This is an exciting opportunity for a first level, degree qualified, NMC Registered Nurse to provide professional, visible, credible leadership and day to day operational management for NHS Fife’s Community Immunisation Team. This a relatively young service and you could be pivotal in shaping the service looking to the future, through professional nursing, operational and quality improvement methods. You should preferably have some understanding of adult and children’s vaccination programmes, however, this is not essential. The Community Immunisation Service undertakes administering immunisations to pre-school infants, primary school children, high school pupils and adults. You should also have an understanding of national strategic direction/policies regarding public health and immunisations, and how these can be implemented in Fife. Clinical requirements will include ensuring appropriate patient safety and clinical governance in community immunisation settings, to include governance around cold chain processes. Responsible for the operational management of a group of staff you will have previous staff management and leadership experience as well as demonstrable evidence of developing others. You will require to deputise for the Lead Nurse in some instances. For informal enquiries please contact Charmaine Bremner, Lead Nurse at charmaine.bremner@nhs.scot or Karen Nolan CSM at karen.nolan@nhs.scot. NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application. To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here. For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here. It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form. Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Changes to our services - Disclosure Scotland We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices. NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.