This is an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to support patients with urgent on-the-day care needs in the local community. This fixed term role for 6 months (secondment considered) to cover maternity leave will support the General Practitioners and the Multi-disciplinary Team to deliver safe, effective and person-centred care to patients in a primary care setting. Successful applicants may work in GP practices, visit residents in care homes or attend to patients in their own homes. There is also a commitment to the Four Pillars of Advanced Practice, allowing for the development of skills in education, mentoring, audit, leadership, and quality improvement.
Applicants will therefore be required to be working in an Advanced Practice role and have undertaken MSC (level 11) Advance Practice studies to PG Dip level or have equivalent experience in an advanced practice role.
Applicants will require excellent communication skills and be able to work as a member of the wider Health and Social Care Team. They should have the ability to work autonomously, utilising their own initiative, clinical judgement and decision making to support the nursing workforce within the practices. This is an opportunity to join a dynamic team, with quality at the heart of all we do.
If applying for a secondment, please ensure you have the support of your current line manager prior to making an application.
Successful candidates may, on occasion, be required to work in an area other than those to which they are allocated.
Informal Enquiries: Kerin Bell, Lead Nurse kerin.bell@nhs.scot 07808870023
Please note the salary for this post is pro rata to part time hours if applicable.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
Fixed Term/Secondment Opportunity – Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found here Hub • Blink (joinblink.com) 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 in place a secondment agreement, from their existing board to apply for this post.
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.
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.
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.
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.