Community Matron

Job overview

Are you an experienced nursing leader with a passion for delivering high-quality community care and developing services that help patients receive treatment closer to home?

We are seeking a Community Matron to join our Community Referral Hub / Single Point of Access, providing senior clinical and professional leadership across Unplanned Care Services, with a particular focus on our community antibiotic services, including IVOPAT and COPAT.

As the operational clinical lead for these services, you will provide continuity across referral, allocation, treatment, monitoring, escalation and discharge. You will actively manage and coordinate the antibiotic caseload, participate in weekly patient reviews and multidisciplinary meetings, and lead quality assurance relating to antibiotic practice, procedures and standards. Working closely with specialist consultants, you will ensure medical decisions requiring infection expertise are made promptly and that patients receive safe, coordinated care outside hospital.

Main duties of the job

Provide senior clinical and professional leadership across the Community Referral Hub / Single Point of Access and associated unplanned care services, promoting safe, effective and compassionate nursing care..

Provide specialist nursing advice and clinical oversight for patients with complex needs, supporting staff to recognise deterioration, manage risk and seek appropriate medical input.

Lead and oversee community antibiotic services, including caseload coordination, treatment monitoring, weekly patient reviews and multidisciplinary meetings, ensuring decisions requiring infection expertise are escalated promptly to the specialist consultant.

Lead clinical quality and governance, overseeing relevant incidents, complaints, risks and patient feedback, and translating findings into learning and measurable improvements.

Lead service improvement and pathway development, using evidence, audit, patient experience and performance data to identify priorities and evaluate change.

Support effective workforce and resource management, working with operational managers on staffing, recruitment, retention, staff wellbeing, absence management and budgets within the role’s remit.

Maintain professional standards and accountability, ensuring accurate records, compliance with Trust policies and NMC requirements, and a visible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.