Main area: Nursing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Part time
* Flexible working
22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 150-OM1107-EAS
Employer: Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Anchor Healthcare Centre
Town: Peacehaven
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 31/10/2024 23:59
Care Home Matron
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you looking for a brand new challenge that will utilise your advanced nursing skills, with great opportunities for professional development?
We are recruiting a Care Home Matron to work in Peacehaven in close partnership with Primary Care Network (PCN), care homes, and local care providers.
Main duties of the job
These are well-established roles, ideal for enthusiastic, autonomous, self-motivated, confident, and proactive practitioners. The successful candidates will work as key components of an integrated team, liaising with our PCN and care home partners, focusing on delivering the PCN Directed Enhanced Service: Enhanced Health in Care Homes specification.
The post holders will link with wider SCFT services, forming strong links both internally with our Community Nursing teams and externally with the wider PCN teams, care homes, and medicine optimisation services.
They will undertake advanced clinical assessment, needs identification, planning, case management, and coordination of care for individuals with highly complex needs and co-existing long-term conditions. They will work proactively to reduce unplanned hospital admissions and facilitate discharge from hospital for care home residents identified through weekly check-in meetings with the care homes and the dedicated PCN team.
We offer a supportive working environment and encourage all our staff to develop their careers through both in-house and external training opportunities.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million, providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, and adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
* Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
* Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
* Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
* Excellent training and development opportunities
* Research opportunities
* Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
* Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
* Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
* Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
* Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
* Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.
For any informal conversations/visits please contact Claire Ellis, Clinical Service Manager.
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration - Baseline
* Advance Physical Assessment course Masters Level or willing to work towards at earliest opportunity
* Non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards at earliest opportunity
* Mentoring course or equivalent / practice assessor
* Evidence of continuing professional development
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration - Physical Health Nurse
* Post graduate level degree or equivalent
* Masters Qualification or willing to work towards at earliest opportunity
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration - Dementia Specialist Nurse
* Registered Mental Health Nurse
* Masters Qualification or willing to work towards at earliest opportunity
* Advance assessment course and 2 years at an advance level experience to define competencies set at practitioner level 6 (DH)
Experience
* Clinical experience five years or more
* Leadership Experience
* Evidence of effective team leadership and organisational skills
* Teaching and assessing qualification
* Evidence of ability to work with a multidisciplinary team
Skills and Knowledge
* Evidence of up-to-date based knowledge and skills, particularly in older people’s issues
* Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care
* Evidence of professional development and knowledge
* Able to analyse complex and challenging situations and problem solve as necessary
* Evidence of ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively with system partners
Other
* Must hold current UK driving licence
At the heart of how we operate is our Trust values:
* Working Together,
* Achieving Ambitions
Our values are fundamental to the high-quality care we provide to the people who need us. We are proud to be a community that cares, delivering our services as a team whilst supporting our employees as individuals.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer that actively promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We embrace and celebrate diversity, encouraging applications from individuals of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with an ethnically diverse heritage, those with disabilities, and individuals identifying as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Our aim is to grow a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.
This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.
Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically, please ensure you check your emails, including your junk folder. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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