Senior Registered Nurse

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. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

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.

Are you a compassionate and motivated Band 6 Nurse ready to make a real difference in your community? Join our dynamic Community Nursing team, delivering high-quality, personalised care to housebound adults with complex and long-term conditions.

• Support patients to remain safe and well in their own homes, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
• Work within a Primary Care Network and multidisciplinary team, managing a diverse caseload.
• Deliver holistic assessments, care planning, and clinical interventions including wound care, IV therapy, palliative care, and chronic condition management.
• Coordinate care delivery, triage referrals, and support junior staff through supervision and mentorship.
• Use clinical expertise to assess complex needs, make informed decisions, and promote independence through patient education.
• Contribute to service improvement, quality standards, and multidisciplinary meetings, ensuring the highest levels of patient care.

• Skilled clinician with strong leadership qualities.
• Passionate about community care.
• Opportunity to progress towards (or complete) the Specialist Practitioner District Nurse qualification.

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. We need outstanding people who share our values: compassionate, aspirational, responsive, and excellent.

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.

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.

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.

See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Kirsty Zweck

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Admin team lead
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