Clinical Manager - Green Tree Court, Exeter

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Location: Exeter

Role type: Care Home

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000

Please be advised there is application deadline on 12th December 2025.

Do you like to connect with people, make a difference and do the right thing?

Somerset Care is an award-winning not-for-profit care provider across the South West. When people think about care, they think of the Somerset Care Group.

Green Tree Court became part of the Somerset Care Group in 2024.

We are proud to state that we are a disability confident employer.

Everything we do at Somerset Care is underpinned by our four core values:

• Connecting with people
• Making a difference
• Doing the right thing
• Embracing change

By living these values, we ensure that we keep our commitment to delivering high-quality, tailored care to support and enrich the lives of our customers.

Join our Care Home Team in Exeter. Green Tree Court located in Exeter is a luxury, 68-bedroom care home which has achieved the Stirling Gold Standard for dementia design. The home provides a comfortable, safe, stylish environment, for those requiring expert dementia support and nursing care.

Purpose of the role

The Clinical Manager is a senior clinical leader responsible for ensuring safe, high-quality nursing care, supporting staff development, and embedding best practice. The role also carries a strategic remit to mentor and advise community services, strengthening Lexicon and Somerset Care's role as an integrated partner in local health and social care systems. This includes oversight of clinical governance at service level, ensuring robust systems are in place to monitor and improve care quality across the home and wider service portfolio.

Key responsibilities of the role

Engaging People & Key Working Relationships

• Act as a clinical mentor to internal nursing and care staff.
• Provide advisory input to external community services including domiciliary care, district nursing, primary care, and therapy teams.
• Develop integrated care pathways that enhance continuity, reduce avoidable hospital admissions, and promote best practice.

Community and Systems Integration

• Champion the delivery of care across the service portfolio, ensuring individuals access the right care in the right setting.
• Represent the home in ICS forums and safeguarding partnerships.
• Provide clinical oversight for transitions of care and complex case management.

Staff and Service User Engagement

• Promote staff wellbeing and resilience, fostering a positive team culture.
• Involve residents and families in care planning and service evaluation.
• Encourage community engagement through events and partnerships.

Delivering Results & Functional Responsibilities

• Lead the nursing and care team, working with the Home Director.
• Ensure compliance with NMC Code, CQC standards, and Lexicon or group policies as appropriate.
• Oversee clinical governance at service level, including:
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Medicines optimisation
  • Safeguarding
  • Risk management
  • Incident investigation
  • Management of DoLS, FNC applications, DNARs, Treatment escalation plan updates
  • Oversight of wounds, pressure ulcers, falls, and unexpected deaths
  • Completion of Quarterly Quality Assurance Returns (QAFs) for NHS/Local Authority contracts
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation using systems (such as care planning, medication management systems etc.).

Leadership and Workforce Development

• Provide structured mentorship and supervision for Registered Nurses, care staff, students, and newly qualified nurses.
• Facilitate reflective practice and promote a learning culture.
• Support succession planning and leadership development within the care home workforce.

Setting Direction & Service Improvement

Clinical Governance and Quality

• Lead audits, supervision, and reflective practice to ensure safe and effective care.
• Monitor key quality metrics (e.g. falls, pressure ulcers, infection rates) and implement improvement plans.
• Develop and implement clinical policies and procedures in line with regulatory and professional standards.

Service Development and Innovation

• Identify and implement evidence-based improvements.
• Lead or contribute to projects enhancing residential, nursing, dementia, and palliative care.
• Support budgetary planning and resource management, particularly around workforce and training.

You will need to ensure you have relevant experience and qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years' managerial experience in a health or social care setting.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, and leading clinical staff.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, clinical governance, and regulatory compliance (CQC, commissioners).
• Up-to-date knowledge of nursing theory, older people's care, and evidence-based practice.
• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Willingness to work towards Level 5 Management & Leadership (QCF) within 1 year.
• Willingness to provide out-of-hours support and participate in the on-call rota.
• Effective communicator, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for individuals.
• Strong leadership and delegation skills.
• Ability to remain calm and decisive under pressure.
• IT literacy (Microsoft Office and care record systems).
• Empathetic, resilient, and approachable with a caring attitude.

As a valued employee, you'll have access to a range of benefits:

• Full company induction, ongoing training to gain Nationally recognised Health and Social Care qualifications plus the opportunity to start an Apprenticeship.
• Full time opportunity
• Salary £45,000 - £55,000
• Blue Light Card - provides access to more than 15,000 discounts from large national retailers to local businesses!
• Wellbeing support available, covering a wide range of support services and events.
• Reward and recognition - Bright Sparks, Somerset Care Group Awards, Long Service Awards
• Refer a Friend Bonus - £350 per person you refer (Uncapped and paid on successful appointment)

Somerset Care Limited is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and welcome applications from all individuals. As this position involves "regulated activity" (as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) an Enhanced DBS check will be undertaken.

It's a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group. Somerset Care is committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and children at risk.

Apply now!