Community Matron - Care Homes
Accepting applications until: 29-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 29-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- South Shore PCC
- Address
- Lytham road
- Town
- Blackpool
- Postcode
- FY4 1TJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Work weekend and Bank Holidays as required)
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Community Nursing
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
We are looking for highly skilled, compassionate and forward thinking Care Home Matron to join our care home support team. The successful candidate will work with the Blackpool South neighbourhood to support the care home residents in this area. The position is a permanent position.
It is the expectation that the successful applicant has achieved their non medical prescriber V300 certificate and is in possession of the clinical examinations skills module.
This post is subject to going through job matching process.
Advert
To support care home residents with responsibility for planning, managing and co-ordinating the care of those with highly complex needs and long term conditions . The post has recently become a more reactive post with elements to reduce hospital admission and supporting the GP processes.
The role will also entail supporting the members of the team and the wider PCN services to deliver enhanced care in care homes, supporting any proactive work around anticipatory care plans - and providing training and support to homes as needed.
A primary objective will be to work collaboratively with care homes, the acute hospital and community teams to ensure that residents receive the right care, at the right time in the right place.
We are looking for someone with excellent leadership, organisational and communication skills, and a strong quality improvement focus- as well as the ability to analyse and interpret data.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.
As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents – it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- A member of the integrated Neighbourhood working within their linked care homes and would tailor the support to the needs of the care home cohort using their own initiative and organisational skills to complete tasks. Visit residents’ face to face, telephone contact or Telehealth virtually based.
- the post holder will have a clinical role with responsibility for planning, managing and co-ordinating the care of people in care homes with highly complex needs and long-term conditions and will work within the Enhanced Health in care homes strategy. Ability to build relationships in care homes is essential.
Please see job description and person specification for full details
Please click here to view our Care and Compassion Day video
Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.
If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £22.00, Standard DBS check £22.00 and Enhanced DBS check £42.00.
You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £13. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.
Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.
DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.
By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.
The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here.
Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.
Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.
Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.
The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level Registered Nurse or Health Care Professional with current registration with the NMC or HCPC
- Ability to work within PGDs
- Completion of CPD module at level 6 in clinical investigation skills
- Leadership training (LEO/LPC) or equivalent experience
- Non-medical prescribing qualification V300
Desirable criteria
- Degree or module in health -related topic
- Teaching qualification
- Advanced communication module
- Ability to be able to complete DNARCPR when required.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of extensive expert professional/ clinical knowledge in Care Homes and Frameworks.
- Effective communicator able to communicate complex and highly sensitive information
- Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
- Evidence of managing staff and multidisciplinary teams
- Evidence of relevant involvement in maintaining clinical governance
- Be able to demonstrate the skill to integrate teams from a variety of backgrounds to integrate the social and health agenda
- 2 Years experience as a Band 6
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working at a senior position within a long-term condition field
- Can demonstrate assertiveness, tact, and diplomacy appropriately
- Evidence of involvement in policy and practice change
- Computer Literacy
- Modules in or experience of quality improvement
Skills
Essential criteria
- Prioritise against tight deadlines and work under pressure
- Work on own initiative
- Identify trends for analysis
- Deal with confidential information
- Work as part of the multi- disciplinary team
- Prioritise and demonstrate effective time management and organisational skills
- Actively manage gaps in rota’s due to annual leave, sickness etc.
- Influence & Motivate others
Personal
Essential criteria
- Assertiveness
- Motivation skills
- Negotiation
- Innovator
- Problem solving
- Delegation
- Conflict and problem solving
- Enthusiasm
- Flexible and mature approach to working
- Ability to persuade and influence at all levels
- Ensures that own actions support equality, diversity, rights and maintain quality.
- Ability to work within professional guidelines and code of conduct
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Faye Burke
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 951604
- Additional information
Please feel free to contact Faye Burke and come along to meet the team
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