# Band 8a Matron - Community > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8a-matron-community/7360456e-8179-453f-83ba-29e90a7645f3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-8a-matron-community/7360456e-8179-453f-83ba-29e90a7645f3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Birmingham - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term/ Secondment) - **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-05T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-22T12:42:47.191Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Solihull_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health_Community/Mental_Health_Community-v7997037 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7997037?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced, compassionate, and clinically credible leader with a passion for improving care for older adults? We are seeking an exceptional Older Adult Community Matron to join our Community Mental Health Team on a one-year fixed-term basis. This is a pivotal senior clinical leadership role focused on delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to older adults with complex mental health needs in the community. ### Main duties of the job As a Community Matron, you will provide expert clinical leadership across the CMHT, supporting individuals with complex, frail, and often co-morbid mental and physical health needs. You will play a key role in: Leading on case management for high-risk and complex patients, ensuring proactive, coordinated care Driving quality, safety, and patient experience improvements across the service Supporting admission avoidance and timely discharge, working closely with inpatient services and system partners Providing clinical supervision and leadership to nursing and multi-disciplinary colleagues Embedding personalised, recovery-focused care planning, ensuring the patient voice is central Strengthening partnership working with primary care, social care, acute services, and the voluntary sector This is an opportunity to shape and strengthen community provision for older adults at a time of transformation. You will be part of a forward-thinking, supportive leadership team committed to: Delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care Reducing health inequalities for older people Supporting staff wellbeing and professional development Driving innovation in community mental health ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification. ## Job Details Are you an experienced, compassionate, and clinically credible leader with a passion for improving care for older adults? We are seeking an exceptional Older Adult Community Matron to join our Community Mental Health Team on a one-year fixed-term basis. This is a pivotal senior clinical leadership role focused on delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to older adults with complex mental health needs in the community. ## Job Description As a Community Matron, you will provide expert clinical leadership across the CMHT, supporting individuals with complex, frail, and often co-morbid mental and physical health needs. You will play a key role in: Leading on case management for high-risk and complex patients, ensuring proactive, coordinated care Driving quality, safety, and patient experience improvements across the service Supporting admission avoidance and timely discharge, working closely with inpatient services and system partners Providing clinical supervision and leadership to nursing and multi-disciplinary colleagues Embedding personalised, recovery-focused care planning, ensuring the patient voice is central Strengthening partnership working with primary care, social care, acute services, and the voluntary sector This is an opportunity to shape and strengthen community provision for older adults at a time of transformation. You will be part of a forward-thinking, supportive leadership team committed to: Delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care Reducing health inequalities for older people Supporting staff wellbeing and professional development Driving innovation in community mental health ## Responsibilities For further information about the main responsibilities please view the attached job description and person specification. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant post registration nursing experience within mental health - Experience in professional leadership, clinical governance and supervision and appraisal **Desirable** - Experience within a Older Adult setting - Experience within a Community Setting ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - A demonstrable knowledge of evidence - based nursing practice in mental health nursing - Evidence of understanding and developing nursing policy and practice, education and research within the context of a multidisciplinary setting **Desirable** - Experience of effective redesign and improvement methodologies ### Training and Qualifications **Essential** - Qualified RMN on NMC Register of Nurses **Desirable** - Evidence of significant post registration education and development at degree level or equivalent - Significant management and or leadership training ## Documents - [applicant guide (pdf, 313.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1260) - [job description (pdf, 248.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10281562) - [equality statement (pdf, 572.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2416) - [person specification (pdf, 56.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10281563) - [everyday behaviours guide (pdf, 159.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2415) - [information for applicants (pdf, 431.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1709) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.