This is an exciting development for the role of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) within Urgent Care Services Fife (UCSF).
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will apply high levels of decision making to assess and treat paediatric and adult patients presenting in UCSF. As part of the senior clinical team, you will ensure patient health needs are met through the autonomous provision of diagnosis and the management of patient conditions through assessment, treatment, and review planning process. This will be facilitated in partnership with patients, carers and families. This role involves providing specialist advice and education to healthcare professionals, other agencies, carers, clients and relatives. Within this role you will also be required to work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries to develop the service to improve practice, implementing and evaluating evidence-based standards, guidelines and policy.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop nursing practice within community based urgent care. As a Registered General Nurse with substantial post registration experience, you will be educated towards MSc level in an Advanced Nurse Practitioner Qualification and Independent Nurse Prescriber qualification. You will also have experience supporting the professional development of others including teaching, clinical supervision and the application of research and audit underpinned by a strong knowledge of current Urgent Care issues. Excellent professional leadership, team working, advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills are all key to this role. You will be flexible to the needs of the role and service and will support the Lead Nurse in developing the service to assure safe, patient centred and effective care delivery applying the 4 pillars of practice at an advanced level.
To meet the needs of UCSF hours will include a range of shift patterns which include, evenings, nights, weekends, daytime and public holidays. Travel across Fife will be required with UCSF centres at QMH, VHK and St Andrews.
In return, we are fully committed to supporting you with orientation, access to Personal and professional Development Planning, clinical supervision, coaching and mentorship.
Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have this in place.
Informal enquiries to Fran Simpson, Lead Nurse, fran.simpson@nhs.scot
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.
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