Are you passionate about a career in nursing? Join our Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship and take your first step towards becoming a Registered Nurse (Adult).
This programme offers a perfect blend of academic and work-basedlearning, while you work as a Healthcare Assistant with Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Key Features:
• Academic & Work-Based Learning: Develop your skills and competencies as an RN while gaining hands-on experience in various healthcare settings like community hospitals, nursing clinics, and public health environments.
• Degree-Level Qualification: Upon successful completion, earn a level six degree-equivalent qualification and transition into a qualified nurse role.
• Varied Healthcare Experience: Work in diverse settings to enhance your understanding of the wider health economy.
• Shift Work & Travel: Be prepared for shift work and traveling to various locations.
• Essential Skills Clusters: Work towards achieving NMC standards in care, compassion, communication, organizational aspects of care, infection prevention, nutrition, and medicines management.
• Study Support: Benefit from dedicated study time for a Bachelor's degree in nursing in conjunction with the Open University (OU).
Join us and gain the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes, and behaviors relevant to the NMC Code of Conduct.Transform your career with our apprenticeship programme and become a Registered Nurse in just four years.
Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care, prioritising patient needs.
• Maintain accountability and review actions.
• Demonstrate leadership, manage, and guide colleagues.
• Stay current with knowledge and skills.
• Support learners and new entrants.
• Adhere to NMC Code and pre-registration student requirements.
Key Result Areas:
• Provide safe, effective services for positive patient experiences.
Patient Safety:
• Practice safely with nursing interventions and devices.
• Understand public health principles.
• Apply legislation to protect vulnerable populations.
Clinical Outcomes:
• Perform accurate assessments.
• Deliver effective care in various settings.
• Respond to diverse health needs.
• Utilise diagnostic skills safely.
• Address terminal illness needs.
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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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.
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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Feb 2025