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Registered Nurse

The closing date is 03 August 2025

Are you a highly motivated and dedicated Registered Nurse seeking a rewarding role where you can truly make a difference in patient care?

We are looking for dedicated Nurses to join our Community Hospitals teams across Kent. You'll oversee the holistic care provided to patients, provide leadership by maintaining clinical standards, and may take charge of the ward in the absence of senior staff. Our units predominantly provide rehabilitation and end-of-life support for palliative patients and their families.

You'll work closely with patients, families, and a multi-professional team including doctors, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists. You'll contribute to a culture of excellence and be part of a team committed to providing safe, effective services and a positive patient experience. Join our organisation and help us deliver the best care!

We have opportunities at the following locations,

• Hawkhurst Community Hospital, TN18 4PU
• Tonbridge Cottage Hospital, TN11 0NE
• Victoria Hospital, Deal, CT14 9UA
• Whitstable and Tankerton Hospital, CT5 2HN

Please indicate in the supporting statement of your application form your 1st, 2nd and 3rd preference of Hospital locations.

Driving may be required for these roles as you may be asked to travel to other sites to provide support to your community hospital colleagues if and when needed.

Main duties of the job

It's never been a better time to join our brilliant teams across Kent, with more emphasis on community-based care. Our flexible and compassionate colleagues care for patients within a community hospital setting, supporting them to leave hospital and live a happy and healthy life at home. We treat the whole person, not just the condition, through practitioner-led and therapy-focused work. Caring for people in the community requires specialist knowledge and skills, which we will develop through our excellent educational opportunities, ranging from degrees to apprenticeship schemes.

We expect you to maintain high clinical standards, use evidence-based practises, and contribute to continuous improvement. You will manage a caseload of patients with complex needs.

You'll be responsible and accountable for the holistic care provided to patients. You will carry out assessments, develop integrated care packages, support junior staff, and actively participate in a multi-professional team to ensure high quality care is provided to our patients. You will be expected to participate in 24-hour internal rotation and move to other community hospital sites to cover the needs of the service.

We welcome flexible working arrangements and offer a variety of work-life balance initiatives.

We have vacancies across our Community hospitals in Kent. If you would like to discuss this role please contact Kerenza Boulton 07392864207 or Katie Kennerell 07896464816.

About us

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

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn't visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

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 will suits us both

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Job responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

Find out more about the community difference here.

Good luck! We cant wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

Person Specification

Ability to manager

• Able to support the implementation of local and national agenda for health under the guidance of the team lead / ward manager.

Qualifications

• Registered Healthcare Professional with relevant Professional body 1st Level Nurse/ NMC Degree in a health relevant subject or willingness to complete a degree

Knowledge

• Awareness of professional issues and recent developments in the NHS Knowledge of up to date clinical practice

Skills & abilities

• Ability to organise and prioritise work, using own initiative

Personal attributes

• Ability to motivate and organise others to ensure best practice.

Ability to manage

• Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures.

Base Preference

• Please indicate your 1st, 2nd and 3rd preference of Hospital locations, list included in the advert text. Failure to complete this question correctly will delay your application being processed.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Community hospitals across Kent, tell us your preferred site

Faversham, Deal, Hawkhurst, Herne Bay, Tonbridge, Whitstable

£29,970 to £36,483 a yearper annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time

Reference number

846-7321790-CF-D

Job locations

Community hospitals across Kent, tell us your preferred site

Faversham, Deal, Hawkhurst, Herne Bay, Tonbridge, Whitstable