An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and innovative nurse to join NHS Fife’s Community Cardiac Specialist Nurse Team as a Heart Failure (HF) Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist (ACNS).
The HF CNS Service operates Monday to Friday during business hours. However, a new model of a 7 day working week may be implemented in the future.
We provide holistic and evidenced based specialist care to people diagnosed with HF across Fife. We have 2 bases Stratheden hospital and Lynebank hospital. The post holder will participate in the ongoing development, implementation and evaluation of the HF clinical service thereby improving the management, treatment and support of patients with HF, and their carers/families.
This is a specialist, autonomous role involving advanced assessment, medication optimisation, patient education, and close collaboration with cardiology, primary care, and community teams.
You will manage your own caseload, contribute to ongoing service development, and play a key role in preventing avoidable hospital admissions through proactive, patientcentred care. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong clinical judgement, excellent communication skills, and a passion for improving outcomes for people with longterm cardiac conditions.
We offer a supportive, forwardthinking team environment with opportunities for continued professional development and potential to support evolving service models.
If you are an experienced cardiac or longterm conditions nurse looking to advance your specialist practice, we would love to hear from you.
The successful candidate will be offered a band 7 if : You are experienced HF nurse specialist with a non-medical prescribing qualification and have undertaken Level 11 post graduate qualifications in clinical assessment & decision making and chronic heart failure. As a band 7 and senior member of the team, part of your role will involve supporting the Team Leader under the leadership pillar, in developing the service and deputising as required for the team leader in their absence. Previous leadership experience is desirable but not essential, as training will be given.
The successful candidate will be offered the trainee post under annex 21 if: You are an experienced nurse with significant cardiology experience, educated to degree level with evidence of recent CPD and willing to undertake the qualifications listed above. This will be done under Annex 21 (see attached for more info).
You will require excellent communication skills and be able to work as a member of the wider Health and Social Care Team with the ability to work autonomously utilising your own initiative, clinical judgement and decision making.
As this is Fife wide community post you will be required to reliably and efficiently travel whenever required across various sites/ bases/ and patient’s homes across Fife.
- Candidates must indicate on application form which post they are applying for.
Trainees are paid a percentage of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate which is dependent on the duration of the training period (see terms and conditions).
Informal Enquiries: Amanda McLelland, Team Leader 01592 729455
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. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK websitehere.
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 sponsoredBEFORE 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.
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