Community Staff Nurse | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 pro rata per annum
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Maidstone, ME16 9NT
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Oct 2026
Closing date:	27 Nov 2026

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Summary

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 or working on the Staff Bank within these organisations. Nursing and AHP vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses/AHPs.

Join our West Kent Urgent Care Service as a Twilight Nurse and make a real difference when patients need support most. Our team provides a rapid two-hour crisis response, helping people remain safely in their own homes, avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting timely discharge from acute settings.

Working across a 24/7 service, you'll deliver compassionate, responsive care to patients with urgent, complex and end-of-life needs. Using a wide range of clinical skills, you'll provide treatments often associated with hospital care, including IV therapy, syringe driver management, catheterisation, phlebotomy, wound care and clinical assessment.

This is a rewarding opportunity for a confident and caring nurse who enjoys autonomous working while being part of a supportive, experienced multidisciplinary team. You'll collaborate closely with health and social care colleagues to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care that has a direct impact on people's lives during times of crisis.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship. Therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

As a valued member of our community nursing team, you'll provide holistic, person-centred care to patients with diverse and often complex healthcare needs.

You'll undertake comprehensive assessments, develop and review personalised care plans, and work in partnership with patients, families and wider professionals to achieve the best outcomes. You'll coordinate care, arrange equipment, make onward referrals and deliver a range of clinical interventions while monitoring patients for signs of deterioration and responding appropriately.

The role also includes managing a daily caseload, supporting triage and prioritisation of referrals, and contributing to the smooth running of the service. You'll play an important part in developing others by supervising and supporting healthcare assistants, students and junior colleagues.

This role is ideal for a proactive nurse who thrives in a community setting, values teamwork and is passionate about delivering outstanding care closer to home.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is currently undertaking a significant programme of transformation to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.

We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.

We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.

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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.

Find out more about the community differencehere.

Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Nov 2026

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