PCN Lead | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

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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.

Community Nursing Teams provide personalised nursing care to housebound patients aged 18+ with complex and long-term conditions, helping them remain safe, independent and well in their chosen environment. Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team aligned to a Primary Care Network (PCN), we focus on preventing avoidable hospital admissions.

As aClinical Lead, you will be an experienced Community Nurse who provides clinical leadership, sound professional judgement and expert decision-making. You will act as a role model for the profession, representing Community Nursing within your PCN while leading and developing a team committed to delivering outstanding care.

Our teams provide a wide range of interventions including palliative and end of life care, medication administration including IV therapy, wound management, bladder and bowel care, and supporting patients to manage long-term conditions.

This role is primarily Monday to Friday; however, flexibility is required to support a seven-day service operating between 08:00 and 18:00, including weekends and bank holidays.

As Clinical Lead, you will be accountable for the quality, safety and performance of your team. You will provide day-to-day leadership, supervision and professional support, ensuring excellent standards of care and compliance with professional, organisational and regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities include leading caseload management, supporting staff development through supervision, appraisal and training, undertaking recruitment and induction activities, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. You will contribute to clinical governance, audits, quality improvement initiatives, service performance targets and risk management processes.

Working collaboratively with patients, carers, GPs, care homes and wider health and social care partners, you will build strong professional relationships and represent Community Nursing within multidisciplinary forums. You will support evidence-based practice, participate in audit and research activity, and help shape service development to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.

If you are a motivated and experienced Community Nurse looking for an opportunity to lead, inspire and develop others while making a real difference in your community, we would love to hear from you.

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.

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

This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Nov 2026