Advanced Practitioner Chronic Pain; Kent Prisons | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for an Advanced Practitioner Chronic Pain post across Kent Prisons. The role leads highly specialised clinical practice across four pillars of advanced practice and drives delivery of care within the prison and community settings.

The post holder will provide direct patient care, support service colleagues, and develop clinical guidelines in liaison with the clinical lead.

Qualifications

• Advanced practitioner role across four pillars of advanced practice in chronic pain services.
• Lead delivery of clinical care within Kent Prisons and community settings.
• Provide high-level clinical leadership and policy/guideline development.
• Must be able to travel across multiple localities and have access to a car.

Responsibilities

• Direct patient care in community clinics and secure settings.
• Provide clinical leadership to the Integrated Musculoskeletal service within the secure environment.
• Develop and implement community policies and clinical guidelines to achieve service objectives.

Job description

Advanced Practitioner Chronic Pain; Kent Prisons | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

Company: Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

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.

The community chronic pain service supports people with chronic pain to achieve long-term self-management, empowering them 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.

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.

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 currently undertaking a significant programme of transformation 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

This advert closes on Sunday 15 Nov 2026

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust