Community Clinical Nurse Specialist

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

Are you an experienced Community Nurse ready to step into a leadership role where you can truly shape patient care? Based in Faversham and working across Canterbury, Faversham, Herne Bay and Whitstable, this Clinical Nurse Specialist role places you at the heart of delivering high-quality care to housebound patients in their own homes.

You’ll not only provide expert clinical care but also lead and inspire your team, ensuring the highest standards are consistently achieved. Acting as a role model, you’ll bring sound clinical judgement and advanced knowledge to assess complex patients, plan their care and support effective outcomes. You’ll coordinate referrals, allocate workloads and ensure the right skills are matched to patient needs.

This is a unique opportunity to influence service delivery, contribute to service improvement and support innovative, patient-centred care in the community. Working collaboratively with Primary Care Networks and multidisciplinary teams, you’ll help ensure patients receive seamless, holistic care that promotes independence and wellbeing. If you're passionate about leadership and community care, this role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact every day.

Main duties of the job

In this varied and rewarding role, you’ll be accountable for team performance, ensuring safe, effective and responsive care delivery. You’ll manage staffing resources, oversee duty rotas, support annual leave planning and ensure compliance with mandatory training. Monitoring capacity and demand, you’ll escalate concerns appropriately and contribute to service efficiency.

You’ll lead on quality improvement, managing incidents, complaints and patient experience to drive learning and development within the team. Supporting staff progression is central—through supervision frameworks, competency sign-off and both formal and informal teaching in areas such as end-of-life care and IV therapy.

Alongside leadership responsibilities, you’ll remain clinically active—assessing patients, delivering interventions and guiding complex decision-making. You’ll also contribute to strategic initiatives, presenting proposals and supporting budget management and cost improvement plans.

Our service operates 08:00–18:00, including weekends and bank holidays, with flexibility considered. If you’re a confident leader, skilled clinician and passionate advocate for outstanding community care, we’d love you to join our team.

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 [email protected], 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.