Care Homes Assessment Team

18 hours ago


London, United Kingdom Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Care Homes Assessment Team (CHAT) are an award-winning service that support the lives and deaths of residents in Care Homes across Enfield and part of Haringey. CHAT is part of Enfield Community Service (ECS) which is hosted by NMUH.
We are looking for a flexible, dynamic and experienced band 7 physical health Community Matron to join our team due to the successful internal promotion of the current post holder. We are a supportive team and organisation and are looking for someone with assessment and diagnosis skills, independent prescribing is essential, experience working with older people, people with mental health and/or learning disabilities in the Care Home environment and experience of having sensitive future care planning conversations and supporting end of life.
The service operates 7 days a week 8am-8pm so late shifts and weekend working on a rota system is expected.
Shift patterns are
8am-4pm
12pm-8pm
9am-5pm - when working as Trusted Assessor in NMUH
The Community Matron will manage a cohort of patients in specific, identified Nursing and Residential Care Homes who either have complex long-term conditions or be at the end-of-life care stage and are either currently very high intensity users of hospital care or at risk of becoming so.
The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, maintaining close liaison with all other stakeholders in the patient’s care including their carers, relatives and particularly the Care Home staff.
Car driver or having access to a vehicle is essential due to requirement to travel between Care Homes, base, home and NMUH.
The Community Matron, in consultation with the GP and / or the Consultant Geriatrician in the team will be expected to identify those patients who could potentially most benefit from case management.
They will expertly assess patients and individually plan treatment, monitoring and contingency regimes. They will work with hospital ward staff, social care staff and community Nurses to prevent avoidable hospital admissions / readmissions and A & E attendances wherever this is feasible.
The role also includes in reach to local acute Trusts and facilitated discharge to improve communication between the Care Home and Acute Trust under the Trusted Assessor model.
Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.


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