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As a Band 4 Nursing Associate, you will work closely with service users, their families, friends, and carers to ensure safe, high-quality, and positive experiences. You’ll achieve this by utilising sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments, adhering to evidence-based policies, and respecting and empowering individuals throughout the care planning process.
This position requires close collaboration with service users, their families, and carers to ensure safe, effective, and positive care experiences. You will apply sound clinical skills, adhere to evidence-based policies, and empower individuals through the care planning process.
The inpatient ward focuses on rehabilitation, admitting patients directly from their homes and acute trusts. Join our organisation and help us deliver the best care!
We have opportunities at the following locations,
Please indicate in the supporting statement of your application form your 1st, 2nd and 3rd preference of Hospital locations.
Driving may be required for these roles as you may be asked to travel to other sites to provide support to your community hospital colleagues if and when needed.
More emphasis on community-based care means it’s never been a better time to join our brilliant teams across Kent. Our flexible and compassionate colleagues care for patients within a community hospital setting, supporting patients to leave hospital and live a happy and healthy life at home. We treat the whole person, not just the condition. Our work is practitioner-led and therapy focused.
Caring for people in the community requires specialist knowledge and skills, we will develop you through our excellent educational opportunities that range from degrees to apprenticeship-schemes.
You’ll provide full holistic assessments, and develop patient-centred care plans, using the skills and knowledge you have obtained during your foundation degree study. Key duties include assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating delegated caseloads, supervising junior healthcare support workers and trainees, and performing delegated clinical activities. You will be providing individualised high-quality care to patients, so you will need the relevant experience of working at a Senior Healthcare Assistant level.
You will be expected to participate in 24-hour internal rotation, encompassing early, late, night, and long day shifts. Flexibility to move to other Community Hospital sites to meet service demands is also required.
We welcome flexible working arrangements and offer a range of with a variety of work life balance initiatives that mean we have the perfect job for you.
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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