Community Matron (Band 8a) - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust – Merseyside
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) to work as a Community Matron within Mersey Care NHS Trust, within Sefton Place, based in the South of the area.
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 and CQC Registered care homes.
The Community Matron is a key role in the Community Services that operates across South Sefton. This service combines the District Nursing service with trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Community Matrons. 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.
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 Care Home Advanced Model of Provision (CHAMP).
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 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.
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 develop / maintain advanced specialist clinical skills and knowledge to identify changes in a patient’s condition through clinical examination.
To undertake interventions consistent with evidence-based practice, transferring and applying knowledge and skills to meet client needs.
To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in meeting prior agreed goals and making any necessary modifications.
As a non-medical prescriber (NMP) take necessary assessments, medicines review and prescribe within the Prescribing Framework.
To be responsible for ensuring the provision of planned intervention in all aspects of chronic disease management with appropriate input from the multidisciplinary team in order to reduce the risk of complications and deterioration of the patient’s condition.
To improve the patients “self-management” of their condition wherever possible taking into account the functional and cognitive patient assessment.
Ensures that the care provided and services delivered are in line with local and national guidelines and policy.
Maintaining accurate and legible patient notes in accordance with Trust and national professional policies and guidelines.
To work as an integral part of the integrated community nursing, multidisciplinary and multiagency teams.
To actively participate in projects designed to improve the proactive management of patients.
Demonstrates professional responsibility for adherence to Trust and NMC policies and procedures.
The post holder may be exposed to frequent distressing or emotional circumstances with patients who are terminally ill or suffering end of life events, and will be required to deal with this situation in a professional manner.
Please refer to Job Description attached for full list of duties and responsibilities.
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