196454 Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Band 8A (£56,992 - £61,522)

Nhs Lothian, Bruntsfield, City of Edinburgh

Full time
Permanent

Posted 6 days ago, 12 Sep | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

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Full Job Description

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.

The Lead Advanced Practitioner has operational responsibility for the running of the Flow Centre nursing service, including providing clinical, managerial and professional leadership in influencing the future service delivery and nursing strategy, accountable for the delivery and standards of care provided to patients, ensuring the care is safe, effective and person centred. The post holder will maintain 40% clinical practice working as an Advanced Practitioner between the Flow centre and rotation through Acute Sites and 60% operational management and development of service within Flow Centre. The clinical component of the Advanced Practitioner role within the Flow Centre will involve applying advanced knowledge and experience to support senior clinical decision making to the Access to Urgent Care/Resign of Urgent care pathways via virtual patient/Prof to Prof consultation. Within clinical rotation working patient facing as part of a Multidisciplinary team demonstrating advanced clinical assessment and decision making to ensure immediate management and safe patient care.

NHS Scotland is reducing their full time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Recruiting Board.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact Victoria.mulholland@nhs.scot or Carolyn.meldrum@nhs.scot