Community Staff Nurse

NHS National Services Scotland; St Andrews; Vor Ort; GBP 29.000 - 36.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

NHS Scotland is seeking an experienced staff nurse to join the North East Fife locality community nursing service in St Andrews. The post requires registration as a Nurse with community nursing experience and a commitment to high-quality patient care.

You will cover weekends, public holidays and evenings as needed, travel across the locality, and work within a 24/7 community service. PVG clearance and right-to-work in the UK are required before appointment.

Qualifikationen

• Registered Nurse with Community Nursing experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Willingness to work weekends, public holidays and evenings.
• Ability to travel across the locality.

Aufgaben

• Work within a 24/7 Community Nursing Service.
• Provide evening cover as required.
• Be able to work in other areas across the Fife-Wide division if needed.

Kenntnisse

Community nursing experience

Communication skills

Clinical expertise

Nurse with PVG knowledge

Ausbildung

NMC registration

Jobbeschreibung

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced staff nurse to work within the North East Fife locality community nursing Service in Fife – (St Andrews).

You are required to be a registered Nurse, with Community Nursing experience. You should have excellent communication skills and extensive clinical expertise and knowledge are essential, as well as a desire to assist the Community Nursing Team to deliver a high quality service.

The post will include working weekends and public holidays and you must have an ability to provide evening cover as required in addition to being able to work in other areas across the Fife-Wide division if the service warrants it.

This post holder will be required to work within a 24 hour, 7 day Community Nursing Service.

An ability to travel across the locality is essential.

Informal Enquiries: District Nurse Team Lead Louise Plunkett on [e-mail] or 07867997918

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

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 websitehere.

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 sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

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.

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