Victoria Hospital
The posts available are 1x36 hrs 1x 32 hrs and 1 x24hrs
These posts will be based within the (Fife-wide) Integrated Discharge Team, mainly based within Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy and on occasion may be asked to cover Community Hospitals across Fife. This post involves comprehensive assessment and discharge planning.
We work to support discharge to meet PDD. Our ethos is patient centred pathways within the Home First Model. The post involves attending ward daily MDTs completing assessments and communicating with the relevant teams across the Partnership and Third Sector organisations.
The role requires an enthusiastic individual who takes a dynamic approach to complex discharge planning. Ideally a knowledge and wide range of experience working within Health and Social Care would be desirable.
You are required to have a current qualification/ registration Nursing or AHP role and will work across all areas and play a pivotal role in discharge planning. The ideal candidate will require to have excellent communication skills, with an organised and flexible approach.
You should possess knowledge and experience of long-term conditions and frailty which currently has an impact on our aging population.
You will be required to work as an autonomous practitioner, using your own initiative, decision making and providing regular updates on discharge pathways and plans.
Knowledge and skills in the use of Microsoft Office and associated databases (e.g. Excel) are also required for this post.
For informal enquiries please contact George Cameron, Lead Nurse at or call 01592 740195 ext 40195 or Heather Haxton, Team Lead at or call 01592 643355 ext 20815
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.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
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 websitehere.
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 sponsoredBEFORE 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.
- Urban Practice