Associate Community Matron

Are you a thoughtful, dedicated, dynamic nurse who is passionate about holistic patient care?

An exciting opportunity has arisen, to appoint an Associate Community Matron based in Bath and North East Somerset! 

As an Associate Community Matron you would work closely with the Matron, Primary care providers and other members of the Multidisciplinary team to support patients in the community setting who are vulnerable and have complex healthcare needs. You will case manage your own group of patients, with the support of the Matron, providing clinical assessments and intervention for adults in the community. 

This is a flexible part-time position working 30 hours across the week including potential evening or weekend work to align with the Urgent Care Response model.
Package DescriptionYou will feel valued as a Band 6 Associate Community Matron with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

£35,392 - £42,618 and Agenda for Change terms and conditions –including an NHS pension
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year 
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main ResponsibilitiesAs an Associate Community Matron you will:

Work autonomously as an Associate Community Matron to identify and manage patients with acute / intensive medical needs
Provide clinical expertise with the support of the Matron on leadership for the team
To be support the co-ordination of weekly Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings (MDTs)
To case manage identified patients who require intensive community support
Recognise the early symptoms of disease exacerbation and acute illness
Be responsible for the decisions about the care and service provision, for individual patients requiring intensive community support
Have managerial responsibility for an Assistant Practitioner/Nursing Associate or Locality Care Co-Ordinator as required

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities for this role.

The Ideal CandidateEssential:

NMC Registered Nurse and have studied at degree level
Full UK license and have access to a car for work purposes
Confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Desirable:

Community Nursing Experience
Management/leadership Experience

For more information or to discuss the role in more detail please contact Charlotte Sage at Charlotte.Sage@hcrgcaregroup.com
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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