Job summary
Our Community Matrons for complex care focus on our most complex patients in the Neighbourhood Nursing caseloads requiring in-depth care, support and co-ordination of different services. You will work with the Neighbourhood Nurses and be at the centre of care, pulling in all the resources required to co-ordinate the care for these patients in community. You will also work alongside the Multi-Disciplinary Teams to ensure the patients have the care provided to prevent hospital admissions, prevent deterioration and promote independence and health education. This is a fantastic opportunity to really make a difference!
This is also a great opportunity to build relationships with our acute and primary care colleagues and help to prevent hospital admission as you will be in contact with referring hospitals and GP's to cover patients within Southwark and Lambeth areas.
If you are experienced and an expert with a wide range of clinical skills and would like work with our community nursing teams providing advanced nursing care, then we would like to hear from you.
Closing date: 25th January 2026 at Midnight
Interview date: 2nd February 2026
Main duties of the job
Our Complex Care Community matrons act as case managers and are a single point of contact for care, support or as advanced nurse practitioners providing a variety of tasks and responsibilities, including:
- Carrying out physical examinations.
- Deciding on and carrying out treatment, including prescribing medicines or referring patients to an appropriate specialist.
- Using their expert knowledge and clinical judgement to identify the potential diagnosis and where appropriate make a final diagnosis.
- Using their extensive practice experience to plan and provide skilled and competent care that meets patients' health and social care needs, involving other members of the healthcare team as appropriate.
- Ensuring the provision of continuity of care, including follow-up visits.
- Assessing and evaluating, with patients, the effectiveness of the treatment and care provided and make changes as needed.
- Working independently, although often as part of a healthcare team.
- Providing leadership.
- Making sure that each patient's treatment and care is based on best practice.
- Seeing patients in their own home and in other community settings.
- Working as part of multi-professional and multi-agency teams.
Providing supervision, education and support to members of the community nursing team.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
You will have the opportunity to further develop and enhance your skills with the support and training available by working alongside experienced nurses and specialists. We have a supportive culture to encourage each other to strive to be the best within our daily practice. Our feedback as a team reflects this.
Working with us you will have access to numerous benefits:
- Mobile devices for personal protection whilst in practice, allowing you to work more flexibly.
- Opportunity to apply for training and mentorship programs on all grades of nursing staff.
- Access to our partners e.g. Kings College London for Masters level education opportunities.
- Financial, health and wellbeing support.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description for complete details and key responsibilities for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description for complete details and key responsibilities for this role.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience working as a senior practitioner in a team.
- Experience of teaching and assessing
- Experience of interagency and collaborative working.
- Experience of clinical audit, benchmarking and evaluation of services.
Desirable
- Experience of working in or with primary care
Skills&Personal Qualities
Essential
- Well-developed advanced assessment skills.
- Ability to demonstrate evidence based care and decision making that is responsive to the needs of clients and carers and negotiated in partnership with them.
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner being responsible and accountable for choices made.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills and ability to facilitate these skills in others.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with an ability to adopt a number of ways to influence diverse parties.
- Ability to lead and implement successful change management.
Desirable
Qualifications/Education
Essential
- RN (General Adult)
- Education to 1st degree level or equivalent.
- Evidence of post registration education relating to the care of older people and long term conditions
- Teaching certificate (e.g. ENB 998/997) or SSSP training
- Advanced assessment, long term conditions
- Nurse formulary prescriber
- Independent prescribing module successfully completed or willingness to undertake on taking up post.
Desirable
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience working as a senior practitioner in a team.
- Experience of teaching and assessing
- Experience of interagency and collaborative working.
- Experience of clinical audit, benchmarking and evaluation of services.
Desirable
- Experience of working in or with primary care
Skills&Personal Qualities
Essential
- Well-developed advanced assessment skills.
- Ability to demonstrate evidence based care and decision making that is responsive to the needs of clients and carers and negotiated in partnership with them.
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner being responsible and accountable for choices made.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills and ability to facilitate these skills in others.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with an ability to adopt a number of ways to influence diverse parties.
- Ability to lead and implement successful change management.
Desirable
Qualifications/Education
Essential
- RN (General Adult)
- Education to 1st degree level or equivalent.
- Evidence of post registration education relating to the care of older people and long term conditions
- Teaching certificate (e.g. ENB 998/997) or SSSP training
- Advanced assessment, long term conditions
- Nurse formulary prescriber
- Independent prescribing module successfully completed or willingness to undertake on taking up post.
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
