Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Wound Care Nurse
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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 or working on the Staff Bank within these organisations. Nursing and AHP vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses/AHPs.
We are seeking a Band 6 Wound Clinic Team Leader to join our Tissue Viability and Wound Therapy Service, providing high-quality, evidence-based wound care to patients attending Medway Community Healthcare wound clinics.
The successful candidate will work as part of a specialised multidisciplinary team, assessing patient needs, developing and evaluating personalised care plans, and delivering appropriate wound treatment, prescribing, advice and support to promote healing and improve outcomes.
You will support the effective day-to-day management of wound clinics, assist the Senior Wound Therapist, and lead workload allocation during short periods of absence. The role includes providing leadership, supervision and development support to Healthcare Assistants, students and visitors, ensuring safe, compassionate and high-quality care aligned with current evidence and best practice.
If you are an experienced clinician with excellent leadership and communication skills, we would love to hear from you.
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- Assess, treat and monitor patients attending wound clinics, delivering evidence-based wound care and evaluating treatment outcomes.
- Conduct comprehensive wound assessments and develop individualised care plans in collaboration with patients and the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide education, advice and support to patients, families and carers to promote wound healing, self-management and health improvement.
- Communicate effectively with GPs, community services, care homes, hospitals and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated patient care.
- Organise and prepare clinic sessions, prioritising workloads and managing appointments to meet patient needs efficiently.
Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.
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.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Katie Hajittofis-Chinn
- Job title: Wound Clinic Team Lead
- Email address: katie.hajittofis-chinn@nhs.net
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