Community Matron

The post holder will manage a caseload of individuals with complex needs and long-term conditions who are identified as being at high risk of unnecessary admission to hospital. You will need to have the nursing skills, experience, and expertise to assess, diagnose, treat, and evaluate health and needs.

As part of the Proactive Integrated Care Service, you will work alongside social care, mental health, ambulance, and acute colleagues to ensure coordinated, responsive, and safe care.

All community nurses use EMIS as the clinical record system and are provided with a work Ipad and Iphone. We offer Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and NHS Pension. Procare are committed to supporting the development of all employees to their full potential and all employees working within the Procare Community Services adult community nursing service will additionally have access to the staff benefits, learning and development opportunities offered by the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.

As a Community Matron you will be required to work within the Community Coordination Centre on a rotational basis to cover late shifts and weekends, to clinically review and prioritise new, complex, and urgent referrals. You will need to be able to travel to patients homes frequently throughout the day across the locality and across Guildford and Waverley and have experience to support the District Nursing service at times of business continuity.

The Procare Chief Operating Officer is a Nurse by background, who has a real passion for all aspects of Community working. Our board is clinically led with a Director of Nursing and GPs who have vast community experience, ensuring that Procare has the expertise and knowledge base needed to develop sustainable integrated services.

With a strong emphasis on high-quality care, patient safety, and a positive patient and carer experience as the core of our strategy, our goal is to ensure excellent care for our local community. We aim to achieve this by creating a supportive and highly skilled workforce, making Procare a great place to work.

We are an innovative, ambitious, friendly, and supportive local team. We take pride in our clinically led and flat management structure, which ensures transparent leadership from all directors. We are in search of an individual with the requisite skills and attributes, someone who is pragmatic and solution-focused, and who desires to be a part of our local Community Nursing Services.

Please find attached a role specific Job Description and Person Specification for details in tasks, responsibilities and duties as required by this role.

The post holder will ensure that patients, services users, families, and carers have a positive safe and high-quality experience when accessing and receiving care, treatment, advice and support from Procare employees and will ensure learning is shared and embedded in situations where things did not go as well as they should have.

Patients are the most important people in the health service and are at the centre of primary and community health care services. As patients and carers are the ‘experts’ in how they feel and what it is like to live with or care for someone with an illness or condition, all Procare employees are guided by real experience of our services to guide quality and service improvements.