Community Matron

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality healthcare to individuals? We're thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and experienced Community Matron to join our dynamic healthcare team.

As a Community Matron, you'll play a pivotal role in the delivery of our Integrated Neighbourhood Teams (INT's) across West Lancashire, working alongside multiple internal and external services.

Your expertise and compassion will make a significant difference in improving the health outcomes and quality of life for individuals under your care.

You will need to be an experienced practitioner, with proven clinical abilities in the management of patients with complex health needs and long term conditions in the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions.
Package DescriptionYou will feel valued as a Community Matron within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
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 ringfenced innovation funding each year 
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location

Main Responsibilities
To work autonomously as a senior practitioner In managing the acute and complex health needs of patients with long term conditions and frailty.
To act as the lead clinician coordinating personalised management plans to reduce the risk of avoidable hospital admissions.
To deliver clinical assessment, Initiate and manage diagnostics, confirm diagnosis, and recommended clinical management plans that Include prescribing If clinically Indicated, according to personal and professional competencies.
To be practice as a core member of the Integrated Neighbourhood teams.
To deliver responsive care when patients report signs of exacerbation or deterioration of their long-term condition and where clinically Indicated complete same day urgent assessment.
Provide clinical leadership and role modelling for junior members of the team and other members of the wider multi-disciplinary team. 
To provide Community Service representative at Primary Care Network MDTs and develop positive professional relationships and networks to enable coordinated and multi-disciplinary approach to supporting patients with complex health and social care needs.
To case manage identified patients who require intensive clinical support, aiming to prevent avoidable hospital admissions, promoting self-management and self-empowerment to support patients in the long-term management of their condition.
Provide health education; provide regular support and reviews as required.
The post holder will be able to recognise the early symptoms of disease exacerbation, acute illness based on an understanding of the chronic diseases, the disease process, clinical assessment skills, current evidence, and practice standards.
To provide caseload leadership and management that demonstrates quality, safety, and productivity in line with commissioning intentions.
 Act as a role model for the delivery of high standards of care that complies with NMC codes of conduct and Trust policies.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities. 
The Ideal CandidateEssential

Degree in appropriate subject or evidence of education to degree level.
Current NMC registration
Master’s degree (completed or working towards), or equivalent work-based experience.
Clinical examination and clinical diagnostics (advantageous) or willing to work towards.
Registered Non-medical prescriber (advantageous) or willingness to undertake the programme.
Post registration qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
Evidence of clinical experience at a high level in a range of clinical settings including the community / primary care.
Knowledge of chronic disease management.
Evidence of influencing, motivating, and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
Experience of clinical leadership and clinical pathway development
Understand and experience of successful multi-agency working.
Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/carers/colleagues.
Ability to network with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with the public health policy.
IT literate – with strong report writing skills.
Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
Risk assessment skills.
Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
Self-management and motivation skills
Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.

Desirable

First line management experience

Other requirements:

Ability to travel and work across boundaries when/if required.

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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