Community Wound Clinic Nurse

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 a passionate and experienced nurse looking to make a real difference in wound care? Join our specialist Wound Management Centre team, delivering high-quality care to patients with complex and hard-to-heal wounds across community clinics and patients’ homes.

You will provide assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of wound care interventions, helping patients achieve the best possible outcomes while promoting independence and self-management. Working across clinics and supporting Community Nursing Teams, you will collaborate closely with GPs, Primary Care Networks, and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver seamless, patient-centred care.

You will manage a caseload, applying clinical judgement to complex situations while acting as a role model for junior staff and students. The role also offers opportunities to contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the enhancement of specialist wound care services.

If you are motivated and committed to outstanding community-based care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As a Wound Care Community Nurse, you will play a key role in delivering specialist wound care to patients with complex and hard-to-heal wounds in community clinics and patients’ homes. Working within the Wound Management Centre and alongside the wider Community Nursing Team, you will assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate high-quality, evidence-based care that supports healing, improves outcomes, and enhances patient experience.

You will support the effective day-to-day running of wound clinics, promoting patient independence through education, self-management, and personalised care planning. Working closely with Primary Care Networks, GPs, and multidisciplinary colleagues, you will contribute to seamless, patient-centred community care.

This role requires excellent communication, organisation, and clinical decision-making skills, together with a strong understanding of community nursing, safeguarding, risk management, and clinical governance. You will maintain accurate clinical records, support quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, and escalate concerns when appropriate.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced community nurse with a passion for wound care and clinical excellence. If you are committed to delivering holistic care that helps patients remain independent while supporting improvements in local wound care services, we would love to hear from you.

Additional Working Pattern: 37.5hr per week Monday to Friday 08.30 -16.30

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 kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, 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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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.