Job 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.

Main duties of the job

• 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

Additional Working Pattern: 7 days a week, long days and night duty

About us
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and 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.

Job responsibilities
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.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications, training and experience

• You will have a Level 6 Degree or equivalent qualification, or equivalent knowledge acquired through experience plus a diploma in nursing
• You'll need to have recent experience of healthcare gained through education, work experience or previous employment
• You will be a registered health care professional with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
• A full, valid UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country

Knowledge and skills

• You will need to have a customer focussed approach
• Provide patients, clients and their families with the best possible experience
• You will need to be able to be able to use IT systems and databases
• You will understand where to signpost clients and families to alternative services to support behaviour change and improve health
• You will have knowledge of up-to-date clinical practice by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based procedures and clinical effectiveness frameworks. You will fully understand the role and remit of a health care worker

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).