An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced registered nurse to temporarily join our team as a community staff nurse within the District Nursing Service in the Dunfermline locality for 43 weeks to cover for maternity leave.
Applicants to the post require to have significant nursing experience and demonstrable leadership and communication skills and evidence on continuing development. Extensive clinical expertise and knowledge are essential, along with a desire to assist the Community Nursing Team to deliver a high quality service. You must be passionate about a career in community care services and be motivated to work autonomously within a dynamic environment as part of the wide Health and Social Care Partnership.
The post will include working weekends and public holidays and you must have an ability to work in other areas in NHS Fife if the service warrants it.
You will be required to work within a 24 hour, 7 day Community Nursing Service.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
An ability to travel across the locality is essential.
Please note the salary for this post is pro rata to part time hours.
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.
For informal enquiries please contact Jan Stenhouse, District Nurse Team Leader on 07774435235 or email: jan.stenhouse@nhs.scot.
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 found here.
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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