Community MatronNHS

Job summary

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.

Job description

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.

About us

About us Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.