Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 396-779-N- 7844278-CM-JK
- Employer
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Centre House
- Town
- Sheen
- Salary
- £58,133 - £65,261 Per annum INC of HCAS (pro-rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Matron
Band 7
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
· To work as part of the locality community nursing team and wider multi-disciplinary locality team, providing advanced clinical practice, personalised care planning and care co-ordination of health, social care and other services.
· To improve the care of people with the long term conditions and complex needs, to prevent hospital admission, support timely and safe discharge and establish effective personalised care and treatment plans to support people to remain in their usual residence.
· To provide education and support to individuals and their families to promote self-care strategies and independence, and to develop multi-disciplinary informed personalised treatment and management plans for their health condition, including planning interventions for fluctuations in health status.
This is a full time community matron position within the Centre House
District Nursing team with the base being at 68 Sheen Lane.
Main duties of the job
· To provide assessment, diagnosis, individualised treatment planning, personalised case management and care co-ordination for patients with a range of complex long-term conditions whose condition is unstable and affecting their daily life.
· To improve clinical outcomes for people with long term conditions and reduce the need for these people to attend or be admitted into hospital or long-term residential care.
· To work in partnership with general practitioners, secondary care, care homes, community nursing, specialist nurses, rehabilitation services, social services and the wider multi-disciplinary locality team in proactive care planning for regular users of unplanned healthcare services.
· Provide supervision, advice and training to nurses and others in the locality team undertaking case management/ care co-ordination of complex cases.
· Support the locality nursing team manager in the development and deployment of a skilled, competent and motivated workforce, able to meet the needs of the patients on the locality team caseload.
· The post holder will act as a nursing role model.
Working for our organisation
Development and staff wellbeing
Your growth and personal happiness matters to us. After all, we can’t expect the best from you if we don’t invest in your development and nurture your wellbeing. From the moment you join us, we’re committed to fostering your professional and personal development within a supportive, empowering environment. Whether you’re just starting your career or looking to advance further, we provide you with the tools and opportunities you need to succeed. We actively support colleagues to take part in research, quality improvement and innovation, whatever their role or level in the organisation.
To support your wellbeing, we offer an extensive range of resources, including an on-site staff nursery at Kingston Hospital, wellbeing practitioners, regular wellbeing classes, dedicated staff physiotherapist, comprehensive occupational health services, 24/7 employee assistance programme, and a range of other support and activities.
We also take every opportunity to thank and recognise the work our teams do, through weekly ‘shoutouts’ and patient feedback, monthly and annual awards.
Wherever you work across our organisation, we look forward to welcoming you.
At KRFT we are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements. Applicants are encouraged to discuss any flexibility they may need during the recruitment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached JD and PS with a full breakdown of Job Purpose, Key Roles and Full list of responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse NMC - RN1 ,RNA with current NMC registration
- 1st Level Degree
- Non-Medical Prescribing (V300) qualified or achieved within 12 months
- Post Graduate qualification in appropriate long term condition area
- Advanced Clinical Assessment Skills Module
- Up to date professional portfolio demonstrating evidence of reflective practice
- Mentorship or teaching qualification equivalent to ENB 998 / work place assessor
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of specialist clinical expertise within a relevant area such as COPD, Heart Failure
- MSc Advanced Practice (or working towards)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of case management, case finding systems and care co-ordination
- An understanding of the wider NHS and social care contexts
- Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and DOLS
- Demonstrate an understanding of clinical governance
- Extended and advanced clinical knowledge base
- Understanding of Safeguarding Adults & Children
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post-graduate experience in a relevant area working with people with long term conditions
- Extensive post-graduate experience in a role undertaking assessments of complex needs
- Extensive post-graduate experience in a role undertaking assessments of complex needs
- Experience of working across professional boundaries
- Demonstrable Experience of clinical leadership
- Clinical experience of caring for people with cognitive impairment
- Experience of mentoring students
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit evaluation to improve healthcare
Skills
Essential criteria
- Clinical Examination Skills, Physical Examination and assessment skills (top to toe).
- Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor, seeking to instil and develop the confidence of others.
- Ability to autonomously prioritise, coordinate caseload working to and work to deadlines and across boundaries
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to effectively delegate activities to appropriate staff
- Ability to effectively negotiate on patient management and promote self-care and across boundaries
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Excellent problem solving skills to identify and resolve clinical issues
- IT literate with ability to use databases and other software packages and digital solutions with patients and in the operation of the service
- Able to produce well written and timely clinical records and service reports
- Ability to travel to multiple sites; car driver or competent cyclist
Desirable criteria
- Motivational Interviewing skills
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Reliable, empathetic, approachable, understanding, non-judgemental and tolerant
- Demonstrates high ethical and professional standards
- Able to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Committed to lifelong learning and achieving full compliance with the competencies and standards of this role
- Has a positive attitude to change and is prepared to work flexibly to meet the need of people and the service
- Willingness to undertake training and competencies for additional clinical interventions to support service development
- Willingness to learn and implememt new ways of working, including using digital solutions with patients and in the operation of the service
- Confident, self motivated and energetic
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Moloney
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07392 288 951
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
South West London Recruitment Hub
- Telephone
- 07553093660
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