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This is an exciting opportunity to help develop and transform nursing practice within In-Hours Urgent Care in Fife.
We are seeking to recruit two dynamic individuals to the role of Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) to support and enhance effective care and leadership.
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner or Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will apply high levels of decision making to assess and treat patients across a range of community settings. 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. 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.
The role is challenging and varied. You could find yourself assessing patients in a GP practice, carrying out home visits or providing urgent care for care home residents.
As a Registered General Nurse with substantial post registration experience, you will be educated or be prepared to work towards an appropriate Masters level qualification in Advanced Practice which enables competence in:
• Clinical assessment and decision-making
• Non-medical prescribing- V300
• Research
• Advancing Primary and Community Care
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 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 4 pillars
of practice at an advanced level.
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).
For informal enquiries, please contact Kerin Bell, Lead Nurse on 01383 565438 ext. 35438 or email kerin.bell@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.