Community Matron

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in King's Lynn is seeking an experienced Community Matron to provide intensive case management and improve patient outcomes. Collaborate closely with GPs to manage complex cases and prevent hospital admissions. The ideal candidate will have a background in nursing, and experience in multi-disciplinary work, while demonstrating strong leadership skills. Competitive salary ranging from £47,810 to £54,710 per annum pro rata.

Qualifications

• Experience of multidisciplinary and partnership working in acute and community settings.
• Evidence of specialist clinical expertise within relevant areas such as COPD and heart failure.
• Able to work autonomously and to use initiative.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced intensive case management and clinical nursing care to patients.
• Work with integrated teams and case managers to facilitate early discharge from hospital.
• Proactively case find patients who are high-intensity users of healthcare services.

Skills

Clinical assessment skills

Leadership skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

IT competence

Education

RGN and current NMC registration

Masters Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice

Job description

Go back Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Community Matron

The closing date is 22 October 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinical nurse as a Community Matron to work within the Kings Lynn and Coastal PCN's.

This rewarding post will be aligned to General Practice and the successful candidate will work very closely with GP's to identify and case manage complex patients to enhance the patient's health and quality of life. Through this process the aim is to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and where patients have been hospitalised, to facilitate an early discharge.

Close collaboration with other Health and Social Care Services is an essential part of this role and the successful candidate will need to have excellent communication skills and an ability to organise and prioritise their caseload according to the needs of their patient's and the service.

Enquiries Welcomed.

Main duties of the job

To provide advanced intensive case management and clinical nursing care to patients with long term conditions who are high intensity users of both primary and secondary care.

Please see job description for more information.

About us

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

Job responsibilities

To assess and provide advanced level interventions for patients with long term conditions to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.

To work within the integrated team and case managers to facilitate early discharge from hospital.

To work within the integrated team and case managers to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.

To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.

To provide a 7 day , 365 days a year service between 8am and 5pm.

To facilitate and develop a service providing complex case management.

To proactively case find patients who are very high intensity users of primary and secondary healthcare and / or are at high risk of unplanned admission to hospital.

To educate and support the members of the multi-disciplinary teams to intensively case manage these patients.

To intensively case manage their own caseload of patients with highly complex and unstable health needs.

Develop systems and processes to support intensive case management within the multi-disciplinary team and with partners across the health system.

work with and refer appropriately to other agencies to enable identified patients to be intensively managed in a pro-active way with the aim of preventing hospital admission, supporting early discharge and reduce GP contact.

Be accountable for the intensive case management and where appropriate intervention of a defined patient caseload.

Case finding to actively work with GPs and other agencies, and with appropriate information technology, such as population health management data, to case find patients.

Be a champion for people with long term conditions.

The post holder will practise as a non-medical prescriber in accordance with the Trusts non-medical prescribing policy, protocols, national policies, and within ones scope of competency.

Person Specification

Other

• Ability to travel

Qualifications

• RGN and current NMC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development and its application
• Evidence of specialist clinical expertise within a relevant area such as COPD, Heart Failure
• Masters Degree incorporating Advanced Clinical Practice and Independent Prescribing (or willingness to undertake)

Experience

• Experience of multidisciplinary and partnership working in acute and community settings
• Advanced understanding of clinical conditions and clinical experience in managing long-term conditions
• Implementing change
• Clinical Supervisor
• Post qualification experience including previous experience at least at Band 6 level
• Teaching in Clinical Practice
• Contribution to service planning
• Experience of audit

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

• Broad range of clinical skills
• An understanding of wider NHS and social care issues
• An understanding of intensive case management and systems for case finding
• Ability to influence and motivate staff at all levels
• Competent in use of IT
• Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
• Ability to use and interpret information and demonstrate this in supporting evidence for this post

Personal Attributes/Behaviours

• Demonstrates strong leadership skills
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills
• Evidence of strong interdisciplinary and multiagency team working
• Flexible and committed
• Ability to work autonomously and to use initiative

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata