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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.
NHS Lothian 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 Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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An exciting opportunity has become available for a newly developed post as Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Trainee ANP in the Flow Centre. The Flow Centre operates a 24/7 centralised service to support the flow of patients across all adult acute sites in Lothian. It works with GPs, Health & Social Care Partnerships, NHS 24, the Scottish Ambulance Service and acute hospital staff to create clear pathways for admission and access to alternatives to admission NHS Lothian’s Flow Centre has changed the way unscheduled and urgent care is delivered. The current team of Clinical Nurse Advisors provides a clinical service 24/7. They receive referrals via NHS 24 and carry out a virtual consultation with the patient. Their role is to assess the urgency of the clinical presentation and to triage to the most appropriate service, signposting to alternative pathways and diverting patients away from hospital and front door areas. Approximately 30% of patients referred by NHS 24, Scottish Ambulance Service and health care professionals are now being treated either in the community setting or at an outpatient, same day service or Minor Injury clinic.
Under the leadership of a newly appointed Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner, the Advanced Nurse Practitioner role will be core to the clinical model for future service delivery and nursing strategy. Using clinical decision-making skills and agreed clinical pathways of care, the ANPs will maximise opportunities for patient navigation to ensure that each individual is seen in the right place, by the right person at the right time. With Executive oversight, the Flow Centre continues to evolve in its form and function into one of Scotland’s Flow Navigation Centres.
The ANP/Trainee ANP posts will be integrated on a rotational basis with the Same Day Emergency Care service at the WGH and St John’s Hospital, in addition to acute services, RIE, providing the opportunity to retain and develop acute clinical skills and experience. The posts are open to trainees also, who will be supported to undertake the training under Annex 21.
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.
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 Lisa Stewart (Service Manager) lisa.stewart@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk 0131 446 4540
*Please note this is a Trainee post, therefore Annex 21 applies*
For trainees covered by Annex 21 where the period of training lasts for between one and four years, pay will be as follows:
- up to 12 months prior to completion of training: 75 per cent of the pay band maximum of the fully qualified rate;
- more than one but less than two years prior to completion of training: 70 per cent of the pay band maximum of the qualified rate of the qualified;
- more than two but less than three years prior to completion of training: 65 per cent of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate.
- more than three years from completion of training: 60 per cent of the pay band maximum of the fully qualified rate.
For further guidance on Annex 21 – please follow this link: Annex 21 – Arrangements for pay and banding of trainees