Community Matron/Clinical Case Manager

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

• Triage: Ensure patients meet the criteria for the service.
• Holistic Assessment: Within a patient's home environment, conduct a comprehensive assessment.
• Risk Assessment: Evaluates patients' safety needs to determine the most appropriate care setting. This involves providing specialist advice and, if necessary, signposting or referring to other healthcare providers.
• Medication Assessment and Review: Assess and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, prescribing, and/or de-prescribing in accordance with evidence-based practice, national and local protocols, and within the scope of practice and legislative framework.
• Collaborate with other prescribers (GPs, pharmacists, consultants, and specialists) to ensure continuity and safe prescribing practices.
• Case Management: Identify, prioritise, and implement case management plans to achieve health gains and maximise patient independence.
• Maintain effective and timely communication with patients, carers, and all relevant services and agencies (statutory and non-statutory).
• MDT Meetings: Attend, participate, and lead where appropriate weekly internal MDT meetings and external meetings as required.
• Provide clinical supervision to Health 7 Wellbeing Coordinator and as a line manager, have the responsibility of signing off expenses and annual leave according to Trust policy.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.