Urgent Care Nurse

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an Urgent Care Nurse to join our 24/7 urgent care service. You will provide high-quality, patient-centered care in the home and community setting, supporting rapid assessment and safe discharge.

As a senior practitioner, you will triage, plan and evaluate care, supervise junior staff, and work within a multidisciplinary team to prevent hospital admissions and promote independence.

Qualifications

• Registered health care professional with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Level 6 Degree or equivalent qualification; diploma in nursing.
• Experience of managing complex caseloads and mentoring others.
• Full UK/EU driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care programmes.
• Developing integrated care plans in partnership with patients and carers.
• Managing a complex daily caseload and responding to changing patient needs.
• Undertaking clinical interventions and recognising deterioration with timely actions.
• Completing triage assessments and supporting the service duty function.
• Ordering equipment and making onward referrals for seamless care.
• Acting as a senior practitioner, providing guidance and supervision to junior colleagues.
• Working with a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective care.

Skills

Customer focus

Managing complex caseloads

Team mentoring

Education

Level 6 Degree or equivalent

Diploma in Nursing

Tools

IT systems usage

Job description

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Urgent Care Nurse

The closing date is 24 November 2026

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.

Are you looking for a new challenge in a fast‑paced, rewarding Urgent Care environment? Join our dedicated team delivering short‑term health, therapy and care support that helps people remain safely in their own homes and communities.

Urgent Care Services operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, providing care that prevents unnecessary hospital admissions, supports timely hospital discharge, and enables people to recover in the place evidence shows is best for regaining independence – their own home. Our night service provides urgent, unplanned care including end‑of‑life care, catheter management and other essential interventions that cannot wait until the following day.

We are also working closely with partners to develop innovative Virtual Ward services, enabling patients with conditions such as respiratory infections and COPD to receive hospital‑level care at home through remote monitoring and digital technology.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a forward‑thinking service that places rehabilitation, enablement and person‑centred care at the heart of everything we do.

Main duties of the job

As a senior member of the team, you will deliver high‑quality, holistic care to patients with complex needs, supporting them to achieve maximum independence in their own homes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care programmes.
• Developing integrated care plans in partnership with patients and carers.
• Managing a complex daily caseload and responding to changing patient needs.
• Undertaking clinical interventions and recognising deterioration, taking timely action where required.
• Completing triage assessments and supporting the service duty function.
• Ordering equipment and making onward referrals to ensure seamless care.
• Acting as a senior practitioner, providing guidance, support and supervision to junior colleagues.
• Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective and compassionate care.
• Supporting the Clinical Lead with the day‑to‑day management and development of the team.

This role offers varied and rewarding work, opportunities to develop advanced clinical skills, and the chance to make a real difference every day.

About us

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.

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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Job 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.

All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

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 cant wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You will be a registered health care professional with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• You will have a Level 6 Degree or equivalent qualification, or equivalent knowledge acquired through experience plus a diploma in nursing
• You’ll need to have experience of managing complex caseloads and supporting/ mentoring others
• Full UK/EU driving licence

Knowledge and skills

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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearpro rata per annum