Rapid Response Matron

Main area Urgent Community Response Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Work shift patterns to cover core hours of 08:00 to 21:00 including weekend working) Job
-TG416-ACS-A

Site Lotus House, Northampton Town Northamptonshire Salary £55,690 - £62,682 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/01/2026 08:00 Interview date 11/02/2026

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Paramedic to take on a senior role in this fast-paced, thriving and challenging community based Urgent Community Response Team which has been delivering healthcare at home in Northamptonshire for 25 years. We pride ourselves on our passion for delivering quality care to patients in their own homes, avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating rapid discharge from hospital to enable patients to return to independent living by working in collaboration with all community services and Social Care providers.

Our Urgent Community Response Team are innovative in their clinical practice, continuously developing new patient pathways with partner organisations and using remote monitoring equipment to manage a Virtual Ward. Their focus on admission avoidance and patient flow has been instrumental in ensuring patients can remain at home whenever possible. Recently to major focus has been on increasing our rapid response capability and opening up pathways with the Ambulance Trust and on developing our virtual ward.

The clinical team include both nurses, doctors and therapy staff.

We are seeking a dynamic, flexible, and experienced Nurse Practitioner or Paramedic with experience across a range of health conditions, including acute, long-term frail and elderly, who will be able to support the on-going development of our Community based Team.

The post holder will be confident in providing effective operational leadership to the team and work well under pressure. They must possess clinical assessment skills, be a confident prescriber, able to problem solve and think on their feet.

The successful candidate would also be required to lead and co-ordinate compassionate, high quality and evidence-based care by supporting the Clinical Lead and working in partnership with the ACP's AHP Leads, other Rapid Response Matrons and our Virtual Clinical Care Team, as well as system partners, including the two acute hospitals in the county, the ambulance provider, 111 and the Voluntary Sector, to ensure the safe and effective delivery of the service throughout its operational times which also include out of hours.

The candidate will require highly effective communication skills to ensure collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, including the therapy service within the Urgent Community Response function, and provide strong operational leadership presence that promotes autonomy and development of the workforce.

If you are an experienced practitioner working in urgent emergency care and are flexible, self-motivated, and a passionate individual with skills to develop, inspire and lead a team whilst maintaining high standards through effective governance, please apply for this role.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.

We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

• NMC Adult Nursing Qualification or HCPC Paramedic Qualification

• Non medical prescribing or working towards
• Experience in…