Community Nurse

Job overview

Community Nursing Teams provide interventions for housebound  patients aged 18 and over delivering personalised nursing care to  those with complex and long-term conditions. The aim of our service is to enable patients to stay safe and well in their chosen environment.

The service actively works to prevent avoidable admissions by providing tailored care that meets the patient need and assists them in actively achieving their long-term health goals and self-care where possible. The service operates in teams aligned to Primary Care Networks and provides integrated care founded in the framework of the Multidisciplinary Team

Main duties of the job

Your daily activities will be varied to include:

• Palliative and end of life care provision including symptom control, advance care planning and verification of death
• Administration of medication including IV therapy
• Wound management including leg ulcers, post-operative surgical wounds, drains
• Bladder and bowel care
• Health promotion, education and support to manage long-term conditions

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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).

Job responsibilities

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 [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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