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About the Service

Our care homes are real homes — welcoming Jewish communities built on belonging, dignity, and connection. They are vibrant environments filled with meaningful activities, companionship, entertainment, and compassionate care. Residents benefit from synagogue services, kosher or kosher-style meals, and celebrations of Shabbat and Jewish festivals throughout the year.

Our Retirement Living communities enable tenants to remain active and independent within a warm and supportive Jewish environment, with reassurance that 24-hour support is available whenever needed.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Clinical Assessor & Educator to lead the development of clinical capability, competency, and professional practice across our Care Homes and Retirement Living Services.

This senior role combines clinical education, competency development, and complex clinical assessment responsibilities. You will play a key role in strengthening clinical governance, improving standards of care, and supporting staff to deliver safe, high-quality, person-centred services.

Working closely with operational, quality, and multidisciplinary teams, you will support a culture of continuous learning, reflective practice, and professional development across our services.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Education & Competency Development

• Develop and deliver structured training programmes for registered nurses, care staff, and support teams
• Support competency development across areas such as clinical observations, risk management, medication management, and core nursing skills
• Identify learning needs through feedback, audits, incidents, and quality reviews
• Develop and maintain training resources, guidance materials, and eLearning content
• Coordinate mandatory and statutory training including safeguarding, infection prevention and control, and medication management
• Support Registered Nurse revalidation and promote lifelong professional development

Clinical Leadership & Quality Improvement

• Lead or support clinical audits, incident reviews, and thematic learning initiatives
• Provide clinical guidance on best practice, risk management, and care planning
• Work collaboratively with Registered Managers, GPs, Social Workers, and multidisciplinary teams to support safe clinical decision-making
• Contribute to quality improvement projects, governance meetings, and organisational working groups
• Use learning from incidents, complaints, and clinical reviews to shape targeted education and improvement activity

Clinical Assessment

• Undertake complex holistic assessments to support safe admissions into Jewish Care services
• Assess physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and financial needs
• Provide evidence-based recommendations to Registered Managers to support admission decisions
• Liaise with residents, families, hospitals, social workers, and healthcare professionals throughout the assessment process
• Support families with guidance, documentation, and signposting to additional support services
• Ensure assessments and decisions are documented in line with best practice and organisational procedures

About You

You will be a confident and compassionate Registered Nurse or healthcare professional with a passion for education, professional development, and improving standards of care for older people.

You will also have:

• Strong experience delivering education and competency-based training within healthcare or social care settings
• Excellent communication, coaching, and presentation skills
• Strong clinical assessment and care planning skills
• A collaborative and supportive approach to leadership and development
• Confidence working across multidisciplinary teams and multiple sites
• Strong organisational and time-management skills
• A proactive commitment to continuous improvement and reflective practice

Qualifications & Experience

Essential:

• Registered Nurse qualification (Adult, Mental Health, or Learning Disability) with current NMC registration, or Degree in a healthcare-related subject
• Teaching or education qualification such as PGCert in Clinical Education, ENB 998, Level 3 Award in Education and Training, or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years post-registration clinical experience
• Experience delivering education and training to care staff and registered nurses
• Up-to-date clinical knowledge relevant to care home nursing

Desirable:

• Experience facilitating reflective practice or clinical supervision
• Previous experience working within care home settings
• Experience in mentorship or clinical supervision

Additional Information

• 36.25 hours per week
• Multi-site role requiring regular travel across services

Why Join Jewish Care?

At Jewish Care, you’ll join a compassionate, values-led organisation committed to Excellence, Integrity, Innovation, Compassion, and Inclusiveness. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by supporting clinical excellence, staff development, and outstanding care for older people across our communities.

Jewish Care is the largest provider of health and social care services for the Jewish community in the UK. Every week, we touch the lives of 10,000 people. We provide services to a range of people including older people, people with mental health needs and people living with dementia.

Our five values are at the heart of the way we work. They drive how we act as individuals and as an organisation and shape our culture. We value Excellence, Integrity, Innovation, Compassion, and Inclusivity.

Jewish Care operate a rolling recruitment process and reserve the right to close the advert once a suitable candidate has been identified.