This job opportunity seeks passionate and community-oriented individuals to join the Urgent Community Response (UCR) Team as Band 7 Community Matrons. The position emphasises admission avoidance through rapid response assessments and hospital-at-home interventions, providing patients with alternatives to hospital admission. Key Responsibilities Collaborate with the Virtual Ward, Integrated Front Door, and Home-Based Intermediate Care multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) to deliver effective interventions. Oversee patient care, ensuring a holistic approach to meeting the needs of patients within their homes. Support from a broad team, including Consultants, GPs, Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), and the Integrated Care Service (iCares), which spans across Sandwell Community. Contribute to rehabilitation, case management, and admission avoidance strategies. This role presents an exciting chance to utilise your leadership and clinical expertise in shaping the future of our evolving community services. With a focus on integrated care, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring patients receive comprehensive support in the comfort of their homes. If you are creative, community-focused, and ready to make a significant impact on patient care, we encourage you to apply Please note this role will primarily be based at the Sandwell Council House. Main Responsibilities Caseload Management: Maintain ongoing responsibility for a caseload of patients requiring complex chronic disease management, ensuring continuity and quality of care. Cross-Sector Collaboration: Operate across both primary and secondary care services, bridging the gap between different levels of healthcare to provide comprehensive patient support. Admission Avoidance: Actively work within healthcare services to facilitate admission avoidance, implementing strategies to manage patient conditions effectively at home or in the community. DVT Service Involvement: Provide care and interventions within the Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) service, ensuring timely assessment and management of patients. Non-Medical Prescribing: Utilise non-medical prescribing skills to manage and prescribe medication for patients, enhancing treatment options and ensuring timely therapeutic interventions. Avoiding Unnecessary Hospital Admissions: Implement strategies to manage patient conditions effectively in the community, reducing the need for hospital admissions whenever possible. This role requires a combination of clinical expertise, leadership skills, and a proactive approach to patient care, aimed at delivering high-quality services and supporting the evolving needs of the community. Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality. Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from a first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). This will be applicable to your role on a rotational basis, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities. We Have Three Newly Emerging Strategic Objectives Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chris Mason Job title: Deputy DGM Email address: christopher.mason10nhs.net Telephone number: 07870387352