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Urgent Care Services Fife (UCSF) currently provide Urgent Care to the population of Fife and Kinross. Under normal circumstances, UCSF is operational in the Out of Hours period when Fife GP Practices are closed which amount to 118 hours per week from 18:00 - 08:00 hrs and 24/7 at weekends. UCSF works from 3 bases, St Andrews Community Hospital, Queen Margaret and the Victoria Hospital.
A development opportunity has arisen to join UCSF to assist with providing healthcare worker support. You will have excellent communication, organisational and problem-solving skills with the ability to build effective working relationships within a demanding and busy service. Working alongside GPs, nurses, and non-clinical staff your role would include supporting clinical staff to deliver safe, patient centred care, setting up the primary care centre and effective management of equipment, stocking up store room and cupboards, general tidying of departments, covering staff breaks, escorting and assisting patients and general support and assistance within the primary care centre.
You should have a SVQ Level 3 in Health Care or equivalent experience or be prepared to work towards this or a similar qualification. You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work under pressure, an ability to prioritise your own workload is essential. Previous hospital or caring experience is also desirable.
Please note the salary for this post is pro rata to part time hours.
For informal enquiries please contact Fran Simpson, Lead Nurse at fran.simpson@nhs.scot.
As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.
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.
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.
Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Changes to our services - Disclosure Scotland
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.
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.