Job summary
Job overview
This job opportunity seeks passionate and community-oriented individuals to join the Virtual Ward Team as Band 7 Community Matron. The position emphasises admission avoidance through rapid response assessments and hospital-at-home interventions, providing patients with alternatives to hospital admission. The service runs from 8am - 8pm which will be required of you to cover.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the UCR, 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 duties of the job
Main Responsibilities:
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Caseload Management: Maintain ongoing responsibility for a caseload of patients requiring complex chronic disease management, ensuring continuity and quality of care.
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Cross-Sector Collaboration: Operate across both primary and secondary care services, bridging the gap between different levels of healthcare to provide comprehensive patient support.
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Admission Avoidance: Actively work within healthcare services to facilitate admission avoidance, implementing strategies to manage patient conditions effectively at home or in the community.
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Non-Medical Prescribing: Utilise non-medical prescribing skills to manage and prescribe medication for patients, enhancing treatment options and ensuring timely therapeutic interventions.
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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.
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country - one of the country's most culturally diverse areas. It's a friendly and welcoming place - a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.
We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.
Our values - Ambition, Respect and Compassion - are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.
Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It's what makes us unique.
We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.When we say we're 'with you all the way' we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
Person Specification
Other
Essential
- UK Driving Licence and Access to Own Vechicle for Work Purposes
Qualifications
Essential
- Health related Degree
- Health related Diploma or equivalent
- NMC First Level Registered Nurse of Health Professions Council Registered Practitioner
- Registered Independent/Supplementary
- Prescriber or willing to work towards qualification
- Post basic accredited qualification relevant to Long Term Condition (LTC) management or experience of working with patients with a LTC
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience in care of patients with long Term Conditions
- Community Nursing experience
- Experience of service development
- Experience of working across traditional health and social care boundaries
- Experience of team working
- Experience of providing care to patients in their own home
- Experience of assessing, planning and evaluating episodes of patient care
- Experience of working in diverse communities
- Experience of managing a caseload
Leadership
Essential
- Organise and prioritise own and team workload
- Line manage and deploy staff effectively to meet service needs
- Able to respond to interruptions in work patterns in response to service needs
- Able to cope working in a stressful, hostile or highly emotive environment with patients and carers of patients presenting with disabilities, chronic or terminal conditions, including those with limited recovery potential.
- Able to deal sensitively with patients with high levels of anxiety/aggression caused by pain, dementia, sedation, limited mobility or who are unable to accept rehabilitation outcomes.
- Able to deal with situations involving conflict and dispute and disciplinary matters
Person Specification
Other
Essential
- UK Driving Licence and Access to Own Vechicle for Work Purposes
Qualifications
Essential
- Health related Degree
- Health related Diploma or equivalent
- NMC First Level Registered Nurse of Health Professions Council Registered Practitioner
- Registered Independent/Supplementary
- Prescriber or willing to work towards qualification
- Post basic accredited qualification relevant to Long Term Condition (LTC) management or experience of working with patients with a LTC
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience in care of patients with long Term Conditions
- Community Nursing experience
- Experience of service development
- Experience of working across traditional health and social care boundaries
- Experience of team working
- Experience of providing care to patients in their own home
- Experience of assessing, planning and evaluating episodes of patient care
- Experience of working in diverse communities
- Experience of managing a caseload
Leadership
Essential
- Organise and prioritise own and team workload
- Line manage and deploy staff effectively to meet service needs
- Able to respond to interruptions in work patterns in response to service needs
- Able to cope working in a stressful, hostile or highly emotive environment with patients and carers of patients presenting with disabilities, chronic or terminal conditions, including those with limited recovery potential.
- Able to deal sensitively with patients with high levels of anxiety/aggression caused by pain, dementia, sedation, limited mobility or who are unable to accept rehabilitation outcomes.
- Able to deal with situations involving conflict and dispute and disciplinary matters
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).
