Community Matron / Clinical Case Manager

NHS Jobs; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a Community Matron / Clinical Case Manager to lead triage, perform comprehensive home-based assessments, and coordinate multidisciplinary care. The role focuses on ensuring patient safety, effective medication review, and developing care plans to maximise independence.

The post involves working within national guidelines, collaborating with GPs, pharmacists, and other professionals, and attending MDT meetings to drive integrated care for patients in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in community health or equivalent setting.
• Strong assessment and communication skills.
• Knowledge of local protocols and signposting.

Responsibilities

• Triage process: ensure patients meet the criteria for the service.
• Holistic assessment in a patient’s home environment using advanced and specialised skills.
• Risk assessment to determine the appropriate care setting and signpost or refer where needed.
• Medication assessment and review in collaboration with prescribers to ensure safe prescribing practices.
• Case management to develop, implement and evaluate care plans and maximise patient independence.
• Attend weekly internal MDT meetings and participate in external MDT meetings as required.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Care planning

Risk assessment

MDT coordination

Job description

Community Matron / Clinical Case Manager

Triage Process: Ensure patients meet the criteria for the service.

Holistic Assessment: Within a patients home environment, employs advanced and specialised skills to conduct a comprehensive assessment of their clinical, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs.

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. Assesses care plans, develops, implements and evaluates specialised programmes of care/ care packages. 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.

The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas To support compliance with UK immigration requirements, all applicants who require a visa to work in the UK must disclose their visa history in full. This includes current and previous sponsors, dates of sponsorship, visa category, and any changes of employment. If you are on a Graduate or Dependant Visa, please disclose the expiry date on your application. Incomplete information may mean we are unable to consider your application.