Associate Director of Nursing Interface Services
Shape the Future of Unscheduled Care in Fife
This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional senior nursing leader to join NHS Fife as our new Associate Director of Nursing Interface Services. This newly created post will play a pivotal role within a triumvirate leadership model, working alongside a newly appointed Associate Medical Director and Service Manager to shape, lead and transform the delivery of integrated interface services, helping shape new models of care that improve outcomes for people across Fife.
This post, will form part of an interface triumvirate and will be central to delivery of NHS Fife’s NMAHP Strategy Caring for Fife Together 20262030, supporting our ambition to create services where our people thrive, our processes enable excellence, and prevention of illness and harm is embedded in everything we do.
The role also has a critical contribution to both national and local unscheduled care improvement programmes, ensuring NHS Fife continues to develop responsive, safe, person-centred services that improve flow, reduce delays and deliver better experiences for patients and staff.
About the Role
As Associate Director of Nursing Interface Services, you will provide strategic and professional nursing leadership across a complex and evolving portfolio including:
Urgent and unscheduled care pathways
Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC)
Hospital at Home
Virtual wards and remote monitoring
Flow navigation and discharge optimisation
Frailty pathways
Community interface services
Admission avoidance models
You will work across organisational boundaries, bringing together Acute Services, Health and Social Care Partnership, Primary Care and wider system partners to strengthen whole-system working and improve patient flow across Fife.
This is a highly influential role with responsibility for leading transformational change, supporting workforce redesign, advancing practice and ensuring robust professional assurance, clinical governance and care quality across the portfolio.
About You
We are looking for a highly credible and compassionate senior nurse leader who can operate strategically across complex systems and inspire change.
You will bring:
Significant senior nursing leadership experience within NHS Scotland
Extensive experience in urgent and unscheduled care
Experience in interface services, flow improvement or service redesign
Strong knowledge of professional assurance, governance and quality improvement
Experience leading transformational change across organisational boundaries
Excellent influencing, communication and partnership-working skills
A visible, values-based and person-centred leadership style
Experience in Hospital at Home, virtual services, advanced practice development or digitally enabled models of care would be highly advantageous.
Why Join NHS Fife?
This is a unique opportunity to influence care delivery at scale and shape the future of nursing leadership across one of Scotland’s most ambitious health systems.
At NHS Fife, we are committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care while creating innovative and sustainable services for the future. You will join a supportive senior leadership team with a strong focus on collaboration, quality and improvement.
We welcome applications from individuals with the experience, commitment and leadership capability to contribute to the continued development of high-quality, sustainable services and improved outcomes for people across Fife.
For informal enquiries or discussion, please contact Norma Beveridge, Director of Nursing (Acute) at [email protected] or Gillian McAuley, Executive Nurse Director at [email protected]
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A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
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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.
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