Community Matron

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Blyth; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Matron to join our Community Nursing Teams across South East Central Northumberland. The post holder undertakes advanced clinical assessment, identifies needs, plans, coordinates care for patients with highly complex needs, and works with multi-disciplinary teams to improve outcomes.

You will provide clinical leadership to nursing staff and contribute to competence assessments.

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical assessment of patients with highly complex needs.
• Coordination of care via case management with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Undertakes advanced clinical assessment, identifies needs, plans, case manages and coordinates care for patients with highly complex needs and co-existing long-term conditions, in partnership with other professionals and agencies.
• Provides clinical leadership for staff within the Community Nursing service, including training and supervision and assessing competence of registered and non-registered staff.
• Contributes to the assessment of competence for staff and supports service development.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment

Case management

Leadership

Team collaboration

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Matron to join our Community Nursing Teams across South East Central Northumberland; the Community Matron will be responsible for identification of vulnerable patients who are at risk and also those frequently admitted to hospital by proactive case management working with Specialist Nurses, Medical colleagues, Palliative Care, Intermediate Care, Social Care and AHPs, the aim is to reduce admissions and improve quality of life. They will provide support into the care homes.

Northumbria Healthcare Trust are committed to lifelong learning and offer support to enhance your knowledge and skills, to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

• The Community Matron undertakes advanced clinical assessment, identifying needs, planning, case management and coordinating of care for patients with highly complex needs and co- existing long term conditions, working in partnership with other professionals and agencies to improve patient outcomes.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership for staff within the Community Nursing service, supporting the development of staff roles with regular training and supervision and will contribute to the assessment of competence for registered and non registered staff.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lyndsey Wilkinson Job title: Clinical Neighbourhood Matron Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07500552961