Health Improvement Practitioner - Team Lead

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 and motivated Health Practitioner ready to take the next step into leadership? We are looking for a dynamic Team Lead to join our Health & Social Care Coordinator (HSCC) and Primary Care Lifestyle Teams within East Kent Long Term Services.

This is a rewarding and varied role where you’ll blend clinical expertise with leadership, making a real difference to patient outcomes. You will lead and support staff through supervision, mentoring, and line management, while coordinating service delivery across both teams.

Alongside leadership responsibilities, you’ll remain hands-on in patient care — carrying out assessments, supporting care coordination, contributing to MDT working, and guiding patients to the right services. You’ll also undertake Trusted Assessor equipment assessments (full training provided).

Working closely with Community Nursing teams, GPs, and wider partners, you’ll play a key role in reducing health inequalities, improving quality of life, and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions.

Main duties of the job

You bring a strong clinical background, combined with leadership or supervisory experience, and a passion for delivering integrated, patient-centred care. You’re highly organised, a confident communicator, and thrive in collaborative environments.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, mentoring, and supporting staff development
• Coordinating and overseeing service delivery across both teams
• Monitoring resources, budgets, and contributing to service improvement
• Collecting, analysing, and reporting data to support outcomes
• Ensuring high-quality, evidence-based clinical practice
• Assessing patient needs and facilitating appropriate referrals
• Communicating effectively with MDTs and senior management

This role is based across Canterbury and Ashford, with regular travel for home visits, clinics, and multidisciplinary meetings.

If you’re ready to lead with purpose and improve patient care across East Kent, we’d love to hear from you.

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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