Bank Community Matron

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust is recruiting experienced community matrons to its bank to cover its community services. The work centres on expert nursing for people with complex long-term conditions at home, coordinating case management to prevent avoidable admissions and speed discharge. Post-holders work alongside GPs, community teams and social care staff, leading clinical care and supporting colleagues, with flexible and compressed hours.

Fit depends on a first-level nursing degree, non-medical prescribing or willingness to train, and post-registration experience at a senior level.

• Coordinate care through case management to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate timely discharge, for patients with frailty, COPD, Parkinson's, diabetes, dementia and CHD
• Provide high-standard clinical care using advanced skills to assess needs holistically and deliver evidence-based treatment
• Carry out comprehensive assessments and coordinate personalised care plans
• Take part in educational programmes on self-care for patients, carers and health and social care workers
• Develop and promote multidisciplinary working across health and social care, including the Integrated Community Access Point (ICAP)
• Act as named Community Matron for an Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT), supporting care coordination across the network
• Monitor quality of care and identify areas for service development
• Provide clinical leadership and support for complex case management and long-term condition care, including the Universal Care Planning (UCP) framework
• Give specialist advice and support to colleagues, promoting evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality of care

• Registered nurse with a first-level degree or equivalent
• Evidence of continued professional development and commitment to master's-level study
• Non-medical prescriber, or willing to undertake training
• Relevant post-registration qualification, such as advanced clinical assessment, district nursing specialist or frailty

• NMC registration

• Post-registration experience at a senior level
• Extensive experience assessing and caring for people with complex long-term conditions
• Community experience and multidisciplinary team working
• Working collaboratively across organisational boundaries and change management
• Teaching others and giving and receiving clinical supervision
• Providing evidence-based care, and audit and evaluation

• Advanced clinical skills and extensive biomedical knowledge across long-term conditions, including frailty
• Detailed knowledge of primary care, national and local policy, clinical governance and adult safeguarding
• Knowledge of research and audit processes, resource management and quality outcome measures
• Holistic assessment, sound judgement and safe action in urgent or unpredictable situations under pressure
• Leadership, delegation, negotiation and teaching; clear verbal and written communication; strong interpersonal and IT skills

• Working independently, prioritising own workload to meet deadlines, and travelling to provide care in patients' homes

• Case management qualification, or willing to undertake
• Experience of report writing
• Experience of policy development
• Experience of working collaboratively with care homes
• Experience of completing Complex Geriatric Assessments (CGA)
• Experience of completing Universal Care Plans (UCP)
• Presentation skills
• Proactive management and leadership skills

• Competitive employment package
• Support for development and training
• Greater flexibility in when and where you work across community services
• Unsocial hours payment where applicable