration and regulatory compliance
- Recruiting, mentoring, and developing your nursing team
- Embedding clinical excellence and best practice across the home
- Shaping the future of a growing nursing service
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the commissioning and development of a new nursing service within an established care home.
- Provide expert clinical leadership across the home.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing nursing team.
- Ensure compliance with CQC standards, clinical governance, and quality assurance.
- Oversee medication management, audits, and clinical documentation.
- Lead safeguarding processes and manage clinical risk.
- Work collaboratively with the senior management team to deliver outstanding resident outcomes.
- Develop robust care planning and review processes.
- Build positive relationships with residents, families, GPs, and external healthcare professionals.
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🎯 About You
We're looking for an experienced clinical leader who enjoys building services and developing teams. You'll have:
- Current RGN (NMC Registered Nurse) registration.
- Senior nursing leadership experience within elderly care, nursing homes, or a similar clinical setting.
- Strong knowledge of CQC regulations and clinical governance.
- Excellent leadership, coaching, and people management skills.
- Outstanding communication and organizational abilities.
- Confidence making autonomous clinical decisions.
- A genuine passion for delivering exceptional resident care.
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Commissioning or opening new care services.
- Supporting CQC registration or inspections.
- Knowledge of FNC and CHC processes.
- Experience implementing clinical systems and driving quality improvement.
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