Advanced Nurse Practitioner

NHS National Services Scotland; Scotland; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Scotland seeks an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to support urgent care needs in the community. This role involves collaboration with General Practitioners and a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe, effective care, particularly in a care home setting. Suitable candidates must have substantial knowledge in advanced practice and demonstrate excellent communication skills. The position promotes autonomy and relies on comprehensive clinical judgement, providing an opportunity to enhance healthcare delivery within a driven team.

Benefits

Flexible working

Family-friendly policies

Support for disabled candidates

Qualifications

• Must be working in an Advanced Practice role.
• Experience in a care home setting preferred.
• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Support patients with urgent care needs in the community.
• Work with General Practitioners and the Multi-disciplinary Team.
• Utilise clinical judgement and decision-making to provide quality service.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Autonomy

Clinical judgement

Education

MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent experience

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to support patients with urgent on-the-day care needs in the local community. This role will support the General Practitioners and the Multi-disciplinary Team to deliver safe, effective and person-centred care to patients in a care home setting. You will take up a Care Home ANP role in an area where there service is well established, and supports care home residents to live healthy lives.

There is also a required commitment to the Four Pillars of Advanced Practice, allowing the practitioner to development skills in education, mentoring, audit, leadership, and quality improvement.

Applicants must already be working in an Advanced Practice role and have undertaken MSC (level 11) Advance Practice studies to PG Dip level OR have equivalent experience in an advanced practice role.

Applicants will require excellent communication skills and be able to work as a member of the wider Health and Social Care Team. They should also have the ability to work autonomously, utilising their own initiative, clinical judgement and decision-making to provide a quality service to both patients and GP practices.

This is an opportunity to join a driven team, with quality at the heart of all we do.

Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found here Hub • Blink (joinblink.com) If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have in place a secondment agreement, from their existing board to apply for this post.

Please note the salary for this post is pro rata to part time hours.

For informal enquiries, please contact Kerin Bell, Lead Nurse at [e-mail] or on 07808870023.

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.

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.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be foundhere.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.

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.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

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.