Job reference: 208409
Salary: Band 6 (£39,912 - £48,635)
Job closing date: 05/03/2025
Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
Location: Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 29
Job posted date: 19/02/2025
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
Department: COMMUNITY NURSING PREPARE 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.

To provide and develop a service providing specialist substance use assessment, treatment and advice to a designated caseload of women and their families who use drugs and alcohol during pregnancy through to two years post partum.

To provide specialist training, consultancy and advice, to promote and co-ordinate care between services and agencies involved in providing services for women with substance use; including CMHTs, in-patient mental health and general hospital services, non-statutory services, social work teams, GPs, midwives, prison services, locality drug teams and other primary health care staff, and to provide specialist training, consultancy and advice to these groups. There will be particular emphasis on Child Protection.

To provide a specialist assessment and advice service on substance use issues during child protection procedures.

To deliver high quality care and to communicate effectively with other relevant professionals.

To participate in key decision making processes related to this client group.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact CAITLIN.PALMER@NHS.SCOT or 07790825950.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

Please note: As this post is part-time the salary will be pro-rata.

The use of the term “Senior” or “Junior” in this post refers only to the level of experience and responsibility required for this post rather than age. As such, applications from people of all ages are welcomed, subject to meeting the relevant criteria.

We are recruiting to the post of Senior Community Mental Health Nurse

NHS Lothian is excited to be recruiting to a Senior Community Mental Health Nurse at Westerhailes Health Living Centre

We are looking for an inspirational leader who is caring, compassionate and motivated to join our strong, empowered and highly skilled nursing family.

Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. It also demonstrates what you can expect from our organisation and what you can aspire to in your own career development. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. We are committed to supporting the development of a nursing and midwifery workforce that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader as well as demonstrating alignment with the values and ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. We are committed to providing the strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, our education co-ordinators, robust induction programmes and preceptorship as well as working with you to build on your leadership strengths.

Recruitment process – We use a values and competency based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set our in our Strategic Plan. Within NHS Lothian, Nursing and Midwifery interviews are linked to our Nursing & Midwifery Strategic Plan. We aim to offer an equitable experience and are sharing interview questions in advance. A selection of the interview questions can be found on our Careers site: How to Apply – NHS Lothian Careers



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