Community Matron

Join our Care Home Liaison Team in Knowsley as a Community Matron (Advanced Nurse Practitioner)., 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 be a highly skilled practitioner, with the ability to work autonomously, with experience in clinical examination/diagnostics. The Community Matron will be the named Clinical nurse lead for the Care Homes within the Primary Care Network.

The post holder will provide leadership and have managerial responsibilities for senior clinical nurses within the service and support the education and training scheduling for staff in care homes. The ability to be able to travel between different sites is essential.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.