Job Advert
Care Home Assurance Nurse
Band 6
£31,800-£39,169
This post is fixed term until 31st March 2022
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full-time Care Home Assurance Nurses, Band 6, to join the Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership on a fixed term contract until 31st March 2022.
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting care assurance visits within Care Homes across Aberdeen City and providing expertise to support the implementation of improvement work through education and sharing of best practice. The post holders will work with the care home staff and ACH&SCP colleagues to support homes to meet care requirements using a quality improvement approach.
The successful applicant will have excellent communication and team working skills, have an interest in quality improvement and be passionate about supporting the delivery of high quality care in the Care Home setting.
Post-registration experience is required, ideally in a public health, quality improvement or care assurance, however, applications from other registered nurses who have transferable skills and a passion for working in the community setting may also be considered.
The core hours of work are between 08:00 and 16:30 and could include some weekend working.
As this is a fixed term post, if you are an existing NHS Grampian permanent employee and are interested in the role, please speak with your manager prior to submitting your application form with a view to having a secondment agreed in principle and an ability to start immediately if you were successful following interview. Please include within your application form that you have undertaken this or your application may not be progressed.
Time is extremely precious at the moment within the NHS, please allow us to use our time as best as we can by only applying if you meet as a minimum all of the essential elements of the person specification. You must evidence your skillset within your application.
The advert will close at Midnight on Thursday 6th May 2021. Interviews will take place using Microsoft Teams. Please note that in the event that sufficient applications are received before the closing date, this post may close early.
Informal enquiries to: Julia Graham (Care Homes Lead Nurse for Aberdeen City) on 07772579417 or email Julia.graham2@nhs.scot