Clinical Lead – Homecare & Supported Living Services
Regulated Activity
Personal Care / Treatment of Disease, Disorder or Injury (where applicable)
Role Purpose
The Clinical Lead will play a central role in ensuring the safe, effective, and high-quality delivery of care across all homecare and supported living services. This position is responsible for providing strong clinical leadership, maintaining high standards of clinical governance, and ensuring services remain compliant with all relevant regulatory and safeguarding requirements.
Working across a range of community-based services supporting adults and children with complex health and social care needs, the Clinical Lead will provide expert oversight to frontline teams, ensuring that care is delivered safely, compassionately, and in accordance with best practice. The role requires a confident clinician who can support complex package mobilisation, oversee clinical competencies, manage risk, and provide guidance during challenging situations.
The postholder will act as a key point of clinical escalation for care staff, service users, families, commissioners, and multidisciplinary professionals, while supporting continuous service improvement and helping the organisation maintain excellence in care delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Leadership and Oversight
The Clinical Lead will provide day-to-day clinical leadership across homecare packages and supported living services, ensuring all clinical interventions are delivered safely, effectively, and in line with agreed care plans and professional standards. This will include oversight of complex care interventions such as PEG feeding, tracheostomy care, epilepsy management, medication administration, oxygen therapy, suctioning, and wound care where applicable.
The role will involve undertaking clinical assessments, supporting care package mobilisation, contributing to complex care planning, and ensuring that service users receive safe, person-centred support tailored to their individual needs. The Clinical Lead will also provide clinical triage and escalation support, reviewing incidents, identifying risks, and ensuring timely interventions are implemented to protect service users and staff.
Clinical Governance, Care Planning and Quality Assurance
The postholder will be responsible for maintaining strong clinical governance systems across services, ensuring care delivery consistently meets internal quality standards and regulatory expectations. This includes overseeing the development, review, and quality assurance of person-centred care plans, risk assessments, behavioural support strategies, and clinical documentation.
The Clinical Lead will regularly review medication administration records, clinical audits, incident reports, safeguarding concerns, and quality monitoring outcomes to identify themes, risks, and opportunities for improvement. They will ensure robust infection prevention and control measures are maintained and that all services remain inspection-ready and compliant with relevant legislation, professional guidance, and CQC Fundamental Standards.
Working closely with operational management, the Clinical Lead will contribute to service improvement initiatives, support corrective action planning, and help embed a culture of accountability, reflection, and continuous improvement throughout the organisation.
Staff Development, Competency and Supervision
A key part of the role will involve supporting the development and competency of nurses, healthcare assistants, support workers, and wider care teams. The Clinical Lead will deliver and coordinate clinical training relevant to service user needs and will be responsible for assessing, signing off, and reviewing staff competencies to ensure individuals are safe and confident to practice.
The successful candidate will provide regular clinical supervision, reflective practice sessions, and coaching to staff, helping to build confidence, improve outcomes, and promote a positive learning culture. They will also support recruitment activities where required, including participating in interviews, evaluating clinical competence, and contributing to workforce development planning.
Safeguarding, Risk Management and Compliance
The Clinical Lead will play an active role in safeguarding adults and children, ensuring concerns are identified, escalated, and managed appropriately in accordance with legislation, local authority guidance, and organisational procedures. They will support investigations, contribute to safeguarding enquiries where necessary, and provide professional guidance to staff managing high-risk situations.
The role will require strong clinical judgement and an ability to respond calmly and effectively to emergencies, incidents, and service challenges. The postholder will maintain oversight of risk management arrangements, ensuring care remains safe while balancing service user independence, dignity, and positive outcomes.
Multi-Agency and Stakeholder Engagement
The Clinical Lead will work collaboratively with commissioners, social workers, hospitals, GPs, community nurses, therapists, safeguarding teams, and wider multidisciplinary professionals to ensure coordinated and effective care delivery.
They will represent the organisation in MDT meetings, case reviews, safeguarding meetings, and clinical discussions, acting as a trusted and knowledgeable clinical representative. The postholder will also support hospital discharge pathways, care package transitions, and complex service mobilisation to ensure continuity of care and successful outcomes.
Service Development and Growth Support
As the organisation continues to expand its complex care and supported living services, the Clinical Lead will contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives. This may include supporting the mobilisation of new care packages, contributing clinical expertise to tender submissions, participating in commissioner meetings, and identifying opportunities to improve outcomes, efficiency, and service quality.
The role requires an individual who is comfortable balancing clinical excellence with a practical understanding of service growth, operational delivery, and stakeholder expectations.
Person Specification
The successful candidate will be a Registered Nurse (RGN, RMN, or RNLD) with an active NMC registration and demonstrable experience in complex care, homecare, supported living, community nursing, or a comparable environment.
Applicants should possess strong clinical assessment and risk management skills, together with experience overseeing care delivery for individuals with complex physical, behavioural, neurological, or health-related needs. Experience of leading staff teams, assessing competencies, supporting safeguarding processes, and contributing to clinical governance activities will be essential.
The organisation is seeking an individual who combines strong clinical credibility with excellent communication skills, emotional resilience, sound judgement, and a collaborative approach to leadership. The ability to build effective relationships with families, professionals, commissioners, and staff teams will be critical to success in the role.
Additional specialist experience in areas such as tracheostomy care, ventilation, PEG management, epilepsy care, positive behaviour support, or complex paediatrics would be advantageous.
Additional Requirements
The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check and will ideally hold a full UK driving licence with the ability to travel between service locations as required.
Flexibility to participate in an on-call rota may occasionally be necessary depending on service needs. A commitment to continuous professional development and maintaining clinical competence is essential for this role.
Pay: From £40,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
