Community Staff Nurse

We are looking for a Band 5 Community Staff Nurse to join one of our Community Nursing teams based at New Romney Clinic in New Romney, to support the development of this service.

We operate seven days a week from 08:00-18:00, with weekend shifts on a rotational basis.

We support patients from GP practices within New Romney and surrounding areas.

The teams provide nursing care to predominantly housebound patients where each team takes responsibility for a defined geographical patch, allowing good working relationships with local GPs, care homes, Social Services, voluntary organisations and other stakeholders.

The Community Nurses also provide local clinics for patients requiring their clinical skills. As the Community Staff Nurse, you are able to support a patient with nursing care delivery towards the aim of self-management.

Main duties of the job

This is a highly rewarding role, and nurses are supported to achieve all the clinical skills required with local practice educators and extended training.

Clinical areas are diverse, and include clinical skills for wound management care, end of life care, medicines administrations and IVs, bladder and bowel care, amongst other duties. Each team have two senior staff, therefore, these posts are suitable for those who are newly qualified or moving from an acute setting.

You will need your own car and are able to claim mileage costs and access the NHS car lease provision, following a probationary period.

We are rated as "outstanding" and we provide consistent, high quality care across all of our services. The Trust's priority is to make sure all colleagues are protected as we go about our daily work and through that to make sure the care we provide for patients, clients and service users remains as excellent as ever.

As a dynamic organisation, with a fast changing service provision we take a flexible approach in terms of what we are able to offer.

We are proud that KCHFT currently hold DWP Disability Confident Employer status and are working towards Disability Confident Leader accreditation. We welcome applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds and those covered by the Equalities Act.

Additional Working Pattern: Monday to Friday with rotational weekends

About us

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