Community Matron - Care Home Team

Job summary

Are you passionate about making a difference to health and wellbeing on a large scale?

Do you pride yourself on providing holistic care?

Do you enjoy supporting others to provide best care possible?

If the answer is yes we have an exciting opportunity for you. The Solent Care Home Team is looking to recruit a Band 7 Matron. To support the delivery of essential nursing care, assessment and treatment throughout our Portsmouth Residential and Nursing homes. You will use all your skills and knowledge within this diverse post to support patient experience, wellbeing, recovery, rehabilitation and End Of Life care.

As well as playing an active role in the face to face element of patient experience, you will also be using your leadership skills to support education and development within both health and social care areas. The team offers a unique opportunity to work with a wider multidisciplinary team including Adult Social Care, Private Care Providers, General Practitioners and wider teams.

The teams hours 8:30-4:30 on a 5 day rota. Weekend working will be required as part of the rota with the team.

If you would like to discuss the opportunity further please do reach out to hiring manager.

Main duties of the job

To provide expert clinical case management and support for patients with complex care needs living in Nursing & Residential Homes, who are at risk of deteriorating health that may result in declining quality of life or avoidable hospital admission.

Work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability.

Diagnose, prescribe, and implement a range of core interventions with an emphasis on avoiding hospital admission or an unnecessary longer length of hospitalisation.

Provide specialist, expert clinical knowledge and leadership whilst directly/indirectly supervising other team members.

Use advanced skills and expert knowledge and perform comprehensive and systematic physical examination.

Planning care interventions for people with multiple and complex long-term conditions, working with the multi-professional team. You will work collaboratively with Care home and Nursing home staff and Primary Care Networks in managing the health needs for the designated patient group.

You will participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of the delivery of health care services and be part of the development of health services and inter-professional working.

Working collaboratively with Adult Social Care supporting home closure.

To lead, facilitate and provide clinical advice and expertise to the Multidisciplinary team meeting programme within the Care homes.

To provide timely advice and planning support to Care Homes that require intensive support following CQC inspection.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.