Community Clinical Nurse Specialist | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused health trust in Ashford is looking for a dedicated Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist to join their Community Nursing team. The role involves providing advanced clinical support for patients with complex long-term conditions. Ideal candidates will have experience in clinical leadership and managing complex cases. The trust promotes flexible working arrangements and is committed to high standards of patient care.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Career development opportunities

Support for candidates with disabilities

Qualifications

• Experience in managing complex patients and providing advanced nursing support.
• Preferred experience in long-term conditions, end of life, or wound care.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical nursing support for complex long-term conditions.
• Assess and implement individual treatment plans as an autonomous practitioner.
• Support management of complex patients and provide clinical leadership.

Skills

Advanced clinical nursing

Assessment and treatment of complex long-term conditions

Clinical leadership

Education

Specialist Practitioner District Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

Now is the time to be part of a healthcare transformation. The new NHS 10-Year Plan puts community care at the centre of service delivery—shifting resources closer to where people live and promoting prevention over hospital admission. As a member of a community-based NHS trust, you’ll be at the forefront of this change. Work in integrated neighbourhood teams, delivering joined-up care alongside GPs, mental health professionals, social workers, and voluntary services. Benefit from new roles, clear career pathways, apprenticeships, and personalised development support. The plan also brings new workforce standards: improved flexible working, mental health support, safe workplaces, and strong protections against discrimination. With greater investment in underserved areas and a focus on reducing health inequalities, your work will have local impact and national importance. Community trusts are leading the way in digital innovation, using tools like virtual wards to reduce admin and improve patient care. If you’re passionate about making a difference, this is your chance to help deliver a modern, inclusive, and community-focused NHS.

Role

We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our friendly and dynamic Community Nursing team based at Westview in Tenterden. You will share the CARE values of the trust and work within a close-knit group of people who bring the feeling of community to the team through their hard work and dedication to the people of the area.

Responsibilities

The role will be to provide advanced clinical nursing support for patients with complex long-term conditions, assessing and implementing treatments of care. Working as an autonomous practitioner the role will support the management of our most complex patients, and provide clinical leadership. Therefore, candidates with extended learning and experience of long-term conditions, end of life or wound care will be preferred.

Qualifications and preferences

If you have the Specialist Practitioner District Nurse qualification, this would be preferred but is not essential to this role.

Working pattern

Additional Working Pattern: Monday to Friday

Organisation and values

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.

Diversity and inclusion

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.

Application and data

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.

Flexible working

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.

Career development

See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways.

Additional requirements

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. 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 [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

Application guidance

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.

Queries and deadlines

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 apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job. This advert closes on Thursday 25 Sep 2025.