Community Staff Nurse

Job overview

We’re looking for compassionate, skilled nurses to join our West Kent Urgent Care Service, delivering rapid two‑hour crisis response to patients in their own homes. Our mission is to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, support early discharge and provide high‑quality unscheduled care for people with urgent or end‑of‑life needs. The service operates 24/7, 365 days a year, offering true continuity of care.

As part of our team, you’ll use an extensive clinical skill set to provide hospital‑level treatment in the community. This includes IV therapy, end‑of‑life symptom management via syringe drivers, catheterisation, phlebotomy, wound care, risk assessment and essential nursing interventions. You’ll play a vital role in supporting acutely unwell patients who might otherwise require admission, ensuring they receive safe, timely and compassionate care at home.

Working collaboratively with colleagues across health and social care, you’ll help deliver a responsive, patient‑centred service that makes a real difference to people during moments of crisis.

If you’re motivated, clinically confident and passionate about delivering high‑quality urgent care in the community, we’d love to welcome you to our team.

Main duties of the job

As a key member of our community nursing team, you’ll deliver high‑quality, holistic care to patients with a wide range of needs. Your role will include:

• Completing holistic assessments and planning, implementing and evaluating personalised care
• Developing integrated care plans in partnership with patients and their families
• Ordering equipment and making timely onward referrals to support safe, effective care
• Supervising and supporting junior staff, including HCAs and students, to help them grow and develop
• Working collaboratively within a multi‑professional team to deliver coordinated, patient‑centred care
• Carrying out a range of competent clinical interventions, recognising deterioration and taking prompt, appropriate action
• Managing a daily caseload of patients with complex needs within your speciality
• Supporting duty responsibilities, including triage and prioritisation of referrals

This role is ideal for a nurse who enjoys autonomy, thrives in a supportive team and is committed to delivering excellent community care.

Additional Working Pattern: 7 days a week, long days and night duty

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

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. 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.

Find out more about the community difference here.

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