Heart Failure Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist / Trainee Heart Failure Advanced Clinical Nurs ...

X1 30 hours - Base Stratheden Hospital (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
X1 22.5 hours - Base Stratheden Hospital (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)
(X2 posts - hours on job share basis)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for X2 dynamic and innovative nurses to join NHS Fife's Community Cardiac Specialist Nurse Team as an Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist (ACNS) for Heart Failure.

The Heart Failure CNS Service operates Monday to Friday during business hours. We provide holistic and evidenced based specialist care to people diagnosed with heart failure across Fife. We have 2 bases: Stratheden hospital and Lynebank hospital. You will participate in the ongoing development, implementation and evaluation of the HF clinical service, thereby improving the management, treatment, and support of patients with HF 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.

Successful candidates will be offered a band 7 if:

1. You are an experienced heart failure specialist nurse with a non-medical prescribing qualification and have undertaken Level 11 postgraduate qualifications in clinical assessment & decision making and chronic heart failure. As a band 7 and senior member of the team, part of your role will involve supporting the Team Leader under the leadership pillar, in developing the service and deputising as required for the team leader in their absence. Previous leadership experience is desirable but not essential, as training will be given.

Successful candidates will be offered a band 6 to band 7 under annex 21 if:

1. 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 utilizing your own initiative, clinical judgement, and decision making.

As this is a Fife wide community post, you will be required to reliably and efficiently travel whenever required across various sites/bases and patients' 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 - .

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

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.

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 Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.