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246370 Lead Nurse/Midwife – Quality Improvement and Standards
Are you
- a motivated and dynamic individual with strong professional credibility
- Enthusiastic about high quality care and improving outcomes for patients and staff
- Confident working across teams and services, with the ability to influence and lead
- Keen to develop your leadership skills in a strategic, corporate role?
An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen to join the Corporate Nursing team as a Lead Nurse/Midwife – Quality Improvement and Standards.
Are you a motivated and dynamic individual who is enthusiastic about high quality care and improving outcomes for patients and staff. Are you keen to develop your leadership skills in a strategic, corporate role.
As a lead Nurse/Midwife, you will:
- Provide professional leadership to support high quality, safe and effective nursing care
- Lead and contribute to standards and assurance activity
- Work collaboratively with clinical and professional colleagues across the system
- Support the delivery of national and local priorities, ensuring care is person centred and evidence based.
There are x2 posts for 12-month fixed term/secondment initially.
Work pattern is Monday to Friday with flexibility to work hybrid and flexible working patterns are supported in line with service needs and policy.
For informal enquiries, contact Katy Smith, Head of Nursing Quality Improvement and Standards at email: katy.smith2@nhs.scot.
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.
Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
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. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.
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.
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: Disclosure Scotland Changes.
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