Rapid Response Nurse/Paramedic | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Greater London seeks a Rapid Response Nurse/Paramedic. This role involves conducting initial assessments and follow-ups with patients in their homes. Candidates must be able to drive and have strong clinical skills. The position offers development opportunities in a supportive environment, with a focus on work-life balance and collaborative practice. Essential requirements include NMC or HCPC registration and excellent communication skills. The advert closes on 14 Dec 2025.

Benefits

NHS benefits package

Lease car option

Continued Professional Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must possess a full UK driving licence and car.
• Current NMC or HCPC registration.
• Strong clinical knowledge and assessment skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Attend to patients for Rapid Response initial assessments.
• Develop clinical skills and holistic approaches.
• Supervise junior staff and students.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong clinical knowledge

Assessment skills

Strong work ethic

Job description

Rapid Response Nurse/Paramedic

Exciting opportunity!

We are looking for a Nurse/Paramedic with a passion for patient care, who want to develop their skills and push themselves outside the normal boundaries of their practice and who have a real drive to make sure their patients receives best treatment possible. Excellent communication skills and a strong work ethic are essential and in return we offer development opportunities and a better work life balance than many traditional nursing and paramedic roles.

You will be part of a community team where your ability to make clinical decisions will aid patient recovery. This will include having a direct link to the patient’s discharging medical and therapy team for liaison and support where necessary and with the patients GP or other health care professional to prevent hospital re‑admission. Virtual ward facilitates early discharge.

External referrals mainly come from GPs and the London Ambulance Service. Rapid Response service to provides a initial holistic assessment at home within two hours, offer tests such as blood and urine sampling and developing and initialising treatment plans.

You will provide assessments, interventions and will make clinical decisions. You will be expected to work autonomously whilst drawing assistance from other colleagues.

We encourage any Nurses and Paramedics with an acute background to apply as we value experience as much as academic achievement.

• Must possess a full UK driving licence and car
• To deliver nursing care to patients within their home, that is technically excellent, expressly personal and ensures patients and carers dignity is enhanced.
• To undertake highly skilled and complex nursing activities directly related to the assessment, planning and evaluation of patient care.
• To make skilled clinical decisions and communicate the rationale clearly.
• Management of complex patient care ensuring that risks are adequately assessed, minimised, translated into appropriate care plans and reported across the organisation as appropriate.
• To ensure that each patient has a comprehensive assessment of need, including risk assessment and that their care is culturally sensitive and addresses issues of diversity.
• To provide health information and health promotion for patients and their families on the caseload including formal pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with chronic obstructive airways disease.
• To work closely with the acute trust, GP, nursing and therapy colleagues to prevent inappropriate hospital admissions.
• Attend regular MDT meetings with acute services, therapists, social services, care homes and GP Practices.
• To evaluate your practice through audit and outcome measures with support of senior colleagues when required. To participate in Quality Improvement work.
• To work with the acute hospitals to prevent admission to hospital such as in‑reaching.
• To maintain and develop specific departmental duties as designated by service lead.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICs, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICs infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

As a Band 6 Rapid Response you will:

• Attend to patients to do a Rapid Response initial assessment and for follow up visits.
• Develop your clinical skills into a more well‑rounded holistic approach to patient care.
• Develop new skills outside of your normal scope of practice including skills from Paramedicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational therapy tasks.
• Gain experience in day to day management of the team including taking handovers and helping to make treatment plans.
• Supervise junior staff and students
• Attend in‑service training and have Continued Professional Development opportunities

Enfield Rapid Access Service works 7 days a week from 8am until 10pm. You will be expected to work weekends and bank holidays although these will be distributed throughout the team. Shift patterns are made up of:

• 08:00 – 20:00
• 10:00 – 22:00
• Currently in review for potential introduction for 7.5 hr shift pattern - 5 days per week.

In return for your skills and dedication to the team and our patients we endeavour to provide:

• A supportive environment to learn and develop your new skills.
• Working with a MDT to push your knowledge beyond normal clinical practice.
• Regular training above and beyond statutory and mandatory training.
• An emphasis on a good work life balance including meal breaks to enable staff to perform at their best.
• An experienced and supportive management team who listen and act on your feedback, and who all have a clinical background with community experience.
• The opportunity to deliver training sessions.
• A full NHS benefits package plus a lease car option.
• Agenda for change pay scale band 6 + outer London weighting and unsocial hours enhancements where appropriate.

For this post, the following are essential:

• Excellent communication skills
• Strong clinical knowledge and assessment skills
• Current NMC or HCPC registration
• Strong work ethic
• Ability to drive, a current UK driving licence and access to a car for work

This post is a specialist community role and may not be suitable for everyone. We would strongly encourage potential applicants to call for an informal discussion about the role and to consider arranging to visit the service.

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025