You should be enthusiastic, adaptable, and committed to patient care, with experience in supporting clinical teams, admin skills, and a dedication to equity, diversity, and high standards.

You will support patient care, assist frontline teams, enhance patient experience, promote equity and inclusion, ensure equitable career opportunities, and facilitate flexible working arrangements.

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Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust offers a variety of community-based health services, including primary care, district nursing, and rehabilitation, across Kent. Their mission is to provide high-quality, compassionate care that supports individuals in their homes and local communities. Their purpose is to enhance patient well-being and promote health through accessible, integrated, and patient-centered services.

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Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

We provide community-based NHS health care throughout Kent, East Sussex and parts of London. #wearecommunity

The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us. We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and efficient Assistant Director for Community Hospitals Transformation to join our executive team on a secondment contract for 24 months. We’re a close team but we’re never exclusive, if you can bring a professional approach and fresh ideas we would love to hear from you. Could you use your skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That’s where you come in. We’re always looking for enthusiastic, responsive, and adaptable people to join our outstanding trust. This role is an important one as you’ll be using your knowledge, experience and expertise to provide admin support to our hard-working frontline NHS teams. We put patients first and we expect all of our colleagues to do the same, so although NHS experience isn’t a requirement for this role you’ll need to share our passion for delivering excellent patient care and keep that passion at the forefront of your professional activity at all times. The challenges come thick and fast in this role but you’ll know that your input is contributing to the excellent experience our patients and service users have every day. 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 See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Minu Ayaz Job title: Business Manager to the Chief AHP Officer Email address: minu.ayaz@nhs.net

The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us.We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and efficient Assistant Director for Community Hospitals Transformation to join our executive team on a secondment contract for 24 months.We’re a close team but we’re never exclusive, if you can bring a professional approach and fresh ideas we would love to hear from you.Could you use your skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That’s where you come in.We’re always looking for enthusiastic, responsive, and adaptable people to join our outstanding trust. This role is an important one as you’ll be using your knowledge, experience and expertise to provide admin support to our hard-working frontline NHS teams.We put patients first and we expect all of our colleagues to do the same, so although NHS experience isn’t a requirement for this role you’ll need to share our passion for delivering excellent patient care and keep that passion at the forefront of your professional activity at all times.The challenges come thick and fast in this role but you’ll know that your input is contributing to the excellent experience our patients and service users have every day.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 ExcellentWe 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 experiencesWe 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 submissionThe 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 WorkAs 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 bothSee where you can go with KCHFT career pathwaysFor further details / informal visits contact: Name: Minu Ayaz Job title: Business Manager to the Chief AHP Officer Email address: minu.ayaz@nhs.net

Assistant Director for Community Hospitals Transformation - Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there’s never been a better time to join us.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled and efficient Assistant Director for Community Hospitals Transformation to join our executive team on a secondment contract for 24 months.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We’re a close team but we’re never exclusive, if you can bring a professional approach and fresh ideas we would love to hear from you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Could you use your skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That’s where you come in.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We’re always looking for enthusiastic, responsive, and adaptable people to join our outstanding trust. This role is an important one as you’ll be using your knowledge, experience and expertise to provide admin support to our hard-working frontline NHS teams.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We put patients first and we expect all of our colleagues to do the same, so although NHS experience isn’t a requirement for this role you’ll need to share our passion for delivering excellent patient care and keep that passion at the forefront of your professional activity at all times.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The challenges come thick and fast in this role but you’ll know that your input is contributing to the excellent experience our patients and service users have every day.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;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&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Minu Ayaz Job title: Business Manager to the Chief AHP Officer Email address: minu.ayaz@nhs.net

Assistant Director for Community Hospitals Transformation

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