Community Staff Nurse

Post

Title:

Community Staff Nurse

Location:
North East Fife Locality

Salary/Banding:
Band 5

Hours:
Various hours 36 hrs

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced staff nurse to work within the North East Fife locality community nursing Service in Fife – (St.Andrews Pipeland/Blackfriars).

You are required to be a registered Nurse, with Community Nursing experience. You should be enthusiastic and have excellent communication skills and extensive clinical expertise and knowledge are essential, as well as a desire to assist the Community Nursing Team to deliver a high quality service.

The post will include working weekends and public holidays and you must have an ability to provide evening cover as required in addition to being able to work in other areas across the Fife-Wide division if the service warrants it.

This post holder will be required to work within a 24 hour, 7 day Community Nursing Service.

An ability to travel across the locality is essential.

Informal Enquiries:
District Nurse Team Lead Donna Sneddon donna.sneddont :

As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.

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

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.

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.