Community Matron

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; 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 involves advanced clinical assessment, proactive case management for highly complex patients, and coordinating care with Specialist Nurses, Medical colleagues, Palliative Care, Intermediate Care and Social Care to reduce hospital admissions.

The Matron will provide clinical leadership and support staff development within the community

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.

We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

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

Cramlington

Leigh McCabe

Clinical Neighbourhood Matron

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