Registered Nurses

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 5 Nurse, delivering complex nursing care in a community hospital setting. With a strong focus on rehabilitation, you will assess and monitor patient care, ensuring a high standard of treatments. This role offers full induction and training, along with flexible working arrangements. If you are passionate about patient care, we invite you to be a part of our multidisciplinary team dedicated to enhancing the lives of our community.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Full induction and training

Opportunity to support a multidisciplinary team

Qualifications

• Registered Healthcare Professional with relevant Professional body.
• Experience in community/acute healthcare preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess healthcare needs of patients upon admission.
• Monitor quality of care and ensure professional accountability.
• Provide complex nursing care in an in-patient setting.

Skills

Sound communication

Organisational skills

Ability to cope with change

Ability to use own initiative

Education

1st Level Nurse/NMC Degree

Degree in a health relevant subject or willingness to complete a degree

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18.06.2025

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02.08.2025

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Job overview

Passionate about rehabilitation?

We have the opportunity for you to join our already established ward at Hawkhurst OR to be part of developing a new ward at Westview (Benenden East) in Tenterden!

The majority of our patients here require further support in becoming as independent as possible before going home and have been admitted to us either from being unwell at home or following a stay in an acute hospital.

We are looking for staff to support this exciting opportunity and be part of a multidisciplinary team, working closely together to benefit the patient’s onward journey. Full induction and training will be delivered to enhance any skills that you have in rehabilitating patients,recognising deteriorating patients, IV administration, end of life care and wound care, dependant on your qualifications.

We have daily MDT board rounds, safety huddles and use EPMA for medication administration.

We are having an open day on30th November 2024at Westview Community Hospital, Plummer Lane, Tenterden. TN30 6TX for nursing roles in ourWestview and Hawkhurst Community Hospitals

Please come along and meet our staff, where they will discuss the roles available and take you on a guided tour of the ward and facilities

For further information. Please contact one of our Operational Leads: Louise Marsh 07866 062884, Rachel Nicholls 07554439581 orBryony Donaldson 07557823356

Main duties of the job

Our community hospital nurses provide complex nursing care in an in-patient setting.

As a community hospital nurse, you'll:

·assess the healthcare needs of patients on admission

·monitor the quality of care they're receiving with us

·be professionally accountable for its delivery.

Your patients could be any age, but they'll often be elderly, while others may have been recently discharged from acute hospital, be terminally ill or have physical disabilities.

As a Band 5 Nurse you will work as part of a team to keep people safe and well in our hospitals. You will use your clinical judgement to support evidence-based care planning and make sure that people who use our services have a good experience.

“One of the big differences for me is the time we can give to our patients. We really get to know them.” Val, community hospital nurse.

Additional Working Pattern: Working a mix of long days, early and night shifts over a 7 day roster

Working for our organisation

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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

Person specification

Qualifications

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

Experience

• Experience of recent community/acute healthcare gained through education or work experience placement or previous employment

Knowledge

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

Skills & abilities

• Sound communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written) Ability to organise own work Ability to cope with change Ability to use own initiative

Personal attributes

• Ability to motivate and organise others to ensure best practice. Ability to work under pressure Flexible and adaptable

Ability to manage

• Able to support the implementation of local and national agenda for health under the guidance of the team lead / ward manager. Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures.

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