Job Introduction
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred care in the community? We’re delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Community Matron to join our Adult Community Services, based in Sittingbourne, Kent.
As a Community Matron, you’ll play a key role within our Integrated Care Teams (ICTs), working closely with a range of internal and external partners to support patients with complex health needs, long-term conditions and frailty.
Your clinical expertise and compassionate approach will help improve patient outcomes, promote independence and reduce avoidable hospital admissions within the local community.
This role covers the Sittingbourne locality, and you will be required to travel across the area as part of your role. A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are therefore essential.
Main Responsibility
Key Responsibilities:
Work autonomously as a senior community practitioner, managing patients with complex, long-term conditions and frailty
Undertake comprehensive assessments and contribute to personalised care planning in collaboration with patients, carers and the wider MDT
Coordinate and review care plans to support proactive management and reduce the risk of avoidable hospital admissions
Provide clinical leadership and professional support within the Integrated Care Team
Promote self-management and preventative care, identifying early signs of deterioration and responding appropriately
Support service development through audit, quality improvement activity and contribution to best practice
Demonstrate safe, effective clinical decision-making and a high standard of professional practice
Maintain accurate clinical records in line with professional, organisational and legal requirements
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
Current NMC registration
Significant post-registration experience within community or primary care settings
Experience caring for patients with long-term conditions and complex health needs
Strong communication, organisational and clinical leadership skills
Knowledge of health promotion, prevention and community-based care delivery
Desirable
Community qualification or relevant postgraduate study (or willingness to work towards)
Experience supporting service improvement or quality initiatives
An interest in further development within community and integrated care services
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Band 6 Community Matron within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
AFC Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases such as grocery shopping, plus cashback and voucher offers
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest rates
Online and face-to-face support for your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life-management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ Learning and Development Team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to share ideas and help shape service delivery in line with our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our services rated “Good” or “Outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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