Care Home roles in Canterbury
Protocol Healthcare Services recruits for nursing and residential homes in and around Canterbury, covering everything from a single shift to a permanent contract. We place Registered Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, senior carers and support staff.
Where the work is in Canterbury
Work comes up near Wincheap, St Stephen's and Hales Place, much of it within reach of Canterbury Hospital. Between East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and Kent County Council, most of what we staff around Thanington sits under one of the two.
Shifts land right across the patch: Wincheap, St Stephen's and Hales Place one week, Thanington, Harbledown and Blean the next. If you are based around CT1 or CT4, you are inside the area we cover most heavily.
The job day to day
- ✓ Mobility support and safe moving and handling
- ✓ Medication support appropriate to your role and training
- ✓ Activities, companionship and keeping families informed
- ✓ Clear record keeping and handover between shifts
- ✓ Personal care, washing, dressing and continence support
- ✓ Supporting residents at mealtimes and with nutrition
When you would work
Full-time and part-time patterns both work. If Blean is easier for you to reach than Sturry, say so and the rota follows it. Once you are established we keep the work regular rather than sporadic, usually in the same two or three services around Sturry.
We recruit for temporary and permanent posts. Trying several settings between Wincheap and Thanington first tends to make the permanent choice obvious.
Before you apply
- ✓Previous care home experience is helpful but not always required
- ✓An enhanced DBS check, which we can arrange
- ✓The right to work in the UK
- ✓Reliability and a genuinely person-centred approach
- ✓NMC registration if you are applying for a Registered Nurse post
Working with Protocol
We are a two-office team, not a call centre. The person booking your Kent shifts knows which settings suit you. We recruit from our offices in Edgware and Bournemouth and place people nationwide; there is no branch in Canterbury itself, which we would rather say plainly.
If you can travel, there is steady work in Maidstone, Southend-on-Sea and Medway as well, and many people cover two of those alongside Canterbury.
Tell us which parts of Kent you can reach and we will match you to what is open. There are immediate opportunities for suitable candidates. Call 020 8951 4510 or use the contact form.
Care Home Jobs in Canterbury, answered
Not always. Previous care home experience is helpful but not always required We provide training, and your consultant will match you to settings around Canterbury that fit what you have done before.
Day, night and weekend shifts, on full-time and part-time patterns. You set your availability and we work to it. Once you are established we can offer regular ongoing shifts rather than one-offs.
Both. We recruit for temporary and permanent positions, and many people start on agency shifts around Canterbury before moving into a permanent post once they have found a service that suits them.
Across nursing homes, residential homes, dementia units and specialist care settings. In practice that means Wincheap, St Stephen's, Hales Place, Thanington and Harbledown, covering CT1 and CT4, and out into Kent. Canterbury Hospital is the main hospital in the area.
We have immediate opportunities for suitable candidates. Once your registration, right-to-work and DBS checks are in place, shifts can usually follow quickly. Call 020 8951 4510 or send us your details to get started.
Care Home Jobs near Canterbury
Looking for work in Canterbury?
Register and a consultant will be in touch about shifts around Wincheap, Hales Place and the wider Kent area.