# Community Matron > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Wye Valley NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-matron/a85ba7b2-a01c-4b26-b3b3-5028662931e0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-matron/a85ba7b2-a01c-4b26-b3b3-5028662931e0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Wye Valley NHS Trust - **Location:** The County Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Matron - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-21T13:00:46.624Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Herefordshire/Hereford/Wye_Valley_NHS_Trust/Community_Hospital_Matron/Community_Hospital_Matron-v8352359 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8352359?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Desirable **Desirable** - Experience of working within urgent community response, admission avoidance, or discharge pathways - Experience obtained in more than one clinical setting ### essential **Essential** - NMC registration - evidence of extensive communication skills/challenging conversations - Degree in Health related subject - Evidence of professional development - Evidence of leadership of nursing teams/MDT **Desirable** - Masters Level study - advanced clinical skills - knowledge of neighbourhood plan ### application form **Essential** - NMC registration - significant experience at band 7 or band 8 a - evidence of wider NHS experience **Desirable** - Masters Level study - advanced clinical skills - leadership and management qualification ### flexible to meet the needs of the role **Essential** - ability to manage own workload and prioritise - ability to manage the demands of ensuring high quality care and operational pressures - Participation in clinical audit and service development **Desirable** - give examples of capacity and demand in community services - wider clinical experience within the NHS - experience of patient flow and impact on wider system ## Documents - [matron jd/ps (pdf, 407.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10677849) - [wvt benefits (pdf, 621.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1985) ## 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.