Job Introduction
Working closely with our Specialist Nurses, Community Nursing teams and MDT Co-ordinators in the DGS locality, you’ll work as a highly skilled Case manager delivering high quality care to a specified caseload of patients with Long term condition with comorbidities and highly complex needs. Essential to the role will be supporting patients in Improving their quality of life, promoting excellence of health and independence within the community, preventing inappropriate hospital admissions and facilitating early discharge, as well as provide education, support with self-management and health promotion.
You’ll care for patients and their families in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work.
Within the Dartford Gravesham and Swanley localities, we have commenced with our newly formed PCN-aligned neighbourhood community nursing teams, enabling effective communication between community nurses and GPs to deliver exceptional person-centred care
Interviews to be held w/c 1st May 2023 (Provisional)
Main Responsibility
To provide advanced clinical nursing support for patients with complex long-term conditions and/ or elderly/frail. Working as an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will effectively manage a caseload of patients with long term conditions, stratified as high risk.
Working in collaboration with appropriate health and social care professionals, the post holder will ensure continuity of care; aiming to reduce preventable hospital admissions and to improve quality of care for patients with long-term conditions in their usual place of residence (own home; residential or nursing home).
To engage with innovation, including tele technologies, to continually strive to effectively support the management of patients. To promote self-management strategies for patients and their carers, through education and advice, to reduce avoidable reliance on urgent services and promote positive patient outcomes.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be a Registered Nurse with a current NMC registration and a minimum of 2 years’ experience of working closely with patients with Long-term conditions with complex needs at Band 6 or Band 7. You will have strong communication and organisational skills and a flexible approach that will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey
You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As a Community Matron, you’ll be part of our valued team at Gravesend
You will feel valued as a Matron within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £41,659 - £47,672 Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
- Plentiful onsite parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- 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 help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from 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.
From around 500 locations 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 a broad diversity of talent to apply. We reserve the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications.
