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Advanced Nurse Practitioner or Trainee Annex 21
This is an exciting development for the role of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) within Urgent Care Services Fife (UCSF), the Flow Navigation Hub (FNH) and Admissions Unit One. This is a rotational post, to allow you the opportunity to continue to develop, maintain and enhance your skills.
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner you will apply high levels of decision making to assess and treat paediatric and adult patients presenting in UCSF, FNH and AU1. As part of the senior clinical team you will ensure patient health needs are met through the autonomous provision of diagnosis and the management of patient conditions through assessment, treatment, and review planning process. This will be facilitated in partnership with patients, carers and families. This role involves providing specialist advice and education to healthcare professionals, other agencies, carers, clients and relatives. Within this role you will also be required to work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries to develop the service to improve practice, implementing and evaluating evidence based standards, guidelines and policy. In line with the redesign of Urgent Care you will have a role in ensuring patients are seen in the right place, at the right time by the right person.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop nursing practice within community based urgent care. As a Registered General Nurse with substantial post registration experience, you will be educated or prepared to work towards MSc level in an Advanced Nurse Practitioner Qualification and Non-Medical Prescriber qualification, have completed or be prepared to complete the Acute Illness Course. You will also have experience supporting the professional development of others including teaching, clinical supervision and the application of research and audit underpinned by a strong knowledge of current Acute and Urgent Care issues. Excellent professional leadership, team working, advanced clinical assessment and decision making skills are all key to this role. You will be flexible to the needs of the role and service and will support the Lead Nurse in developing the service to assure safe, patient centred and effective care delivery applying the Four Pillars of Practice at an advanced level.
To meet the needs of services, your hours will include a range of shift patterns which include, evenings, nights, weekends, day-time and public holidays. Travel across Fife will be required with UCSF centres at QMH, VHK and St Andrews.
In return, we are fully committed to supporting you with a robust programme of orientation, access to Personal and professional Development Planning, clinical supervision, coaching and mentorship.
Trainees are paid a percentage of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate which is dependent on the duration of the training period (see Terms and Conditions).
Informal Enquiries to Lynnette Marshall, Lead Nurse, lynnette.marshall2@nhs.scot or Martyn Berrie, Senior ANP, martyn.berrie@nhs.scot
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
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.
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.