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We are looking for passionate and skilled Band 6 Community Nurses to join our Thanet Community Nursing Teams, to be based at our brand new £10million state-of-the-art Thanet Health Hub.

Our award-winning service brings together a skilled group of nurses, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, counsellors, cardiac rehab assistants, practitioners, an occupational therapist, administrators, and volunteers.

We provide physical, social, and psychological rehabilitation through a variety of options tailored to each patient’s needs and preferences. In this role, you’ll deliver cardiac rehab services across an allocated area of East Kent and help cover other areas based on demand, waiting times, and capacity.

You’ll also work closely with the Senior Clinical Lead and Head of Service to ensure we deliver safe, high-quality care through an effective and efficient model.

You’ll be responsible for assessing, delivering, and evaluating care for patients with complex, long-term, and potentially high-risk cardiac conditions. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll manage a set caseload of patients with ongoing needs who would benefit from targeted case management.

Working within the community, you’ll serve as a go-to resource on Coronary Heart Disease for primary, community, and secondary care services.

“One of the big differences for me is the time we can give to our patients. We really get to know them.” Val, community hospital nurse.

Additional Working Pattern: 22.5 Monday - Friday

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

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. 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.