Community Matron | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) to work as a Community Matron within Mersey Care NHS Trust within Liverpool

You will be responsible for the delivery of proactive caseload management and provide first contact care in response to acute long-term conditions and acute episodes of illness for patients in their own homes.

The Community Matron is a key role in the Community Neighbourhood Nursing Service. This service combines District Nursing , Community Matrons and Integrated Care teams.

As a senior clinician, you will demonstrate a high level of professionalism and provide clinical leadership within the Integrated Community teams.

As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will have an advanced clinical role with responsibility for assessing, planning, managing and co-ordinating the care of people, in their own homes and care home settings and with highly complex needs and long-term conditions within a defined caseload.

The post-holder must be educated to MSc degree level in Advanced Clinical Practice with relevant experience.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

To be responsible for planning, reviewing and renegotiating programmes of care to promote health gains and maximise independence within a defined caseload in conjunction with the Integrated Care Teams (ICT) and District Nursing Service.

Develop and maintain communication with people about complex issues and/or in difficult situations.

To use advanced skills and expert knowledge to access the physical and psycho-social needs when there are complex and/or undifferentiated abnormalities, diseases and disorders of a defined client group, instigating therapeutic treatments based on best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes.

To play a lead role in integrated community care teams (ICTs) to improve holistic assessment and approach to health and social care needs of patients.

To play a lead role in improving the access to health care within care home settings.

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.

To accept clinical responsibility for a diverse and often complex caseload of patients, to organise this efficiently and effectively with regards to clinical priorities and use of time.

Demonstrates advanced listening, communication and negotiation skills to understand what matters to each individual patient, to ensure the patient is at the centre of all decisions and to agree and work towards appropriate goals for every patient

To work closely with medical, nursing, allied health professional and volunteer services across primary care, secondary care and community settings to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and care planning to ensure their physical and mental health is optimally and safely managed to afford them the best possible for basis for rehabilitation, reablement and recovery.

To develop / maintain advanced specialist clinical skills and knowledge to identify…