A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Head of Nursing to join the Nursing Directorate within Fife Health and Social Care Partnership. This post will provide senior nursing leadership and professional development of nursing practice to a range of services: -
Fife Health and Social Care champion a “Team Fife” approach with NHS Fife, Fife Council and the Independent and Voluntary Sector. Within Fife’s Health and Social Care Partnership there are 3 operational service delivery units detailed below:
1. Primary and Preventative Care Services – including Primary Care, Urgent Care, Dental, Health Promotion & Improvement, Children’s Services, Sexual Health, local are co-ordination and Allied Health Professions
2. Community Care Services – including community hospitals, care homes, home care, and community health services.
3. Complex and Critical Services –including mental health; psychology, Learning Disability and Adult Social Work.
It is an exciting time to join the Senior Nursing Team; the HSCP is commencing a significant programme of change and transformation and nursing is on a platform like no other. The Heads of Nursing have responsibility for ensuring standards of care and nursing practice are met.
The role provides leadership for safe, effective, person centered practice and the development of a highly skilled, effective nursing workforce to meet the needs of people in Fife, aligned to the H&SC Strategic Plan and NHS Fife's Clinical Strategy.
Within this role you will provide clinical leadership, professional nursing advice, develop nursing practice, provide leadership for clinical and care governance, embedding quality and supporting transformational change.
We are looking to appoint a driven and inspiring individual who has the ability to lead wide ranging and sustainable service developments. In applying for this role, you will be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and have evidence of post graduate education. You will offer significant leadership and management experience.
This post requires an individual with a proven track record of success in leading service improvement, delivering and monitoring high quality standards of care and someone with a proactive approach to partnership working.
As a team player you will be committed to collaborative, multi-disciplinary and partnership working, whilst ensuring the highest standards of care and operational management.
If you believe you have the skills, values, knowledge, attributes and experience to provide senior nursing professional leadership as described above, then we would welcome your application.
For informal enquiries, please contact Lynn Barker, Director of Nursing via email to Kirsty Chater - kirsty.chater@nhs.scot.
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. 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: Disclosure Scotland Changes.
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.