Community Matron

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Matron to join our busy team on a permanent full time basis

The post holder will be required to provide clinical case management to a group of patients who meet the Trust identified criteria, who have long term conditions and other complex medical and social problems.

They will develop the clinical case management role and function across health and social care organisations.

The primary function of the role is to maximise the patient's health, clinically assess and treat patients in a defined group and reduce risks that contribute to ill health, thereby reducing unnecessary admissions to acute services, reducing demand on GP time and facilitating the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and timely high quality care to patients.

An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to provide clinical case management to a group of patients who meet the Trust identified criteria, who have long term conditions and other complex medical and social problems.

They will develop the clinical case management role and function across health and social care organisations.

The primary function of the role is to maximise the patient's health, clinically assess and treat patients in a defined group and reduce risks that contribute to ill health, thereby reducing unnecessary admissions to acute services, reducing demand on GP time, and facilitating the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated, and timely high-quality care to patients.

The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.

The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation. These principles will recognise the need to:

• Promote safe practices


• Value the aims of service users


• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice


• Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change


• Value social inclusion
  
  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.


We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018


• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)


• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme