Are you looking for a brand new challenge that will utilise your advanced nursing skills, with great opportunities for professional development?

We are recruiting a Care Home Matron work in Peacehaven in close partnership and with Primary Care Network (PCN), care homes, and local care providers.

Main duties of the job

These are now well established roles, ideal for enthusiastic, autonomous, self-motivated, confident, and proactive practitioners. The successful candidates will work as key components of an integrated team, liaising with our PCN and care home partners, with a focus on delivering the PCN Directed Enhanced Service: Enhanced Health in Care Homes specification.

The post holders will need to link in with wider SCFT services, and form strong links both internally with our Community Nursing teams and externally with the wider PCN teams, care homes, and medicine optimisation services.

They will undertake advanced clinical assessment, needs identification, planning, case management and coordination of care for individuals with highly complex needs and co-existing long term conditions. They will work proactively to reduce unplanned hospital admissions, and facilitate discharge from hospital for care home residents identified through weekly check-in meetings with the care homes and the dedicated PCN team.

We offer a supportive working environment, and encourage all our staff to develop their careers through both in-house and external training opportunities.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.

For any informal conversations/visits please contact Claire Ellis, Clinical Service Manager

Claire.ellis13@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or Professional Registration - Baseline

Essential

• RN/RMN first level Nurse (Adults)
• Advance Physical Assessment course Masters Level or willing to work towards at earliest opportunity
• Non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards at earliest opportunity
• Mentoring course or equivalent / practice assessor
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Qualifications and/or Professional Registration - Physical Health Nurse

Desirable

• Specialist Practice Qualification (District Nurse) or equivalent qualification
• Post graduate level degree or equivalent
• Masters Qualification or willing to work towards at earliest opportunity

Qualifications and/or Professional Registration - Dementia Specialist Nurse

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Masters Qualification or willing to work towards at earliest opportunity

Desirable

• Advance assessment course and 2 years at an advance level experience to define competencies set at practitioner level 6 (DH)

Experience

Essential

• Clinical experience five years or more
• Case management experience
• Leadership Experience
• Evidence of effective team leadership and organisational skills

Desirable

• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Evidence of ability to work with a multidisciplinary team

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence of up-to-date based knowledge and skills, particularly in older people's issues
• Evidence of ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care
• Evidence of professional development and knowledge
• Able to analyse complex and challenging situations and problem solve as necessary
• Evidence of ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care working autonomously and collaboratively with system partners

Other

Essential

• Must hold current UK driving licence

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Anchor Healthcare Centre

Meridian Way

Peacehaven

BN10 8NF

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

150-OM1107-EAS-A