Night Nurse | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust in Dover

Please note: 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. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

Join an innovative and responsive service that makes a real difference when patients need urgent support most. The East Kent Night Nursing Service delivers specialist care to patients in their own homes overnight, providing urgent clinical interventions that cannot safely wait until the following day. Supporting people across East Kent, the team responds to referrals from NHS 111, South East Coast Ambulance Service, Out of Hours GPs, and directly from patients, relatives and carers via our Local Referral Unit.

We focus on delivering high-quality care. As part of the wider Urgent Care Services, we help people remain safely at home, reducing avoidable hospital admissions and supporting timely hospital discharge. Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, we believe home is often the best place for recovery.

We work alongside East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust to develop virtual wards, enabling patients with acute respiratory conditions and long-term illnesses to receive monitoring and clinical care at home. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking service that combines compassionate nursing, integrated working and innovative technology to improve community healthcare.

This is a varied and rewarding opportunity for a motivated nurse who enjoys autonomous practice, clinical decision-making and delivering outstanding patient-centred care. Following a comprehensive induction, you will play a key role in triaging overnight referrals, undertaking telephone assessments, determining clinical urgency, allocating visits and signposting patients to the most appropriate services when required.

Working independently and often as a lone practitioner, you will assess, plan, implement and evaluate holistic care for patients with a range of urgent and complex needs. You will undertake clinical interventions including catheterisation, intravenous medication administration, syringe driver management and verification of expected death. Alongside direct patient care, you will contribute to integrated care planning, service development and multidisciplinary working to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

The role also offers opportunities to support junior staff, contribute to quality improvement initiatives and help shape future service delivery. While experience in community or hospice nursing is desirable, we are equally interested in nurses who are confident, adaptable and passionate about high-quality care in a dynamic urgent care environment. If you thrive on variety, value professional autonomy and want to make a meaningful difference every night, we would love to hear from you.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and 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.

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.

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