Advanced Practitioner Chronic Pain; Kent Prisons

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health trust in England seeks an Advanced Practitioner for Chronic Pain to lead clinical care in secure settings, including prisons. The role requires an MSc in pain management and extensive clinical experience. Candidates must hold a UK driving license and have strong leadership and communication skills. This position offers a salary between £55,690 to £62,682 annually, pro rata. Interested applicants who are currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive postgraduate clinical experience in pain management.
• Experience in delivering health care in secure environments is crucial.
• Demonstrable leadership skills and experience managing service-level changes.

Responsibilities

• Direct patient care in clinics and secure settings.
• Lead the delivery of clinical care within Kent Prisons.
• Develop and implement community clinical guidelines.

Skills

High standard of clinical skills

Expert communication skills

Expert teaching skills

Quality Benchmarking

Education

MSc in pain management

NMC or HCPC registered healthcare professional

NMC/AHP recorded Independent Prescriber

Job description

Advanced Practitioner Chronic Pain; Kent Prisons

The closing date is 28 December 2025

The community chronic pain service supports people with chronic pain to achieve long‑term self‑management, empowering people to live well. The post holder will take a lead role within the service, demonstrating highly specialised clinical practice across the 4 pillars of advance practice and leading the delivery of clinical care within Kent Prisons.

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.

Main duties of the job

This patient facing clinical role includes direct patient care in community clinics and secure settings and supporting others within the service. In liaison with the clinical lead and clinical service managers they will be expected to initiate, develop and implement community policies and clinical guidelines to achieve the service key objectives. The post holder provides clinical leadership to the Integrated Musculoskeletal service team working within the secure environment.

Due to the need to work across multiple localities on the same day the post holder must be a driver with access to a car.

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 suit us both.

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Job responsibilities

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non‑EU country) 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 [e-mail], 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.

It is important to us that all our staff are aligned to our Values and in particular the behaviours we expect from KCHFT managers.

With this in mind, as part of the selection process for this position you will be asked to complete two other activities in addition to the competency‑based interview that you will be invited to. This extended selection process is designed to assess your management style, and the specific details of the exercises will be given if you are successfully shortlisted.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #come to community.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NMC or HCPC registered healthcare professional
• MSc in pain management
• NMC/AHP recorded Independent Prescriber
• RCGP Addiction/Substance Misuse training
• Counselling Skills

Experience

• Extensive postgraduate clinical experience
• Delivering health care in secure environments
• Significant Pain Management or related experience at Band 7
• Experience in working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary environment.
• Demonstrable experience in clinical leadership including training others and managing change at service level
• Budget management and business planning
• Research experience
• Evidence of managing complex medication issues
• Presentations at National level

Knowledge

• Demonstrates expert knowledge and skills regarding the principles of pain management.
• Key issues and developments in chronic pain management both nationally and internationally
• Key issues in delivering healthcare in secure settings
• Knowledge of current NHS issues and initiatives and their implications for the chronic pain service.

Skills & abilities

• High standard of clinical skills demonstrating complex analysis and judgement.
• Expert teaching skills (informal & formal) and leading through empowerment, role modelling to inspire others
• Expert communication skills, including use of information technology, report writing and presentation skills
• Quality Benchmarking
• Publishing
• Evidence of ability to integrate evidence‑based research/guidelines into development of local pathways of care

Personal attributes

• Full UK Driving Licence with a car

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

£55,690 to £62,682 a year pro rata, per annum