Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity to join our established ANP team within FV Prison healthcare and participate in the ongoing development and transformation of nursing practice within the custodial setting.

Are you a dynamic individual who enjoys a challenging but rewarding role in addition to ongoing support with your professional development?

If this is you, then apply for the role of Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) and become part of our ANP team.

As a Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner you will apply high levels of decision making to assess and treat patients within our 3 national prisons.

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.

This role also involves providing specialist advice and education to healthcare professionals, SPS partners and patients. Within this role you will also be required to work collaboratively across our prison healthcare teams to develop the service to improve practice, implementing and evaluating evidence based standards, guidelines and policy.

As a Registered General Nurse with substantial post registration experience you must already have completed and be utilising in practice at least one of the below Masters level qualifications in Advanced Practice and be willing or already under taking a second which enables competence in:

• Advanced Clinical assessment
• Clinical Decision Making
• Non-medical prescribing- V300

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 Healthcare Manager in developing the service to assure safe, patient centred and effective care delivery applying the 4 pillars of practice at an advanced level.

Hours are Monday to Friday hrs and occasional Saturday morning clinic (approx 1 in
7) to facilitate admission clinic at HMP Stirling. Ability to travel across all 3 prison sites is required (at times this may mean travel between 2 sites in one day) therefore ability and willingness to travel throughout the area of service delivery is essential for this post.

The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at

Please note a current UK NMC pin is required for this post.

Annex 21 Pay arrangements apply

Trainee ANP Candidates will be placed on Band 7 Annex 21 and will be subject to completion of an agreed competency framework. Training will be completed over a maximum period of 21 months from date of appointment.

This post will also be considered as in training position under Annex 21 of the Agenda for Change terms & conditions. For more information, please visit the following link:  (nhsemployers.org) Specifically, section 2(iii) and section 3 in relation to this vacancy.

For informal enquiries, please contact Ailsa Russell Lead Nurse ailsa.russellt or Leona Paget, Service Manager on Leona.pagett or Fiona Donnelly Healthcare manager on Fiona.donellyt

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applicants who require sponsorship to work in the UK are advised to carefully review the eligibility criteria for the Skilled Worker or Health and Care Worker visa routes. NHS Forth Valley may be able to offer sponsorship for certain roles, provided the post meets the minimum salary threshold and any other required criteria. If you are currently working in the UK on a Skilled Worker visa, transitional arrangements may apply.

Please note that sponsorship is not guaranteed and is assessed on a case‑by‑case basis following interview and at the commencement of pre‑employment checks. For further information on visa requirements and sponsorship eligibility, please refer to the UK Government guidance.

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