Overview
As a Band 4 Nursing Associate, you will work closely with service users, their families, friends and carers to ensure safe, high-quality, and positive experiences. You’ll achieve this by utilising sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments, adhering to evidence-based policies, and respecting and empowering individuals throughout the care planning process.
This position requires close collaboration with service users, their families, and carers to ensure safe, effective, and positive care experiences. You will apply sound clinical skills, adhere to evidence-based policies, and empower individuals through the care planning process.
The inpatient ward focuses on rehabilitation, admitting patients directly from their homes and acute trusts. Join our organisation and help us deliver the best care!
Locations
* Faversham Cottage Hospital, ME13 8PS
* Hawkhurst Community Hospital, TN18 4PU
* Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Herne Bay, CT6 6EB
* Tonbridge Cottage Hospital, TN11 0NE
* Victoria Hospital, Deal, CT14 9UA
* West View Hospital, Tenterden TN30 6TX
* Whitstable and Tankerton Hospital, CT5 2HN
Application details
Please indicate in the supporting statement of your application form your 1st, 2nd and 3rd preference of Hospital locations.
Driving may be required for these roles as you may be asked to travel to other sites to provide support to your community hospital colleagues if and when needed.
About the role and environment
More emphasis on community-based care means it’s never been a better time to join our brilliant teams across Kent. Our flexible and compassionate colleagues care for patients within a community hospital setting, supporting patients to leave hospital and live a happy and healthy life at home. We treat the whole person, not just the condition. Our work is practitioner-led and therapy focused.
Caring for people in the community requires specialist knowledge and skills; we will develop you through our educational opportunities that range from degrees to apprenticeship-schemes.
Responsibilities
You’ll provide full holistic assessments, and develop patient-centred care plans, using the skills and knowledge you have obtained during your foundation degree study. Key duties include assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating delegated caseloads, supervising junior healthcare support workers and trainees, and performing delegated clinical activities. You will be providing individualised high-quality care to patients, so you will need relevant experience at a Senior Healthcare Assistant level.
Shifts and flexibility
You will be expected to participate in 24-hour internal rotation, encompassing early, late, night, and long day shifts. Flexibility to move to other Community Hospital sites to meet service demands is also required.
Benefits and equality
We welcome flexible working arrangements and offer a range of with a variety of work life balance initiatives that mean we have the perfect job for you.
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.
Applications and support
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.
Flexibility and driving
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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Driving requirement
As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. 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.
Application guidance
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.
Questions
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
Closing date
This vacancy closes on Sunday 14 Sep 2025.
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