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Location

Cliftonville, Kent | United Kingdom

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Job description

Are you a Nursing Associate looking to progress? Would you describe yourself as caring, compassionate, motivated and interested in developing your career within the health service?

Then this may be the opportunity for you!

Join us at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) in our Community Nursing Team, train to become a qualified Registered Nurse and gain a degree in nursing whilst you work. The programme will help you to develop the knowledge, skills and competencies of a Registered Nurse (RN).

While you work as a Nursing Associate, you will be able to further expand the depth and breadth of your knowledge and skills.

Following successful completion of the programme, you will be awarded a degree-level equivalent qualification (level six) and can move into a role as a qualified nurse once you receive your registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC).

Applicants must be at least 1-year post Nursing Associate qualification and be interested in ‘topping up’ to become a Registered Nurse in 2 years.

If you apply for more than one of the RNDA vacancies, you will only be invited to interview once but you will be considered for every vacancy where you were successfully shortlisted.

The successful candidate for this position will also need to complete an application and interview with the apprenticeship provider. Once you have been successful at both elements, you will be offered the apprenticeship position.

You will train alongside a skilled team of professionals who include nurses, community matrons, specialist nurses, health care assistants and therapy assistants.

As a Registered Nurse Degree Apprentice in Community Nursing, you will provide care to patients in their own homes, including residential homes, where appropriate. Community nurses work hard to treat patients at home so they do not have to go into hospital unnecessarily.

Nurses look after people who are housebound and who have nursing needs. They carry out a range of nursing assessments and procedures, for example, medicine administration, taking blood, dressing changes, and contributing to integrated care.

This job description reflects the Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses (2018): Being an accountable professional; Promoting health and preventing ill health; Assessing needs and planning care; Providing and evaluating care; Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams; Improving safety and quality of care; and Coordinating care.

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver 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’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. 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. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

Looking for professional development? We can support that too! Our career pathwayswill help you achieve your aspirations.

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.

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.

If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.

All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Interviews are due to take place on the 4th of April 2024.

Find out more about the community difference here.

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

Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging 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.

This advert closes on Sunday 24 Mar 2024

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