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Job summary

Main area
Community Services
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
  • Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
236-BCO-NM363-25
Employer
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bury Community Services
Town
Bury
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust logo

Community Matron

Band 6

Job overview

Join Our Dynamic Integrated Neighbourhood Team

Are you a dedicated healthcare professional passionate about delivering exceptional care? We are seeking a motivated Community Matron to join our highly skilled Integrated Neighbourhood Team.

What We Offer:

  • The opportunity to make a real difference within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment
  • Support from experienced District Nurse Leads and ongoing professional development
  • A rewarding role working with a diverse population with complex needs and long-term conditions

Your Role:
As a key member of our team, you'll provide high-quality, proactive care tailored to the needs of your designated neighbourhood population. Utilizing your specialist skills in assessment, planning, and implementation, you'll deliver person-centred care that makes a positive impact.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Primary and Secondary care clinicians, hospital teams, voluntary organisations, and other professionals
  • Ensure the right care is delivered in the right place, by the right professionals
  • Share caseloads within the multidisciplinary team to maximise efficiency and patient outcomes
  • Demonstrate leadership, teamwork, delegation, and excellent care planning
  • Manage medication, health, and case coordination for individuals with complex needs

Ideal Candidate:

  • Proven expertise in care planning, assessment, and coordination
  • Strong leadership and teamworking skills
  • Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
  • Committed to delivering compassionate, high-standard care

Join us and be part of a dedicated team committed to improving community health and well-being.

Apply today and make a difference in your community.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk   

Person specification

Qualification, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
  • Nursing degree or equivalent
  • Clinical skills or a commitment to undertake within 12 months of appointment
  • Evidence of recent CPD
  • Commitment to innovative working and new developments
  • Developed essential empathetic communication skills
  • Ability to develop long lasting sustainable professional relationships
  • A willingness to undertake the V300 non-medical prescribing course within 18 months of appointment
  • IT skills
Desirable criteria
  • V150 non-medical prescribing qualification
  • V300 non-medical prescribing
  • Mentorship qualification or equivalent
  • Community experience
  • Evidence of working with patients with long term conditions

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Desirable criteria
  • Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardFair Train work experience quality standard - gold standardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoWorkplace Wellbeing Charter LogoArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerTime to changeStep into healthGM Good Employment Charter

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Katy Alcock
Job title
Senior Directorate Manager – Integrated Care
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0161 778 3463
Additional information

Jessica Dugdale

Assistant Director of Nursing (Adults), Bury Community Services

[email protected]

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