Healthcare Support Worker

This is an exciting opportunity for a healthcare support worker to join the Day Surgery Team within the Queen Margaret Hospital. The post will cover both the Day Case and 23 hour Service. The day surgery unit provides patient centred care to patient’s requiring day case surgery or 23 hour stay surgery in a stand alone unit.

You will have a genuine interest in day surgery and in providing an excellent level of holistic care to patients and their families. You will be an effective communicator and have the ability to work individually and as part of a team. This post will give you the opportunity to enhance and develop your existing knowledge and skills and develop clinical expertise within this clinical specialty.

For informal enquiries please contact Nola Cassidy Senior Charge Nurse Day Surgery Unit ext 23010. Or Charge Nurse Shanon Wilson and Nicolle Scott on

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

Please note as this a part time post salary is pro rata

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.

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.

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  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 foundhere.
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.

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.