Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Nurse | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

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 a well‑established Cardiac Rehabilitation Service supported by a skilled multidisciplinary team, including nurses, physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, counsellors, occupational therapists, rehabilitation assistants, administrators, and volunteers.

Cardiac rehabilitation is vital in helping individuals recover after a cardiac event or diagnosis, supporting confidence, improving physical health, and enabling lasting lifestyle changes. The service focuses on reducing future risk while promoting both physical and psychological wellbeing.

Care is delivered flexibly across multiple settings, including patients’ homes, clinics, and community venues such as leisure centres and village halls, across Ashford, Canterbury, South Kent Coast, and Thanet.

This is a varied and rewarding role where you will deliver rehabilitation within a defined East Kent area, with opportunities to support other localities.

A development post may be offered for candidates not yet meeting all criteria, with progression dependent on completing probation and achieving required competencies.

Undertaking holistic assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of care forpatients with complex, long-term, and higher-risk cardiac conditions, including providing education and advice to support risk reduction, prevent further cardiac events, and improve quality of life.

Managing a defined caseload of patients with cardiac conditions who require ongoing support, delivering structured cardiac rehabilitation and targeted case management within agreed pathways.

Supporting the optimisation of secondary prevention medications in line with national and local guidance, working within scope of practice and in collaboration with the wider multidisciplinary team.

Maintaining and developing own clinical knowledge and skills through continuous professional development to ensure delivery of safe, effective, evidence-based cardiac rehabilitation care.

Working collaboratively with colleagues across primary, community, and secondary care to support coordinated care delivery and contribute to service improvement.

Providing advice and support to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals, and contributing to the promotion of best practice in coronary heart disease management.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship. Therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

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

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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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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 View email address on findajob.dwp.gov.uk, 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.

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

This advert closes on Sunday 14 Jun 2026