Community Matron

Job summary
Are you an experienced nursing leader with a passion for delivering high-quality community care and developing services that help patients receive treatment closer to home?

We are seeking a Community Matron to join our Community Referral Hub / Single Point of Access, providing senior clinical and professional leadership across Unplanned Care Services, with a particular focus on our community antibiotic services, including IVOPAT and COPAT.

As the operational clinical lead for these services, you will provide continuity across referral, allocation, treatment, monitoring, escalation and discharge. You will actively manage and coordinate the antibiotic caseload, participate in weekly patient reviews and multidisciplinary meetings, and lead quality assurance relating to antibiotic practice, procedures and standards. Working closely with specialist consultants, you will ensure medical decisions requiring infection expertise are made promptly and that patients receive safe, coordinated care outside hospital.

Main duties of the job

• Provide senior clinical and professional leadership across the Community Referral Hub / Single Point of Access and associated unplanned care services, promoting safe, effective and compassionate nursing care.
• Provide specialist nursing advice and clinical oversight for patients with complex needs, supporting staff to recognise deterioration, manage risk and seek appropriate medical input.
• Lead and oversee community antibiotic services, including caseload coordination, treatment monitoring, weekly patient reviews and multidisciplinary meetings, ensuring decisions requiring infection expertise are escalated promptly to the specialist consultant.
• Lead clinical quality and governance, overseeing relevant incidents, complaints, risks and patient feedback, and translating findings into learning and measurable improvements.
• Lead service improvement and pathway development, using evidence, audit, patient experience and performance data to identify priorities and evaluate change.
• Support effective workforce and resource management, working with operational managers on staffing, recruitment, retention, staff wellbeing, absence management and budgets within the role's remit.
• Maintain professional standards and accountability, ensuring accurate records, compliance with Trust policies and NMC requirements.

About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we would want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust. They tell us it is a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.

Details

• Pay scheme: Agenda for Change
• Band: Band 8a
• Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 229-IC-8352359
• Closing date: 04 November 2026

Essential criteria

• NMC registration
• Significant experience at band 7 or band 8a
• Evidence of wider NHS experience
• Evidence of extensive communication skills/challenging conversations
• Degree in Health related subject
• Evidence of professional development
• Evidence of leadership of nursing teams/MDT
• Ability to manage own workload and prioritise
• Ability to manage the demands of ensuring high quality care and operational pressures
• Participation in clinical audit and service development

Desirable criteria

• Masters Level study
• Advanced clinical skills
• Leadership and management qualification
• Knowledge of neighbourhood plan
• Experience of working within urgent community response, admission avoidance, or discharge pathways
• Experience obtained in more than one clinical setting
• Give examples of capacity and demand in community services
• Wider clinical experience within the NHS
• Experience of patient flow and impact on wider system

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.

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

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.

Employer contact
General Manager: Lisa Yarwood, Lisa.Yarwood@wvt.nhs.uk, 07538516329