Role Summary
We are looking for a Community Matron to join our supportive, dedicated and highly professional team of Nurses and Allied Health Professionals working in the Hospital Discharge Team, in the Royal Devon University (RDUH) Hospital. This is a 6-month fixed term opportunity for introducing innovative approaches to providing palliative discharge and advance care planning support to patients with a life-limiting illness.
- To promote and deliver advanced Clinical skills to assess discharge requirements and future care plans for Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital patients with life-limiting illnesses.
- To promote dignity, encompassing a person-centred approach to positively enhance the lives of patients with complex life limiting illnesses.
- To review, evaluate and develop the discharge pathway for patients with palliative and end of life care needs.
About the Role
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
We are an integrated Health and Social care team based on the acute site providing Clinical assessment and triage for patients face to face to prevent unnecessary Hospital admissions or to facilitate appropriate discharges. We also work to support patients through the end stages of their life. This role involves using a patient centric approach to completing Nursing assessments and formulating discharge plans.
In this Community Matron role, the post holder will be expected to have studied at Degree level and have the ability to work as a confident autonomous practitioner. You will need high level Clinical assessment and problem-solving skills to manage complex patients who require assessment of needs prior to discharge. This post brings great scope for integrated working, and the post holder will be able to demonstrate strong Clinical leadership skills and develop and enhance relationships with Care provider colleagues.
You will work in partnership within an integrated team including medical colleagues in the RDUH, Primary Care, Community Nursing, Allied Health Professionals, Social Services, voluntary agencies and any other relevant services. You will proactively co-ordinate and support the Hospital discharge process for patients with palliative diagnosis or long-term conditions. You will have significant levels of knowledge and experience in long term conditions and community palliative care, and work collaboratively with other services to ensure patients are appropriately supported within the discharge pathways. The role will ensure that assessment and review are carried out, referrals for care and planned interventions are implemented safely, and that appropriate, safe and effective discharge is proactively managed.
The post holder will be expected to work in the acute setting as part of the Hospital Discharge Team (HDT), liaising regularly and effectively with relevant community services. The post holder will work directly with Clinicians in the RDE, particularly in the Emergency Department (ED) and Acute Medical Unit (AMU), alongside the Hospital Specialist Palliative Care Team where appropriate.
The HDT Community Matron will promote the role within HDT, supporting patients with complex needs, life-limiting conditions and a palliative diagnosis. The post holder will demonstrate palliative care knowledge and skills in the capacity of primary discharge link between Royal Devon and community services, advising on decision-making around palliative care issues and access to other Health and Social Care services on discharge, to support the needs of patients and those close to them.
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week, over 5 days.
Interview Date: To be confirmed
For further information please contact: Harriet Nicholls, Advanced Clinical Practitioner for End Of Life Care, Community Division Eastern on h.nicholls5@nhs.net / 07513 702848 or Emma Bagwell, Assistant Director of Nursing, Community Services on ebagwell@nhs.net / 07532 355908
This is a fixed term contract for 6 months. For current NHS employees this post could be a secondment opportunity.
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.
