Senior Registered Nurse | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Maidstone is seeking a dedicated professional to join the Hospital at Home service. The role involves providing acute clinical care in patients' homes and includes responsibilities such as assessment, planning, and managing complex cases. We value diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. A full UK driving license is essential. This position supports flexibility for work-life balance, and you will be part of a passionate team committed to high patient care standards.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Support for career pathways

Qualifications

• Experience in assessment, planning, and implementation of care.
• Ability to lead and support junior staff.
• Must be able to drive as a requirement for the role.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic care through assessment and evaluation.
• Develop integrated care plans in partnership with patients.
• Manage a caseload of patients with complex needs.
• Support junior staff in completing assessments.

Skills

Assessment and evaluation skills

Clinical care knowledge

Team collaboration

Driving capability

Job description

Overview

This post is to support the Hospital at Home service which is a collaboration with the acute trust to deliver hospital standard treatment within a patients’ home. The Hospital at Home philosophy is providing acute clinical care at home which would otherwise be provided in a hospital.

The service is part of the Urgent Care Services which provides a two-hour response to patients in crisis at home. Our aim is to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals. We also provide unscheduled care out-of-hours for patients who may be at the end of life, or experiencing an urgent need for healthcare. This may include treating acutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges. The service convers 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Nurses use a wide clinical skills base to provide hospital-level care at home. This includes IV therapy, end of life symptom control and management via syringe driver, catheterisation skills, phlebotomy, wound management, risk assessment, as well as general observations and fundamental nursing care.

This service is providing nursing care within patients’ homes and covering West Kent. The ability to drive is essential to this post.

Responsibilities

• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of holistic care
• The development of integrated care plans in partnership with the patient
• To order equipment and send onward referrals as necessary
• To act as a lead and senior practitioner to support junior staff to carry out assessments/reassessments of service users and/or pathways with complex needs across the relevant field.
• To actively work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide high quality care to patients
• To undertake a range of competent clinical interventions and identify any deterioration in patients’ condition, taking appropriate action.
• Manage a caseload of patients on a daily basis consisting of patients with complex needs.
• To support in duty role and complete triages
• To support the Clinical Lead in the management of the team
• To support and make recommendations to senior managers in order to prioritise and focus efforts to drive forward and achieve business objectives, service improvement strategies and statutory requirements.

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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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).

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such 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.

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.

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

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025