Overview
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About The Organisation
As Scotland’s smallest health board, NHS Orkney is driven by a bold vision: looking after our community and providing excellent care. Whether you’re starting your NHS journey or bringing expertise from another NHS employer, your skills will make a real difference to the health and lives of Orkney’s 22,000 residents.
Our state-of-the-art healthcare facility, The Balfour, opened in 2019 and is home to modern inpatient wards, an emergency department, outpatient clinics, diagnostics, GP practices, and the Scottish Ambulance Service. Collaboration thrives here, ensuring exceptional care for every patient. Beyond our main facility, we’re investing in our outer isles, enhancing services, and transforming patient care across our islands.
Orkney itself is magical, with over 70 islands (20 inhabited), offering stunning landscapes, unique wildlife, and vibrant cultural and sporting activities. Recognised as one of the UK’s best places to live, Orkney promises a distinctive lifestyle.
The Post
Are you an Advanced Nurse Practitioner ready to expand and develop new generalist skills and build on your experience? Could your nursing skills help us become a centre of excellence in remote and rural healthcare? A post has arisen for a suitably qualified, experienced and forward-thinking nurse to work in a supported environment on the Islands of Orkney. The successful applicant will evidence up-to-date clinical knowledge and skills and have an interest in working in a remote and rural setting, autonomously with peer support from the Isles Network of Care. The Advanced Nurse Practitioner post holder will be the lead practitioner in providing emergency care on the island.
The Isles Network of Care was set up in 2010 to provide support to practitioners on the smaller islands of Orkney. Practitioners meet weekly via videoconferencing to discuss clinical and administrative issues, review cases, share good practice and undertake significant event analysis. The Isles of Orkney offer a wonderful opportunity to provide personalised care to the population and primary care with continuity while working as part of a mutually supportive team.
The Candidate
The successful candidate will be flexible, resourceful and confident working without a hospital or GP at hand and will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing the health care needs of patients and families. Other duties include monitoring and audit, treatment room and community nursing activities. We welcome applications from people interested in residing or commuting to work on the Islands.
Location, Working Pattern and Contract Duration
You will work across various islands cross Orkney; your base location will be determined upon appointment. The successful candidate will work on a Relief as and when required basis. It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post.
Benefits And Salary
The salary for this post is on a Band 7 £50,861 – £59,159 and if residing on Orkney, you’ll also receive a Distant Islands Allowance of £1,654 pro rata per year, adding value to your rewarding career with us. NHS Orkney also offers an attractive pension scheme, a wide range of work-life balance policies, an employee assistance programme and various discounts to local and national retailers.
Further Information
If you share our vision and are ready to be part of Team Orkney, we’d love to hear from you. If there are additional requirements you would like to request, please contact ork.recruitment@nhs.scot. This position is subject to a PVG Scheme Record check.
Job Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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