Community Matron

Do you want a challenge?

Are you keen to work within an integrated multidisciplinary team within Health & Justice? Do you have the skills to work with patients who have complex long-term conditions?

If you can answer yes to these questions join our team.

The Community Matron is an integral part of the Integrated Care Team and works collaboratively with the wider team to provide clinical expertise and support for managing people with complex medical and social needs.

The post holder will utilise their advanced clinical skills provide comprehensive, advanced assessment, treatment, care, support and advice to patients at HMP Wymott.

The Community Matron will work closely with Primary Care to identify patients through risk stratification and develop proactive patient centered care plans, actively implementing and following through on the care plan to establish and monitor its implementation. The Community Matron role is a key role in the Proactive Management and Integration of the healthcare services at HMP Wymott.

The Community Matron will proactively holistically assess, and case manage a caseload of patients with highly complex needs, working closely with the GP to identify patients that would benefit from preventative interventions using clinical judgement and a risk stratification tool. The role will complement the primary care nursing team and specialise in chronic disease management across.

The Community Matron will provide clinical care and leadership, coordinating the care and case management of patients identified to be a high user of services, with long term conditions.

The Community Matron will have/will be expected to develop high level skills in physical assessment and diagnostic reasoning including prescribing within their scope of practice.

The Community Matron will work collaboratively across health, social care services and the voluntary sector to identify vulnerable patients with complex needs.

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
- Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
- To work as an integral part of the integrated community nursing, multidisciplinary and multiagency teams.
- Use advanced clinical skills and expert knowledge to provide proactive monitoring and provide timely intervention.
- To improve the patient's self-management of their condition wherever possible taking into account the functional and cognitive patient assessment.
- As a non-medical prescriber (NMP) take necessary assessments, medicines review and prescribe within the Prescribing Framework.
- Develop and maintain communication with people about complex issues and/or in difficult situations.
- 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.
- To improve the patients self-management of their condition wherever possible taking into account the functional and cognitive patient assessment.

See attached detailed job description and person specification:
Staff benefits

Pay Enhancements - 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card Discounts