Community Matron

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) to work as a Community Matron within Mersey Care NHS Trust within Liverpool

You will be responsible for the delivery of proactive caseload management and provide first contact care in response to acute long-term conditions and acute episodes of illness for patients in their own homes.

The Community Matron is a key role in the Community Neighbourhood Nursing Service. This service combines District Nursing , Community Matrons and Integrated Care teams.As a senior clinician, you will demonstrate a high level of professionalism and provide clinical leadership within the Integrated Community teams., As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will have an advanced clinical role with responsibility for assessing, planning, managing and co-ordinating the care of people, in their own homes and care home settings and with highly complex needs and long-term conditions within a defined caseload.

The post-holder must be educated to MSc degree level in Advanced Clinical Practice with relevant experience.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.