Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Night Nurse
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At this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses
About the Role
Join an innovative and responsive service that makes a real difference when patients need urgent support most. The East Kent Night Nursing Service delivers specialist care to patients in their own homes overnight, providing urgent clinical interventions that cannot safely wait until the following day. Supporting people across East Kent, the team responds to referrals from NHS 111, South East Coast Ambulance Service, Out of Hours GPs, and directly from patients, relatives and carers via our Local Referral Unit.
We focus on delivering high-quality care. As part of the wider Urgent Care Services, we help people remain safely at home, reducing avoidable hospital admissions and supporting timely hospital discharge. Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, we believe home is often the best place for recovery.
We work alongside East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust to develop virtual wards, enabling patients with acute respiratory conditions and long-term illnesses to receive monitoring and clinical care at home. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking service that combines compassionate nursing, integrated working and innovative technology to improve community healthcare.
Key Responsibilities
- Play a key role in triaging overnight referrals
- Undertake telephone assessments
- Determine clinical urgency
- Allocate visits
- Signpost patients to the most appropriate services when required
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate holistic care for patients with a range of urgent and complex needs
- Undertake clinical interventions including catheterisation, intravenous medication administration, syringe driver management and verification of expected death
- Contribute to integrated care planning, service development and multidisciplinary working to achieve the best outcomes for patients
- Support junior staff
- Contribute to quality improvement initiatives
- Help shape future service delivery
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About You
This is a varied and rewarding opportunity for a motivated nurse who enjoys autonomous practice, clinical decision-making and delivering outstanding patient-centred care. Following a comprehensive induction, you will work independently and often as a lone practitioner. While experience in community or hospice nursing is desirable, we are equally interested in nurses who are confident, adaptable and passionate about high-quality care in a dynamic urgent care environment. If you thrive on variety, value professional autonomy and want to make a meaningful difference every night, we would love to hear from you.
Additional Working Pattern
Night Hours, including weekends
Integration Notice
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.
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About Us
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.
We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.
We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Renee Dunford
- Job title: Business Support Manager
- Email address: renee.dunford@nhs.net
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