Job overview

You will be a core member of the Urgent Care West Kent team based at Unit G, Maidstone where you will be delivering care, both clinical and non-clinical to patients/ clients.

You’ll also be key in supporting patients with their own self-care and independence. This service is part of the Urgent Care Services which provides a two-hour response to patients in crisis at home.

Our aim is to prevent unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge from the acute hospitals. We also provide unscheduled care out-of-hours for patients who may be at the end of life, or experiencing an urgent need for healthcare. This may include treating acutely unwell people that would otherwise require hospital admission, and also supports hospital discharges.

The service covers 24 hours a day 365 days a year.  This service is providing nursing care within patients’ homes and covering West Kent, the ability to drive is essential to this post. 

Under the umbrella of Urgent Care is the Home Treatment Service, which provides hospital level care at home. Part of this role would be supporting the HTS team

Main duties of the job

Your daily activities will be varied to include:

• recording you actions accurately in patient notes
• Basic observations
• Personal care- washing and dressing.
• Catheter care- changing catheter bags and changing catheters
• Mouth care
• Stoma care
• Supporting fluid and nutrition
• Calibration of blood glucose machines and taking blood glucose levels
• MRSA swabs
• Risk assessments such falls assessment, nutrition and hydration, skin integrity
• Sub cut injections. (e.g.: insulin injection).
• Venepuncture

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.  If you feel you qualify for sponsorship via a discounted salary threshold, please contact us via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number and how you feel you qualify for a discounted salary threshold.

Working for our organisation

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

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

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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