Are you looking for a rewarding career path where you can make a difference? If so, KCHFT’s Prevention, Inequalities and Children’s Specialist Directorate would like to hear from you.
As a Clinical Lead you’ll lead the delivery of identified programmes within our Healthy Child 5-19 portfolio, including the KCHFT’s Immunisation programme, to children and adults across Kent and Medway, as well as the trusts internal colleague flu vaccination programmes.
You’ll be part of an enthusiastic and passionate team dedicated to keeping the population safe and well, now and in later life, by protecting them against common infections and disease. You’ll provide clinical judgement and leadership to support teams to safely deliver early intervention activities including routine immunisations in a variety of settings, making sure that our communities are protected. Building good relationships with the local schools and partners within Kent and Medway is a key part of this role.
For More Information Please Contact
Magdalena Bourne-Fanti (Head of Service)
magdalena.bourne-fanti@nhs.net or 07775 662369
Interviews will be held on: 20th November 2025
What will the role involve?
* Provide clinical leadership across the service
* You will the lead in supporting the achievement of key performance indicators for service area. Including quality, risk management, governance, workforce and financial measures. This includes establishing a robust monitoring of service activity, analysing data and producing reports
* You will demonstrate a strong focus on quality of the service user experience in the way services are designed and delivered with clear processes in place for addressing any risks or issues which are identified as impacting on this
* Ensuring that local and national best practice is shared and applied across teams and that learning from regulatory visits, audits and clinical reviews is embedded into team practice
* You will have line management responsibility for your direct reports which includes recruitment, absence management, supervision and appraisals. You will ensure that the team has a supervision framework in place and that people management process is followed consistent and equitably across your portfolio and that teams are suitable resourced.
We provide full induction training, regular coaching and the support and encouragement needed to get you off to the best start. This role does require you to be able to travel to and from community settings within Kent and Medway.
We also offer a generous NHS pension, annual leave entitlement and a competitive pay framework to progress through.
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
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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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For further details / informal visits contact
Name: Amber Bond Job title: Head of Service: Kent School Health Email address: amberbond@nhs.net
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