Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Registered Nurse
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Eligibility Notice
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.
About the Role
The Community Nursing Service delivers personalised care to housebound patients aged 18+ with complex and long-term conditions. Our aim is to support patients to remain safe, well, and independent in their chosen environment, preventing avoidable hospital admissions through proactive, needs-led care.
Responsibilities
- Working within teams aligned to Primary Care Networks, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering holistic assessment, care planning, and evaluation in partnership with patients and carers.
- Care includes palliative and end-of-life support, medication administration (including IV therapy), wound care, bladder and bowel care, and health promotion.
- You will manage a clinical caseload, undertake comprehensive assessments, and deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions to meet complex patient needs while promoting independence and long-term condition management.
Key Duties
- As a senior clinician, you will coordinate care delivery, triage referrals, and allocate work based on staff competencies, ensuring safe and effective practice.
- You will lead decision-making for complex cases, develop integrated care programmes, and represent the team within MDT and Primary Care Network meetings.
- You will play a key role in supporting and developing staff through supervision, appraisals, and clinical guidance, acting as a role model and mentor.
- You will also contribute to quality improvement, ensuring CQC standards are met, and support performance management to drive service excellence.
- In addition, you will oversee daily handovers, review care plans, and deputise for senior leaders when required.
- Ongoing professional development is essential, including completion (or working towards) the Specialist Practitioner District Nurse qualification.
- The service operates 7 days a week, 08:00–18:00, with some flexibility available.
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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.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Kirsty Zweck
- Job title: Admin Team Lead
- Email address: kirsty.zweck@nhs.net
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