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Assistant Practitioner | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £26,530 - £29,114 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 May 2025 |
| Location: | South District including Folkestone, Ashford, Dove, TN25 4AZ |
| Company: | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7125452/846-7125452-EP |
Summary
Assistant Practitioners work as part of a team with our School Staff Nurses led by our Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHNs) to deliver a range of interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of children, young people and their families to:
• Help parents develop and sustain a strong bond with children
• Encourage care that keeps children healthy and safe
• Reduce childhood obesity by promoting healthy eating and physical activity
• Identify health issues early, so support can be provided in a timely manner
• Make sure children are prepared for and supported in education settings
• Identify and help children, young people and families with problems that might affect their chances later in life
This role works within a school aged service and undertakes regulated activity with children 4-19 including the support of vulnerable families
You will work closely with all users of our service. You are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services provided across the health economy by:
• Keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures
• Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with clients and families throughout the care planning process
• Providing a comprehensive and needs led School Health Service to the school age population, under the supervision of more senior colleagues
• With support, to take responsibility for providing a school health service to a cluster of schools
• Work in collaboration with other health care and service providers, including school staff, to ensure
seamless delivery of services for school age children
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission
The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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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 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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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
This advert closes on Thursday 24 Apr 2025