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Looking for a rewarding Career in the NHS with enhanced salary and benefits package?
Are you a Nurse Practitioner looking for a new opportunity?
Are you passionate about delivering an exceptional level of patient care?
Can you demonstrate a wide variety of experience within a clinical setting?
Who We Are
As NHS Scotland's unique provider of a national tele-health and tele-care service, we are responsible for the delivery of health advice and information by telephone and online services to the population of Scotland 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. NHS 24 is a patient-focused service providing the people of Scotland with triage, advice, guidance, referral and information on health and healthcare services.
Where We Are:
Our Regional Centres are located at Hillington, Cardonald, Clydebank, South Queensferry, Dundee and Aberdeen. This role will be based in our Dumfries and Galloway Local office.
This Role:
- As the service has evolved, we have been introducing new ways of working and there is now a unique opportunity for Nurses to perform high quality telephone assessments, but also to provide Clinical Supervision to members within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Act as an autonomous practitioner providing a comprehensive telephone triage and clinical assessment service to patients and/or their carers/relatives resulting in a safe and appropriate clinical decision
- Provide real time clinical support to NHS 24 frontline staff resulting in safe, appropriate and person-centred outcomes
- Facilitate the provision of accurate healthcare information, self-care/health improvement advice or, where applicable, referral to the appropriate level and location of care, in order to meet the holistic and therapeutic requirements of the patient/carer
- You will use a variety of different models to deliver clinical supervision to non- clinical staff.
Who are we looking for?
- You will be registered as an Adult nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register
- You will possess excellent clinical decision-making skills, with the ability to provide continuous clinical supervision and leadership
- Extensive post registration experience, preferably within an acute or primary care setting, with a broad range of knowledge across a number of specialties
- Critical decision-making skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Our Enhanced Salary Package
NHS 24 offers a total reward package, with a permanent contract on Band 6 £39,912 - £48,635* (pro rata for part-time hours). Placement on salary scale is dependent on confirmation of previous relevant NHS service.
Competitive salary enhancements for working unsocial hours are in addition to the above basic starting salary of £39,912, this means that the following hourly rates would be applicable -
• Basic Hourly Rate of £20.68
• Saturday / After 8pm Weekday Hourly Rate of £31.03
• Sunday / Public Holiday Hourly Rate of £41.37
Earning Potential Example
As NHS 24 is predominately an out of hours employer, this means that actual earnings will include payments made for working evenings, nights, weekend shifts and public holidays.
As an example, Clinical Supervisors, on a starting salary of £39,912 working 37,30 or 24 hours rotas with 5 out of 8 weekends, could expect to receive estimated earning as follows -
Contracted hours | Monthly Basic Pay* | Monthly Enhancements | Monthly total* | |||
37 | £3,326 | £1,197 | £4,523 | |||
30 | £2,696 | £970 | £3,666 | |||
24 | £2,157 | £776 | £2,933 | |||
* Figures shown are before deductions | ||||||
Shift patterns available:
24 hours 5 out of 8 weekends are worked on average across an 8 week rota pattern (out of hours only).
Example rotas are available in the job pack.
Additional Benefits
We also offer you many supportive policies to enhance your employee journey and have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme Provider, Cycle to Work Scheme, bursary scheme and a range of learning and development.
As an NHS Scotland employee, you will be entitled to:
- 35 days annual leave (rising to 41) pro-rata
- development opportunities including study bursaries, e-learning and classroom-based courses
- enhanced pay for working during out of hours period (see above)
- enrolment into the Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA) pension scheme
- NHS discounts on goods and services
- HELP, employee support and assistance
NHS 24 shift patterns command an average uplift of 33% in addition to the basic salary. Dependant on individual shift patterns, this information is indicative only, and cannot be taken as guaranteed.
Interested?
Please access the Digital Job Pack and Person Specification for full details of NHS 24 and this opportunity as well as the Digital Candidate Application Guide which will support you in your application.
We recommend that prior to application candidates read all the information provided in the Job Pack as it contains much of the information about NHS 24 and this vacancy to support a successful application.
NHS 24 is an equal opportunities employer committed to advancing equality and particularly welcomes applications from groups of people currently underrepresented within the workforce. We are a committed participant in the Disability Confident Leader Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for our vacancies.