Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse who has professional leadership and management experience to join the Leadership Team of Urgent Care Service Fife (UCSF).

You will provide visible clinical leadership and in partnership with the GP Clinical lead, Lead Nurse and Service Manager you will support significant service change as we develop service provision in Fife.

You will support the delivery of high standards of safe, effective and person-centred care within a robust framework of clinical, financial and staff governance. A priority for this role is to support co-production and engagement of the UCSF workforce, our partners and service users in developing services. This will require excellent interpersonal skills and being proactive in working collaboratively with colleagues across health, social care and the voluntary sector to facilitate partnership working and deliver quality standards and strategic priorities.

Offering a strong knowledge and understanding of current policy and evidence base relating to in-hours and out of hours urgent care, you will work closely with the Clinical Services Manager, Lead Nurse, Clinical Lead – Professional Development and Head of Nursing to develop and assure resilience and sustainable services. As a positive role model you will promote professional standards for nursing care and a learning culture to support service excellence.

You will evidence on-going professional and personal development and post graduate study and commitment to support the development of others.

As a Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner you will apply high levels of decision making to assess and treat elderly, paediatric and adult patients presenting in UCSF. As part of the senior clinical team, you will ensure patient health needs are met through the autonomous provision of diagnosis and the management of patient conditions through assessment, treatment, and review planning process. This will be facilitated in partnership with patients, carers and families.

This role involves providing specialist advice and education to healthcare professionals, other agencies, carers, clients and relatives. Within this role you will also be required to work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries to develop the service to improve practice, implementing and evaluating evidence based standards, guidelines and policy.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop nursing practice within urgent care. As a Registered General Nurse with substantial post registration experience, you will be educated to/or near completion of MSc level with an Advanced Nurse Practitioner qualification, be an independent nurse prescriber and have completed, or be prepared to complete, the Diploma in Urgent Medical Care. You will also have experience supporting the professional development of others, including teaching, clinical supervision and the application of research and audit underpinned by a strong knowledge of current Urgent Care issues.

Excellent professional leadership, team working, advanced clinical assessment and decision making skills are all key to this role. You will be flexible to the needs of the role and service and will support the Lead Nurse in developing the service to assure safe, patient centred and effective care delivery, applying the 4 pillars of practice at an advanced level.

To meet the needs of UCSF, hours will include a range of shift patterns which may include, evenings, nights, weekends, daytime and public holidays, and travelling across Fife. You may be required to work within Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital Urgent Care Walk-In Service and urgent centres at Queen Margaret Hospital, Victoria Hospital and St Andrews, or GP practices across Fife.

There will also be a requirement to participate in the UCSF service management on call rota with a 1 in 8 weekly commitment. In return, we are fully committed to supporting you with orientation, access to Personal and professional Development Planning, clinical supervision, coaching and mentorship.

For informal enquiries, please contact Kerin Bell, Lead Nurse, lt for Urgent Care Services.

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