Nurse Practitioner - Surgical Ambulatory Care Unit

NHS National Services Scotland; Airdrie; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Scotland is looking for a Registered Nurse to assess patient care needs within a multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include developing care programs, leading the nursing team, and ensuring quality care delivery. Ideal candidates will hold a relevant nursing degree, have current NMC registration, and possess leadership skills. This is a full-time role based at University Hospital Monklands, offering a fixed-term duration of 12 months along with benefits including annual leave and NHS Pension Scheme.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

NHS Pension Scheme

Paid sick leave

Occupational health services

Qualifications

• Current NMC Registration and revalidation.
• Post graduate expertise within nursing specialty.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs and develop care programmes.
• Initiate treatment and manage a defined workload.
• Lead day-to-day management of nursing services.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Leadership skills

Excellent communication

Time management

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Nursing

Job description

The Role

As part of a multidisciplinary team the post holder will have responsibility for assessment of care needs and the development of programmes of care, and / or the implementation and evaluation of these programmes ensuring the delivery of high quality care to patients.

Assessment of presenting conditions, initiation of investigations, determination of differential diagnosis, initiate treatment, prescribing and where appropriate discharge patients.

In the absence of the Team Leader/ Senior Charge Nurse workload will be assigned by the post holder, who will have responsibility for managing defined workload within professional guidelines and competency framework.
NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring

• Registered Nurse with current revalidation and NMC Registration.
• Educated to/operating at Degree Level.
• Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with this speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within this speciality / area of practice.
• Leadership skills to ensure optimum day to day management of the service.
• Further education/evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days/courses/post graduate qualification e.g. undertake and complete Advanced Clinical Assessment and V300 independent and supplementary prescribing.
• The post holder will possess excellent team-working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative.
• Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Effective time management skills
• Working knowledge of information technology.

It would be great if you also have

• Demonstrable post registration experience.
• Evidence of audit and evaluation of new initiatives.

Contract type

Fixed Term or Secondment for 12 months

Full time

37 hours

Please note this is a fixed term post for 12 months. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Surgical Ambulatory Care Unit within University Hospital Monklands.

The working pattern for this role is Monday to Sunday Long Days.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Sioned Richards, Senior Nurse Advanced Practice, via [e-mail]

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Nicole Hetherington, Recruitment Administrator on [e-mail] (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire’s benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

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