We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Charge Nurse within our Intensive Care Unit at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy. The position will allow the successful candidate to join our existing established and highly motivated team of experienced Critical Care nurses to lead our service.
We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic about implementing change and can motivate and generate ideas. Extensive clinical and leadership experience within Critical Care is vital for this role. As a Senior Charge Nurse, you will be instrumental in the day-to-day running of the unit and the service. You will also lead a team to manage service improvement projects to raise quality and safety standards of patient care. You will also work closely with our existing team of committed and motivated Critical Care Senior Charge Nurses, Clinical Nurse Educator and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.
Critical Care at Victoria Hospital is provided across three units, the Intensive Care Unit, Surgical High Dependency Unit and Medical High Dependency Unit. The overall bed capacity across all units is 28 beds. Each unit has their own designated Senior Charge Nurse and nursing team. Our Senior Charge Nurses provide clinical leadership, management and expert advice to all nursing staff in the delivery of care within their area of responsibility including recruitment, supervision, development and deployment of unit staff as required to support safe nurse staffing.
The post holder will undertake regular rotational cover of the Directorate out-of-hours to provide leadership, deal with clinical issues, immediate management issues and deploy staff as appropriate and be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development of programmes of care, and/or the implementation and evaluation of these programmes ensuring the delivery of high-quality care to patients across the hospital.
This post is full time, 37 hours per week, predominately worked over five days, Monday to Friday with occasional weekend working as part of the Directorate cover as previously noted.
For informal enquiries contact Lisa Wood, Clinical Nurse Manager on 01592 643355 ext 20083, email lisa.wood3@nhs.scot, or Angie Shepherd, Service Manager ext 28034, email angie.shepherd1@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.
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