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Job reference: 190202
Salary: Band 6 (£37,831 - £46,100)
Job closing date: 09/07/2024
Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
Location: Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37
Job posted date: 25/06/2024
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Tayside
Department: Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Team

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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.


Ninewells Hospital Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Team (OPAT) are delighted to bring to advert an opportunity for a full-time specialist nurse to join the team. The OPAT specialist nurses work closely with the Infectious Diseases consultants and specialist registrars, to deliver a service to patients across many specialities within our organisation with a range of infections requiring intravenous antibiotics or complex oral antibiotics as an outpatient to facilitate safe, effective and timeous discharge from hospital.   

 

Experience of complex infection, the infection process, and antimicrobial stewardship is highly desirable. You will be supported to become an autonomous practitioner in the review and assessment of the patient from referral, to include history taking, clinical assessment, and non-medical prescribing, and must be willing to complete both Clinical Assessment and Non Medical Prescribing Modules.


 You will be expected to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.


You must be registered on Sub-part 1: RN1 or RNA or Sub-part 2: RN2 of the UK NMC Register 


Informal enquiries to:  Lesley Kram, Senior Nurse – Admission avoidance, Ninewells, Ext 59252, email – lesley.kram@nhs.scot


Hours of work are:  37 per week.


NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37-hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Recruiting Board.



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