About The Role

The Policy & Competency Manager will lead and manage the development of clinical and quality policies and clinical competency frameworks to support continuous improvement in care and quality standards, the use of evidence-based practice and the HC-One Kind Care Model.

Leading and supporting the development of clinical and care competencies for all HC-One nursing and care staff in conjunction with other functional teams, the Policy & Competency Manager will align policies and competencies with current and future policy directions from regulatory and best practice guidelines and assist with the development of new clinical roles and new skill mix initiatives by developing the underpinning competencies and tools.

They will establish and manage a robust process for new policy identification, policy review, policy tracking and prioritisation, produce monthly reports on the status and all aspects of policy development and ensure that the customer voice is considered in all policy development activities.

The Policy & Competency Manager will support initiatives related to clinical leadership, development of professional standards and nurse revalidation.

About You

Ideally degree qualified in a health and social care related area, you are a Registered Nurse with evidence of further professional development and updating of clinical skills and have significant experience in the development of policies and standards in health and social care.

You have a strong focus on customer care and are a confident communicator who creates professional and credible relationships at all levels, working collaboratively to build effective working relationships both internally and externally.

With a thorough understanding of UK regulatory requirements, you have extensive experience and knowledge of clinical competency frameworks, assessment methods and their application in practice, and strong analytical and written skills, including the ability to translate complex evidence into concise and accessible operational policies and competencies.

This role is flexible on location, some ability to travel is required.

About The Company

HC-One offers professional residential, nursing and specialist dementia care for older people. We aim to be the first choice care home in each community for Residents and Colleagues; we will achieve this mission through providing the kindest possible care to Residents in over 300 care homes across the United Kingdom.

We are very proud of our outstanding team at HC-One. They are caring, warm-hearted and professional people who have a clear understanding of our Residents individual needs, choices and wishes.

What HC-One offer

Complimenting your salary, you will enjoy access to a huge variety of benefits and services to support your physical and psychological well-being and throughout your career we will invest in you and you will enjoy additional support and benefits including:

Award-winning learning and development

An opportunity to learn from experienced colleagues as part of an outstanding and committed team

GP online   - a new online service run by Aviva providing around the clock GP consultation via an interactive app - available to you and your children under 16

Colleague discounts – Access to over 1600 high street discounts including carefully selected discount partners

Wellbeing - a completely free of charge access to an independent and confidential Employee Assistance Programme provided by AXA called “Be Supported”. This gives Colleagues and their family access to 24/7 365 support for a whole range of issues including physical, mental and financial issues