Community Matron: Sponsorship Available

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Job summary

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our well-established Community Nursing teams in Bracknell as a Community Matron.

Working as part of an integrated team, you will proactively manage a complex caseload of high-risk patients, using your advanced clinical skills, clinical reasoning and autonomous decision-making to deliver high-quality, personalised care.

You will play a key role in supporting patients with multiple long-term conditions, promoting shared decision-making and proactive self-management to improve health outcomes, quality of life and reduce avoidable hospital admissions.

As a senior member of the community nursing team, you will work closely with colleagues across the wider multidisciplinary team and other services to coordinate care and ensure patients receive the right support at the right time.

You will take a lead role in managing patients with complex needs, accessing appropriate services and using your assessment and independent prescribing skills to support effective clinical management.

You will also have an important role in supporting and developing junior colleagues, sharing your expertise and contributing to the delivery of high-quality community nursing care.

You will be NMC registered, hold a Non-Medical Prescribing qualification at Level 6/7 and significant community nursing experience.

If you are an experienced senior nurse looking to make a real difference to patients in their own communities, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to be part of our well-established Community Nursing team in Bracknell, as a Community Matron.

The post holder will work full time within an integrated community nursing team to proactively manage a complex caseload of high-risk patients, applying advanced clinical skills, clinical reasoning and practising autonomously.

The post holder will promote shared decision making with individuals regarding their care plan and encourage proactive self-management of long-term conditions with the aim of avoiding crisis resulting in unplanned hospital admission.

The post holder will work be fully integrated into the locality community nursing team, working with other stake holders to manage complex patients, as well as the wider multi-disciplinary team in a variety of settings to improve health outcomes and quality of life for patients with multiple chronic diseases.

The role requires the applicant to take a lead role in managing patients with complex needs to avoid hospital admission and access services as required. The post holder will be a senior nurse supporting community nursing using established independent prescribing and advanced assessment skills, upskilling junior members of staff and supporting scheduled caseloads.

Person Specification

Education, qualifications or training

Essential

  • Registered General Nurse
  • Post registration Advanced Clinical Study e.g. diagnostic reasoning
  • Non-medical Prescriber Level 6/7
  • Current NMC Registration
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Experience of teaching, mentoring, supervising
  • Qualification in teaching and assessing

Desirable

  • To have undertaken study at master’s level or willing to do so

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Substantial post registration
  • Experience of working in primary or community health setting
  • Experience of complex case management
  • Extensive knowledge of older people’s and long-term conditions agenda
  • Demonstrate a high level of clinical skills
  • Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge and experience of clinical examination, history taking, pharmacology, pathophysiology, etc.
  • Experience of instigating and interpreting investigations and initiating appropriate plans of care for patients
  • Experience of promoting self-care
  • Cultural awareness
  • Experience of multi-agency working across service interfaces

Desirable

  • Evidence of NHS structure and leadership initiatives

Knowledge, skills and abilities

Essential

  • Research awareness skills
  • Evidence of undertaking Audit and developing action plans
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Able to communicate highly complex information situations including where there are barriers to understanding
  • Ability to lead and participate in the integration of multi-agency services
  • Able to analyse and use information to inform practice and service needs
  • Computer literate
  • Demonstrates motivation, reliability and commitment to team working
  • Ability to prescribe/de-prescribe within competency framework

Additional Requirements

Essential

  • Must have a UK driving licence with access to a car for work purposes
  • Ability to drive to multiple sites across Berkshire

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

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 26 August 2026

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