Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Community Staff Nurse
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We’re looking for compassionate, skilled nurses to join our West Kent Urgent Care Service, delivering rapid two-hour crisis response to patients in their own homes. Our mission is to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, support early discharge, and provide high-quality unscheduled care for people with urgent or end-of-life needs. The service operates 24/7, 365 days a year, offering true continuity of care.
As part of our team, you’ll use an extensive clinical skill set to provide hospital-level treatment in the community. This includes IV therapy, end-of-life symptom management via syringe drivers, catheterisation, phlebotomy, wound care, risk assessment, and essential nursing interventions. You’ll play a vital role in supporting acutely unwell patients who might otherwise require admission, ensuring they receive safe, timely, and compassionate care at home.
Working collaboratively with colleagues across health and social care, you’ll help deliver a responsive, patient-centred service that makes a real difference to people during moments of crisis.
If you’re motivated, clinically confident, and passionate about delivering high-quality urgent care in the community, we’d love to welcome you to our team.
Role
As a key member of our community nursing team, you’ll deliver high-quality, holistic care to patients with a wide range of needs. Your role will include:
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- Completing holistic assessments and planning, implementing, and evaluating personalised care
- Developing integrated care plans in partnership with patients and their families
- Ordering equipment and making timely onward referrals to support safe, effective care
- Supervising and supporting junior staff, including HCAs and students, to help them grow and develop
- Working collaboratively within a multi-professional team to deliver coordinated, patient-centred care
- Carrying out a range of competent clinical interventions, recognising deterioration, and taking prompt, appropriate action
- Managing a daily caseload of patients with complex needs within your speciality
- Supporting duty responsibilities, including triage and prioritisation of referrals
This role is ideal for a nurse who enjoys autonomy, thrives in a supportive team, and is committed to delivering excellent community care.
Additional Working Pattern: 7 days a week, long days and night duty
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this, we need outstanding people who share our values: compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive, Excellent.
We know a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
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As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that suits us both.
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For further details/informal visits contact:
- Name: Lucy Dewar
- Job title: Operational Manager
- Email address: lucy.dewar@nhs.net
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