Consultant Geriatrician

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 or working on the Staff Bank within these organisations. Nursing and AHP vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses/AHPs.

Shape the Future of Urgent Community Care Across Kent and Medway

Bring Hospital-Level Care Home

Are you passionate about delivering outstanding care where patients need it most?

We're expanding our ambitious and innovative Urgent Community Care services across Medway, East Kent and West Kent, and we're looking for skilled, motivated clinicians to help transform the way healthcare is delivered.

This is your opportunity to be part of a service at the forefront of modern healthcare, providing rapid assessment, treatment and ongoing support that enables patients to receive high-quality, hospital-level care in the comfort of their own homes.

Working within our dynamic multidisciplinary teams, you'll play a vital role in:

Preventing unnecessary hospital admissions

Supporting timely discharge from hospital

Delivering care through Virtual Wards, Urgent Community Response and our Single Point of Access (SPOA)

Helping people remain independent in their own communities

Shaping and developing the future of community-based urgent care

Why Join Us?

This is more than a job. It's an opportunity to help lead one of the most exciting shifts in healthcare delivery.

Our services operate 7 days a week, working alongside acute hospitals, neighbourhood teams and system partners to provide seamless, patient-centred care across Kent and Medway., 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.

Healthcare is changing. More care is being delivered closer to home than ever before, and urgent community services are at the heart of that transformation.

Join us and help redefine what's possible outside hospital walls.

Deliver exceptional care. Drive innovation. Change lives.

Your next challenge starts here.

Apply today and help shape the future of Urgent Community Care.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is currently undertaking a significant programme of transformation 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.