Clinical Practitioner

Join Us in Delivering Outstanding Student Care!

Are you a qualified nurse, paramedic, or similar looking for a new challenge? East Kent Colleges Group is seeking an experienced clinical practitioner to join our team and make a real difference in the lives of students with complex health care needs.

In this role, you'll provide essential training and check the competency of staff who support students. You'll work closely with NHS colleagues, parents, and college staff to ensure healthcare is coordinated, efficient, and safe. Your expertise will help advise on best practices to safeguard our students.

Based at Canterbury College, with occasional travel to Broadstairs and Folkestone Colleges, you'll be at the heart of our community.

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

Why Join Us?

• Competitive Salary: £27,895 pro rata per annum for 30 hours per week, 39 weeks per year during term time, plus a holiday payment of £4,468 paid equally over 12 months.
• Professional Development: A company that focuses on your development, with specific training days and opportunities.
• Employee Benefits: Access to hundreds of online discounts, cycle to work, car leasing, and tech purchasing schemes.
• Generous Pension: 18% employer contribution.
• Work-Life Balance: Time off for your child's first day at school, moving home, and interviews.
• Volunteering: My 10 Days initiative allows up to 10 days off for voluntary work, plus Community Days.
• Community Engagement: Annual Staff Celebration Day.
• Eco-Sustainability: Be part of a company committed to being Net-Zero.

We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate professional who is committed to making a positive impact on student health and well-being.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct health care assessments.
• Plan and deliver training programmes.
• Write and update health care plans and reports.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Qualified nurse (RGN), paramedic, or auxiliary nurse.
• Experience working with young people with complex health needs and learning difficulties.
• Commitment to safeguarding and best practices.

No need to update your CV! Simply click apply and complete our short application form. You can save your progress as you go. We review all applications and will get back to all candidates after the closing date.

For an informal chat about the role or any queries, please email us at [email protected].

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application. 

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.