Job summary
We are seeking dynamic, compassionate, and highly visible clinical leaders to oversee high standards of patient care and safety.
Post 1
You will provide compassionate, values-led leadership to clinical teams across the single point of access, urgent community response service, same day district nursing, virtual wards and the evening and night nursing service
The Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT) is a national initiative that provide urgent care to people in their homes which helps to avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. Our dedicated team will address the urgent needs of patients in their own homes or care settings. The team will attend the patient within 2 hours of referral.
Post 2
The Hospital to Home Matron would be expected to provide compassionate, values-led leadership to clinical teams across frailty front of house, the integrated discharge service and intermediate care, supporting collaboration and integration of teams to ensure the best outcomes for patients.
The role would be focused on improving care for older people with complex, multi-morbidity conditions, bridging hospital and community settings to transform frailty pathways, reduce avoidable admissions, and facilitate safe discharges.
- Interview Date Tuesday 14 July 2026
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
Main duties of the job
- Ensure the highest standards of patient care and safety
- Monitor standards of clinical practice
- Ensure a safe and comfortable environment for patients
- Promote a patient focused approach to patient care
- Manage HR related issues with the service
- Contribute to the delivery of the Board's cost improvement programme
- Support clinical supervision and professional development
- As part of the senior leadership team within the Board contribute to shaping the services
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
Post 1
The position emphasises admission avoidance through rapid response assessments and hospital-at-home interventions, providing patients with alternatives to hospital admission.
This is a pivotal role focused on strengthening clinical governance, and supporting our teams to deliver safe, effective, and person-centred services.
As Matron, you will act as a key professional leader, championing quality improvement, staff training and development fostering positive cultures, and ensuring operational excellence within a fast-paced and highly rewarding environment.
This role presents an exciting chance to utilise your leadership and clinical expertise in shaping the future of our evolving community services. With a focus on integrated care, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring patients receive comprehensive support in the comfort of their homes.
If you are creative, community-focused, and ready to make a significant impact on patient care, we encourage you to apply!
Key Responsibilities
- Visible Leadership: Maintain an accessible, authoritative presence in the community, acting as a key point of contact for patients, staff and families
- Clinical Excellence: Lead on quality improvements, infection control, and clinical audits
- Team Management: Support the development, supervision, and wellbeing of nursing staff and multidisciplinary teams
- Operational Flow: Collaborate with the senior leadership team to manage capacity, service transformation, and patient safety
- The Matron will have 24 hour accountability for the service, they must ensure appropriate systems and processes are in place to ensure safety and effective care at all times
- The Matron will provide strong and visible leadership to the team
- The Matron will lead on the delivery of quality indicators
- The Matron will play an integral role in driving service improvement through the Urgent and emergency care Emergency Department Quality Improvement work
- Admission Avoidance: Actively work within healthcare services to facilitate admission avoidance, implementing strategies to manage patient conditions effectively at home or in the community
- Oversee patient care, ensuring a holistic approach to meeting the needs of patients within their homes
Post 2
In this pivotal role, you'll champion high-quality, personalised care predominantly for older people living with frailty, leading with compassion, confidence, and vision
Newcastle Hospitals is developing services to deliver Neighbourhood care with local system partners. We want our patients to access the care they need, when they need it whether that is at home, in the community or in hospital. We want to develop joined up services and pathways that operate seamlessly across hospital and community boundaries, where professionals work flexibly and in partnership with colleagues to meet the holistic health and social care needs of our patients
This is an opportunity to shape the future of care for older people across services including. This pivotal role in the integrated frailty team, you will manage the following service from a nursing and therapy perspective.
You will be part of a close-knit leadership team, committed to delivering excellence and innovation in community care.
If you are creative, community-focused, and ready to make a significant impact on patient care, in line with the 10 year plan we encourage you to apply!
Key Responsibilities
- Clinical Leadership: Providing visible, compassionate, and expert clinical leadership to nursing staff across front and back of house and intermediate care
- Pathway Transformation: Overseeing the patient journey from the Emergency Department through to discharge, ensuring comprehensive geriatric assessments
- Multi-disciplinary Collaboration: Working alongside geriatricians, therapists, GPs, and social care teams to provide coordinated care
- Visible Leadership: Maintain an accessible, authoritative presence in the community, acting as a key point of contact for patients, staff and families
- Clinical Excellence: Lead on quality improvements, infection control, and clinical audits
- Team Management: Support the development, supervision, and wellbeing of nursing staff and multidisciplinary teams
- Operational Flow: Collaborate with the senior leadership team to manage capacity, service transformation, and patient safety
- Be the senior nursing voice across multidisciplinary teams, setting the tone for outstanding, evidence-based care
- Provide expert clinical, professional, and operational leadership
- Champion nursing development and professional growth?
- Drive the safe, effective delivery of home-based care for older people living with frailty
- Contribute to strategic planning, service redesign, and exciting new projects
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- Maintain and improve professional knowledge, skills and competence
SKILLS
Essential
- Good IT skills
- Report writing skills
- Effectively manage the directorate nursing resource
- Appropriate clinical skills
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Significant post registration experience, some of which must be at Band 7
- Significant experience at a senior level of managing nursing / clinical teams
- Audit / research experience
- Evidence of achievements in current post
- Evidence of proven leadership skills in relation to professional accountability
- Evidence of significant experience of safeguarding adults / children
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch)
- Current NMC registration
- Able to demonstrate academic achievement at post-graduate/masters level or significant demonstrable experience in speciality at Matron level
- Willing to undertake full Master's Degree within an agreed timescale
- Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements for mentorship relevant to role
Desirable
- Leadership / management qualification
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
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trustwide
317 Trustwide
NE1 4LP
United Kingdom
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