Job summary
We are looking for an experienced Community Registered Nurses with strong Leadership skills lead our forward thinking, Innovative Community Nursing Localities team.
The team is aligned with the five Portsmouth Primary care Networks in providing patients with a Multidisciplinary team approach for their health care needs.
The Localities service comprises of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy staff. Also aligned and working closely with a Specialist Diabetes team and Enhanced Care Home Team.
The post holder will work within an integrated team to case manage co-ordinate and support patients with multiple complex long-term conditions. You will manage and coordinate a Nursing Team as part of the Community localities in Portsmouth.
Your Leadership as a Community Matron will include supporting and supervising your staff and enabling them, to provide high quality, person-centred care. Your excellent clinical, interpersonal and leadership skills will enable you to work collaboratively within, primary, secondary, and social care partners.
You will have or be working towards the extended and supplementary prescribing qualification.(V300)
Main duties of the job
As a Community Matron you will diagnose, prescribe, and implement a range of care interventions for people on your caseload, with an emphasis on avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions. Using your autonomous advanced clinical skills, you will plan care interventions for people with multiple, complex long-term conditions and coordinate and lead the team ensuring that patients receive timely and safe care. As caseload manager, they will have responsibility for ensuring all health and social care needs are met to improve health outcomes, functional status and quality of life. The post holder will work to ensure integration of all elements of care, increase patient choice and prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital and reduce the stay of necessary hospital admissions. You will work collaboratively with other appropriate services to ensure patients are appropriately stepped up and stepped down from the community matron caseload.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nursing or RN Currently registered with the NMC.
- Non-Medical Prescriber (V300) or working towards.
Desirable
- Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality, i.e. Specialist Community Practitioner Qualification.
- Non-Medical Prescriber (V300) or working towards.
- Management or Leadership Qualification.
- Practice assessor / supervisor.
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans.
- Experienced in developing and delivering care and a range of clinical interventions to patients.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students.
- Experience of MDT working.
- Evidence of recent CPD.
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources.
- Clinically competent at Band 7 level.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, ability to receive and provide complex information which may be sensitive, contentious, where persuasive negotiation may be required and there could be barriers to understanding.
- Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others; works within clear code of practice.
- Problem solving skills.
- Advocacy skills.
- Teaching, supervision and assessing skills.
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner.
- Dexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound management, as required for role.
- Assess patient/clients plan develop/implement programmes of care conditions, using judgement when assessing/evaluating patients' conditions.
- Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others.
- Ability to adapt to change within work situation.
- Frequent need to deal with managing emotional issues.
- Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion.
- Understanding of a range of clinical approaches.
- Awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area.
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Be able to demonstrate and understanding of the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion and how they apply to staff and patients in a healthcare setting. Able to demonstrate personal commitment to challenging discrimination and promoting equalities, at an appropriate level for the post.
- Is able to work legally in the UK.
- Is able to work with children and vulnerable adults.
- Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites in Southampton/Portsmouth/Hampshire as required for the role.
- For posts which require a professional registration, post holders hold a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
- For posts where postholders are required to drive as part of their role they hold a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Nursing or RN Currently registered with the NMC.
- Non-Medical Prescriber (V300) or working towards.
Desirable
- Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality, i.e. Specialist Community Practitioner Qualification.
- Non-Medical Prescriber (V300) or working towards.
- Management or Leadership Qualification.
- Practice assessor / supervisor.
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in assessing and developing patient care plans.
- Experienced in developing and delivering care and a range of clinical interventions to patients.
- Experience of teaching, training and supervision/assessing junior staff and students.
- Experience of MDT working.
- Evidence of recent CPD.
- Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources.
- Clinically competent at Band 7 level.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, ability to receive and provide complex information which may be sensitive, contentious, where persuasive negotiation may be required and there could be barriers to understanding.
- Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others; works within clear code of practice.
- Problem solving skills.
- Advocacy skills.
- Teaching, supervision and assessing skills.
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner.
- Dexterity required for intravenous and intramuscular injections, inserting catheters, setting up syringe drivers, removal of sutures, wound management, as required for role.
- Assess patient/clients plan develop/implement programmes of care conditions, using judgement when assessing/evaluating patients' conditions.
- Ability to work as part of a team and support development of others.
- Ability to adapt to change within work situation.
- Frequent need to deal with managing emotional issues.
- Understanding of the health needs of people in their care and health promotion.
- Understanding of a range of clinical approaches.
- Awareness of research and evidence-based practice relevant to clinical area.
- Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Be able to demonstrate and understanding of the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion and how they apply to staff and patients in a healthcare setting. Able to demonstrate personal commitment to challenging discrimination and promoting equalities, at an appropriate level for the post.
- Is able to work legally in the UK.
- Is able to work with children and vulnerable adults.
- Ability to travel for meetings across a range of sites in Southampton/Portsmouth/Hampshire as required for the role.
- For posts which require a professional registration, post holders hold a valid up to date registration with their professional body.
- For posts where postholders are required to drive as part of their role they hold a valid full driving licence which enables them to drive in the UK.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth)
Milton Road
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO3 6AD
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
