Cardiac Clinical Nurse Specialist / Trainee Cardiac Nurse Specialist - Band 5 or 6 (Annex 21) - SG

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and innovative nurse to join NHS Fife’s Community Cardiac Specialist Nurse Team as a Cardiac Clinical Nurse Specialist.

The Cardiac CNS Service operates Monday to Friday during business hours. We provide holistic and evidenced based specialist care to people diagnosed with various cardiac conditions Fife. We have 2 bases Stratheden Hospital and Lynebank Hospital. You will be based at Stratheden but will work Fife wide as required. You will participate in the ongoing development, implementation and evaluation of the service thereby improving the management, treatment and support of patients with cardiac conditions, and their carers/families. The service aims to support self management, improve quality of life and reduce unnecessary hospital admission / re-admission. The service provides seamless care between the primary care and acute care settings.

You Will Be Offered a Band 6 If

You are experienced Cardiac CNS with a non-medical prescribing qualification and have undertaken Level 11 post graduate qualifications in clinical assessment & decision making. As a band 6, part of your role will involve supporting colleagues.

You will be offered a band 5 to band 6 under Annex 21 if:

You are an experienced nurse with significant cardiology experience, educated to degree level with evidence of recent CPD and willing to undertake the qualifications listed above. This will be done under Annex 21 (see attached for more info).

You will require excellent communication skills and be able to work as a member of the wider Health and Social Care Team with the ability to work autonomously utilising your own initiative, clinical judgement and decision making.

As this is Fife wide community post you will be required to reliably and efficiently travel whenever required across various sites/ bases/ and patient’s homes across Fife.

• Candidates must indicate on application form which post they are applying for.
  
  

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 Katrina Wilson, Lead Nurse - katrina.wilson@nhs.scot.

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.

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 Fife welcomes applications from all sections of society.

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.