Job Description

Are you looking for a rewarding career path where you can make a difference? If so, KCHFT's Prevention, Inequalities and Children's Specialist Directorate would like to hear from you.

As a Clinical Lead you'll lead the delivery of identified programmes within our Healthy Child 5-19 portfolio, including the KCHFT's Immunisation programme, to children and adults across Kent and Medway, as well as the trusts internal colleague flu vaccination programmes.

You'll be part of an enthusiastic and passionate team dedicated to keeping the population safe and well, now and in later life, by protecting them against common infections and disease. You'll provide clinical judgement and leadership to support teams to safely deliver early intervention activities including routine immunisations in a variety of settings, making sure that our communities are protected. Building good relationships with the local schools and partners within Kent and Medway is a key part of this role.

For more information please contact:

Magdalena Bourne-Fanti (Head of Service)

magdalena.bourne-fanti@nhs.net or 07775 662369

Interviews will be held on:

20th November 2025



What will the role involve?

Provide clinical leadership across the service You will the lead in supporting the achievement of key performance indicators for service area. Including quality, risk management, governance, workforce and financial measures. This includes establishing a robust monitoring of service activity, analysing data and producing reports You will demonstrate a strong focus on quality of the service user experience in the way services are designed and delivered with clear processes in place for addressing any risks or issues which are identified as impacting on this Ensuring that local and national best practice is shared and applied across teams and that learning from regulatory visits, audits and clinical reviews is embedded into team practice You will have line management responsibility for your direct reports which includes recruitment, absence management, supervision and appraisals. You will ensure that the team has a supervision framework in place and that people management process is followed consistent and equitably across your portfolio and that teams are suitable resourced.

We provide full induction training, regular coaching and the support and encouragement needed to get you off to the best start. This role does require you to be able to travel to and from community settings within Kent and Medway.



We also offer a generous NHS pension, annual leave entitlement and a competitive pay framework to progress through.



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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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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Please note:

at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).



Job responsibilities



As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able 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 kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net 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.



Find out more about the community difference here .



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