An exciting opportunity has arisen for a HCSW to join our skilled and dedicated team.
We welcome applications for a Healthcare Support Worker within the outpatient department at Victoria Hospital. This post is a temporary post.
The outpatient department houses a huge diversity of services across multiple specialities. We require you to have excellent communication skills, good IT skills, are flexible and adaptable, can work well within a team whilst using your own initiative and posses good customer service and problem solving skills. You will be expected to carry out assigned tasks involving direct patient care and the smooth running of the clinical services, in addition to supporting registered nurses under supervision. There is an opportunity to participate and develop new skills after a period of supported learning.
There is a 27 hour temporary post to January 2027; all shift patterns will be to meet the needs of the service. This post is based in Victoria Hospital; however you must be committed to provide flexibility to work across both acute sites.
For informal enquiries please contact Senior Charge Nurse Janice Dickson or Charge Nurses Angela Hamilton on ext 28405/20659.
As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. All applicants are required to confirm their right to work in the UK in their application. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK), European Community (EC) or European Economic Area National please state the visa category under which you are legally entitled to work in the UK on your application form and the expiry date of your leave to remain in the UK
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 in the government website.
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.
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.