Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Healthcare Assistant
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Please note: 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.
Join our dedicated Community Hospitals Team and play a vital role in delivering high-quality, compassionate care to patients within a supportive healthcare environment. Based at one of our community hospitals, you will provide both clinical and non-clinical care, helping patients maintain their independence, wellbeing, and dignity.
Key Duties
- Provide personal care, including washing, dressing, and hygiene support.
- Undertake catheter care, including changing catheter bags and catheters.
- Deliver mouth care and stoma care in line with care plans.
- Support patients with nutrition, hydration, and fluid balance monitoring.
- Perform blood glucose monitoring and calibrate blood glucose equipment.
- Carry out MRSA screening swabs and manage clinical specimens.
- Complete risk assessments, including falls, nutrition, hydration, and skin integrity assessments.
- Administer delegated subcutaneous injections (e.g. insulin) and undertake venepuncture.
- Perform ECGs, bladder scanning, urinalysis, and simple wound care, including post-surgical wound management.
- Use aseptic non-touch technique (ANTT) and adhere to infection prevention standards.
- Communicate effectively with patients, families, carers, and colleagues, adapting communication to individual needs.
- Obtain consent and involve patients in decisions about their care.
- Maintain patient dignity, privacy, confidentiality, and respect for cultural and religious needs.
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective care.
- Support registered practitioners in implementing and evaluating care plans.
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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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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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sabrina Darko
- Job title: Matron
- Email address: sabrina.darko@nhs.net
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