Locality Matron
Job Description
Job summary
Join Our Team as a Community Locality Matron!
Are you passionate about making a difference in our communitys health and well-being? Do you have experience in providing high-quality care in a community setting? If so, we want to hear from you!
About You:
You will be an experienced registered nurse with:
- A passion for community-based care.
- Strong clinical and leadership skills.
- The ability to build relationships with patients and local services.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills.
- A current NMC registration (or equivalent).
Why Work with Us?
- Flexible working options to promote work-life balance.
- Ongoing professional development opportunities.
- Supportive and collaborative team environment.
- The chance to make a real impact in the community.
- In Mid Yorkshire community services we are committed to lifelong learning and offer support to enhance your knowledge and skills, to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Main duties of the job
About the Role:
As a Locality Matron, you will be at the forefront of delivering compassionate, patient-centred care within the community. You will play a key role in managing and coordinating care for patients with complex needs, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to improve health outcomes.
The Locality Matron is also responsible for identification of those who are at risk and will provide pro active case management working with specialist nurses, medical colleagues, palliative care, intermediate care, social care, ACPs and Allied Health Professionals. The aim is to reduce hospital admissions and improve quality of life. Supporting patients with long-term conditions and complex health needs. Offering expert advice and guidance to patients and their families. Promoting health education and self-care within the community.Coordinating care between hospital, home, and community settings.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application guidance: We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. Its important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
Job responsibilities
- To clinically supervise and demonstrate specialist community healthcare knowledge and skills to develop the skill set of community nursing staff, students, patients and carers within a cluster of community teams.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership where team members are supported to work and develop clinical practice across all localities acting as joint supervisors to all Nurses where needed.
- The post-holder will undertake clinical assessment, needs identification, planning, case management and co-ordination of care for individuals with highly complex needs and co-existing long-term conditions.
- The post holder will contribute to and support delivery of the corporate agendas, ensuring the delivery of an efficient, high-quality service where nursing practice is evidence based and clinically effective.
- The post holder will be collaborating as appropriate with the person, carer, Primary care networks and partner organisations. As a core member of the Management Team the Matron will ensure the achievement of performance targets, financial controls and professional leadership.
Professional
Compassionate inclusive leadership
- Leading and influencing all staff with kindness, empathy and care is fundamental to the matrons role.
- Being visible and providing an authoritative presence
- Using strategic thinking to spread understanding of the organisations aims
- Demonstrating organisational values and behaviours through role modelling and being available to support staff and patients
- Being inclusive advancing equality and opportunity for all and addressing inequality
- Displaying clinical and professional credibility through enabling and empowering staff
- Acting as an advocate, within their area of responsibility, on behalf of all patients, staff and carers
- Educating other professionals and members of the public about the matrons role sharing knowledge, developing broad individual and team skills and seeking out creative opportunities, as well as standardising practice
- Ensuring a professional appearance and maintaining professional standards, contributing to leading by example.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- ENB 998 or equivalent teaching qualification
- Evidence of current CPD
- Degree or equivalent qualification specific to a clinical specialty
- Evidence of further study/knowledge at masters level or equivalent
Desirable
- Post registration qualification in an area of clinical specialty
- Advanced Clinical Assessment qualification
- Independent Prescribing qualification or an ability to achieve this within 2 years of appointment.
- Degree or equivalent qualification specific to a clinical specialty
- Management qualification
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable
- Ability to demonstrate emotional intelligence and leadership skills
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy and the ability to interpret policy at a local level.
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Knowledge and understanding of application of relevant National Guidance e.g. NICE etc.
- Knowledge of the NHS national targets and priorities
- Understanding of the Trusts objectives and priorities and the ability to work across operational boundaries.
- Evidence of current CPD
- Recruitment and Selection Appraisal and other HR/People Management related training
Desirable
- Management Development Training
Experience
Essential
- Relevant leadership/management role in a large complex healthcare organisation
- Significant post registration experience
- Experience in leading and managing staff.
- Experience of clinical audit and R&D processes and practice
- Experience in strategy and policy development
- Experience in workforce planning and role redesign
- Proven experience in managing and implementing change.
Desirable
- Previous experience in the clinical specialty ( Community )
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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