Head of Clinical Services - Complex Care

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Nursing

Healthcare

Posted on: Posted 1 hour ago

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Permanent

£80000 - £85000 Per Year

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Head of Clinical Services
Up to £85,000 per annum | Midlands
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced senior clinical leader to join a highly respected complex care provider as Head of Clinical Services.
What's on offer?

Salary up to £85,000 per annum
Sociable working hours
Generous annual leave entitlement
Enhanced sick pay

The Role
Founded over 25 years ago, this well-known organisation has built an excellent reputation for delivering specialist, high-quality care, currently providing approximately 35,000 hours of care per week across the midlands.
As Head of Clinical Services, you will provide strategic clinical leadership, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of complex care services across multiple locations. You will play a key role in maintaining clinical standards, strengthening governance and supporting the continued development of the organisation.
Your responsibilities will include:

Leading clinical governance, quality assurance and risk management across community complex care services.
Providing clinical oversight of packages involving ventilation, tracheostomy care, acquired brain injury, spinal injuries and neurological conditions.
Overseeing safeguarding, incidents, complaints, investigations and clinical audits, ensuring learning is translated into meaningful improvements.
Developing and implementing clinical policies, care standards and competency frameworks.
Leading, supporting and developing clinical teams through supervision, training and competency assessments.
Ensuring new care packages are clinically assessed and safely mobilised.
Maintaining CQC compliance and driving continuous improvements in clinical quality.
Working closely with operational leadership to support sustainable service growth.

About You
You will be a qualified nurse with current NMC registration and substantial senior leadership experience within complex care.
You may currently be working as a Head of Clinical Services, Head of Nursing, Clinical Director or in a comparable senior clinical leadership position.
Ideally, you will have:

Extensive experience within nurse-led community complex care services.
Strong clinical knowledge of high-acuity care, particularly ventilation and tracheostomy support.
Experience leading clinical teams across multiple services or geographical locations.
A strong understanding of clinical governance, safeguarding, risk management and incident investigation.
Experience developing clinical standards, improving quality and maintaining regulatory compliance.
The ability to balance clinical excellence with operational delivery and wider business objectives.