Overview
Band 6 Community Matron – Sittingbourne
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 Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
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Work autonomously as a senior community practitioner, managing patients with complex, long-term conditions and frailty
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Undertake comprehensive assessments and contribute to personalised care planning in collaboration with patients, carers and the wider MDT
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Coordinate and review care plans to support proactive management and reduce the risk of avoidable hospital admissions
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Provide clinical leadership and professional support within the Integrated Care Team
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Promote self-management and preventative care, identifying early signs of deterioration and responding appropriately
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Support service development through audit, quality improvement activity and contribution to best practice
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Demonstrate safe, effective clinical decision-making and a high standard of professional practice
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Maintain accurate clinical records in line with professional, organisational and legal requirements
Ideal Candidate
Essential
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Current NMC registration
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Significant post-registration experience within community or primary care settings
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Experience caring for patients with long-term conditions and complex health needs
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Strong communication, organisational and clinical leadership skills
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Knowledge of health promotion, prevention and community-based care delivery
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Desirable
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Community qualification or relevant postgraduate study (or willingness to work towards)
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Experience supporting service improvement or quality initiatives
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An interest in further development within community and integrated care services
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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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