Senior Community Matron — Lead Advanced Community Care

Northumbria Group.; Amble; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing programme

Generous annual leave & pension

Lease car & home electronics scheme

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Community Matron to lead and coordinate care for patients with complex needs across Northumberland communities.

The role demands advanced clinical assessment, proactive case management and leadership of community nursing teams, with opportunities for developing prescribing within 2 years and ongoing professional development.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse 1st level.
• First level degree in health-related subject.
• Advanced Physical Assessment and history taking qualification.
• Independent Prescribing qualification or ability to achieve this within 2 years of appointment.
• Registered mentor.
• Relevant and additional post registration e.g. Advanced / Specialist qualification.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• To clinically supervise and demonstrate specialist community healthcare knowledge and skills to develop the skill set of community nursing staff, students, patients and carers within a cluster of community teams.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership where team members are supported to work and develop clinical practice across all localities acting as joint supervisors to all Nurse Practitioners where needed.
• The post-holder will work towards advanced professional practice including advanced clinical skills, medicines management, leadership, supporting self-care management and forge interagency and partnership working to improve outcomes for patients with co-existing long-term conditions.
• In addition, the post-holder will work proactively to reduce unplanned hospital admissions and facilitate earlier discharge from hospital for patients identified through multi-disciplinary team meetings, high risk patient programmes or proactive care management.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Independent Prescribing

Advanced clinical assessment

Mentor

Leadership

Education

First level degree

Advanced / Specialist qualification

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Community Matron to lead and coordinate care for patients with complex needs across Northumberland communities.

The role demands advanced clinical assessment, proactive case management and leadership of community nursing teams, with opportunities for developing prescribing within 2 years and ongoing professional development.