Pcn Lead

Kent Community Health Nhs Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Lead for its Community Nursing Teams. You will provide clinical leadership, ensure high-quality care, and develop a multidisciplinary team delivering ongoing, safe care for housebound patients.

The role requires flexibility for a seven-day service, including weekends and bank holidays. You will lead caseload management, support staff development, and engage with partners to drive service improvements and evidence-based practice

Qualifications

• Level 6 Degree or equivalent in Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech and Language Therapy.
• Experience managing complex caseloads and mentoring others.
• Registered health care professional with NMC or HCPC.
• Full UK/EU driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and professional support to your team.
• Lead caseload management and staff development through supervision and training.
• Contribute to clinical governance, audits and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Customer focus

IT literacy

Clinical knowledge

Signposting to services

Education

Level 6 nursing/health professions degree

Job description

Job overview

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.

Community Nursing Teams provide personalised nursing care to housebound patients aged 18+ with complex and long-term conditions, helping them remain safe, independent and well in their chosen environment. Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team aligned to a Primary Care Network (PCN), we focus on preventing avoidable hospital admissions.

As a Clinical Lead, you will be an experienced Community Nurse who provides clinical leadership, sound professional judgement and expert decision-making. You will act as a role model for the profession, representing Community Nursing within your PCN while leading and developing a team committed to delivering outstanding care.

Our teams provide a wide range of interventions including palliative and end of life care, medication administration including IV therapy, wound management, bladder and bowel care, and supporting patients to manage long-term conditions.

This role is primarily Monday to Friday; however, flexibility is required to support a seven-day service operating between 08:00 and 18:00, including weekends and bank holidays.

Main duties of the job

As Clinical Lead, you will be accountable for the quality, safety and performance of your team. You will provide day-to-day leadership, supervision and professional support, ensuring excellent standards of care and compliance with professional, organisational and regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities include leading caseload management, supporting staff development through supervision, appraisal and training, undertaking recruitment and induction activities, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. You will contribute to clinical governance, audits, quality improvement initiatives, service performance targets and risk management processes.

Working collaboratively with patients, carers, GPs, care homes and wider health and social care partners, you will build strong professional relationships and represent Community Nursing within multidisciplinary forums. You will support evidence-based practice, participate in audit and research activity, and help shape service development to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.

Working for our organisation

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.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications, training and experience

Essential criteria

• You’ll need to have a Level 6 Degree or equivalent qualification in relevant subject Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech and Language Therapy
• You’ll need to have experience within your area of practice. As well as managing complex caseloads and supporting/ mentoring others
• You will be a registered health care professional with the Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Professionals
• Full UK/EU driving licence

Knowledge and skills

Essential criteria

• You will need to have a customer focussed approach
• Provide patients, clients and their families with the best possible experience
• You will need to be able to be able to use IT systems and databases
• You will understand where to signpost clients and families to alternative services to support behaviour change and improve health
• You will have knowledge of up to date clinical practice by using up- to- date skills and adhering to evidence-based procedures and clinical effectiveness frameworks. You will fully understand the role and remit of a health care worker.

Desirable criteria

• Having an awareness of developments within the NHS would be an advantage as well as an understanding of National Service Frameworks and NICE guidance