# Care Homes Assessment Team (CHAT) Community Matron > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/care-homes-assessment-team-chat-community-matron/11787783-770b-47e3-928c-74be31506c5f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/care-homes-assessment-team-chat-community-matron/11787783-770b-47e3-928c-74be31506c5f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Salary:** £55524.00 to £62652.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, including Weekend and Bank Holidays 8am to 4pm and/or 12pm to 8pm) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-31T15:34:33.818Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v7944426 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7944426?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Care Homes Assessment Team (CHAT) are an award-winning service that support the lives and deaths of residents in Care Homes across Enfield and part of Haringey. CHAT is part of Enfield Community Service (ECS) which is hosted by RFL. We are looking for a flexible, dynamic and experienced band 7 physical health Community Matron to join our team. We are a supportive team and organisation and are looking for someone with assessment and diagnosis skills, independent prescribing is essential, experience working with older people, people with mental health and/or learning disabilities in the Care Home environment and experience of having sensitive future care planning conversations and supporting end of life. CHAT support the Trusted Assessor facilitated discharge in NMUH and the successful candidate would work on a rota system both in their allocated Care Homes but also in NMUH delivering Trusted Assessor. The service operates 7 days a week 8am-8pm so late shifts and weekend working on a rota system is expected. Shift patterns are - 8am-4pm - 12pm-8pm - 9am-5pm - when working as Trusted Assessor in NMUH ### Main duties of the job The Community Matron will manage a cohort of patients in specific, identified Nursing and Residential Care Homes who either have complex long-term conditions or be at the end-of-life care stage and are either currently very high intensity users of hospital care or at risk of becoming so. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, maintaining close liaison with all other stakeholders in the patient’s care including their carers, relatives and particularly the Care Home staff. Car driver or having access to a vehicle is essential due to requirement to travel between Care Homes, base, home and NMUH. The Community Matron, in consultation with the GP and / or the Consultant Geriatrician in the team will be expected to identify those patients who could potentially most benefit from case management. They will expertly assess patients and individually plan treatment, monitoring and contingency regimes.  They will work with hospital ward staff, social care staff and community Nurses to prevent avoidable hospital admissions / readmissions and A & E attendances wherever this is feasible. The role also includes in reach to local acute Trusts and facilitated discharge to improve communication between the Care Home and Acute Trust under the Trusted Assessor model. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role. ## Person Specification ### Others **Essential** - Car Driver with current UK License ### Experience **Essential** - Significant post-basic work within acute, mental health or community & primary care nursing fields - Experience of working in a senior nursing role - Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team - Experience of implementing change in clinical practice **Desirable** - Experience of working with or in care homes ### Skills and Aptitudes **Essential** - Ability to manage complex clinical situations within a defined caseload - Ability to work proactively with A&E, ERAS, GPs, and Social Care colleagues to prevent hospital admission - Ability to assess and plan individual care needs in partnership with patients/their carers and MDTs - Ability to work across the multi-disciplinary health and social care team - Ability to case manage for patients/individuals with complex needs - Ability to make decisions autonomously but liaise closely with other care providers within the sector - Ability to give clear and concise reports against performance targets - Ability to handle distressing situations with sensitivity and empathy - Ability to prioritise work/response/triage referrals and messages effectively - Clinical Assessment Skills - Clinical Leadership Skills - Data Collection & Analysis **Desirable** - IT Skills ### Personal Qualities & attributes **Essential** - Enthusiastic and motivated - Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values ### Education & Professional Qualifications **Essential** - 1st. Level Registered Nurse (RGN) with current registration with the NMC - Evidence of CPD in management of Long Term Conditions **Desirable** - Independent Prescribing - Degree in health related topic - Community Specialist Practice - Education at Masters Level ## Documents - [functional requirements (pdf, 90.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10224119) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 432.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10224117) - [nursing and midwifery - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 626.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2755) - [allied health professional - benefits, about rfl, shared commitments and governing objectives (pdf, 627.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2752) ## 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.