Role Summary
The Community Matron is a pivotal member of the Adult Health and Social Care team linking with and supporting primary care, community nursing and the multidisciplinary team at practice and community health and social care team level for patients within the community setting.
The Community Matron will set up, implement and promote the Community Matron’s role supporting patients with complex needs and Long-Term Conditions, under the Continued HealthCare (CHC) Funding Pathway.
The Community Matron will case manage and work with patients, families and their carers to maximise on the benefits of the role in supporting their care programmes, encouraging effective training implementation to enable delegated healthcare tasks to be undertaken by both registered and non-registered healthcare professional in line with the CHC care plan. The post holder will be expected to work in the community setting, in patients own homes as well as within the residential home settings. The post holder will work directly with both Primary Care and the CHC team to undertake assessments and reviews of complex patients on the CHC funded pathway, held as part of a dynamic caseload.
To support the organisation the post-holder will participate in the senior clinician on-call rota and will be remunerated in line with the Trust's Single On-call Remuneration Agreement.
The post holder will support and develop students of nursing through mentorship.
About the Role
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More detail about the role
This is an ideal opportunity for career progression and experience within a community setting.
We are pleased to announce that we are looking for 3 x B7 Registered Nurses to develop as Community Matrons and join our dedicated and highly professional team of nurses and allied health professionals working in Eastern Devon. These posts will be geographically placed across, East, Mid and Exeter with the aim of improving the management of complexities with our patients who received CHC funding. This is a great opportunity for introducing innovative approaches to providing healthcare to people in their own homes and residential care settings. This role will aim to nurture our relationship and develop integrated care pathways.
As a Community Matron role, the post holder will be expected to have studied at degree level and be able to demonstrate long term conditions assessment and case management skills. The post holder will proactively manage, co-ordinate and support patients with multiple complex long-term conditions that are CHC funded and be responsible for ensuring that the delegation of care tasks are undertaken and that the providers of these tasks receive support, education and training to enable safe patient care.
The post holder will have significant levels of specialist knowledge and experience in long term conditions management, and work collaboratively with other appropriate services to ensure patients are appropriately stepped up and stepped down within the CHC funded pathways. The role will ensure that assessments and reviews are carried out, care and planned interventions under CHC funding are implemented safely and held within a dedicated caseload that is proactively managed.
This post brings great scope for integrated working, dynamic caseload management and for the post holder to demonstrate strong clinical leadership skills and develop and enhance relationships with care provider colleagues. The position will include driving to support patients within their own home and residential settings, and the ability to undertake an advanced nursing assessment will be vital, it would be a desirable should you hold the V300 Non-Medical Prescribing qualification.
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week
Interview Date: To be confirmed
We welcome enquiries about this role before or during your application process. If you would like to find out more or arrange an informal visit then please feel free to contact: Nigel Biernacki (Community Nurse team manager) nigel.biernacki@nhs.net on 07595 245 021, or Emma Bagwell (Assistant Director of nursing) ebagwell@nhs.net on 07532 355908
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
About Us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, click here to find out more
It has never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you will help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
Benefits
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you are starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You will benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we will help you get there.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You will have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we would love to hear from you.
