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An excellent opportunity has arisen for a person who has a proven track record of leadership and management experience to join the Mental Health Management Team in Fife.
We are looking for a Lead Nurse for Specialist Mental Health Services. The role covers services across a number of hospital and community settings within Fife.
You will be a Registered Mental Nurse with current NMC registration and evidence of continued professional development to degree level or equivalent. You will have significant experience at Band 7 within a mental health care setting and be passionate about promoting and developing mental health services.
This is an exciting time for mental health nursing and as a visible clinical leader you will support opportunities for service redesign and transformational change in line with the objectives within the NHS Fife Clinical Strategy, the Health and Social Care Partnership’s Strategic Plan and national professional nursing priorities.
With operational line management responsibility you will support the delivery of high standards of safe, effective and person centred care within a robust framework of clinical, financial and staff governance. A priority for this role is to support co-production and engagement of both the workforce and service users in developing services. This will involve being proactive in working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary colleagues across health, social care, independent and voluntary sector to facilitate partnership working to deliver high quality mental health services in Fife. You will be a positive professional role model and will support the development of nursing practice, high standards of professionalism and champion Excellence in Care.
Offering a strong knowledge and understanding of current mental health policy and evidence base, you will work closely with the Clinical Service Manager and Head of Nursing to develop sustainable services and support a holistic approach to the health and wellbeing of people within mental health services. You will evidence on-going professional and personal development and a commitment to support the development of others.
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.
For further information please contact Fraser Ross. Interim Clinical service manager, via email, on Fraser.ross@nhs.scot or via ext 35454
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A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
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