Community Staff Nurse | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 March 2026 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME16 9NT |
| Company: | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7812436/846-7812436-CF |
Summary
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.
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
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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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 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 Sunday 8 Mar 2026