Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job Advert

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner who has professional leadership and management experience combined with a proven track record in change management and service redesign to join the Management Team of the Walk-In Service (Urgent Care).

You will support the delivery of high standards of safe, effective and person-centred care within a robust framework of clinical, financial and staff governance. A priority for this role is to support co-production and engagement of the workforce, our partners and service users in developing the service. This will require excellent interpersonal skills and being proactive in working collaboratively with colleagues across health, social care and the voluntary sector to facilitate partnership working and deliver quality standards and strategic priorities.

Offering a strong knowledge and understanding of current policy and evidence base relating to urgent care, you will work closely with the Clinical Services Manager, Lead Nurse, Clinical Lead – Professional Development and Head of Nursing to develop and assure resilience and sustainable services. As a positive role model, you will promote professional standards for nursing care and a learning culture to support service excellence. You will evidence on-going professional and personal development and post graduate study and commitment to support the development of others.

As a Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner you will apply high levels of decision making to assess and treat paediatric and adult patients presenting in the Walk-In Service (Urgent Care). As part of the senior clinical team, 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, carers and families. This role involves providing specialist advice and education to healthcare professionals, other agencies, carers, clients and relatives. Within this role you will also be required to work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries to develop the service to improve practice, implementing and evaluating evidence-based standards, guidelines and policy.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop nursing practice. As a Registered General Nurse with substantial post registration experience, you will be educated to MSc level in Advanced Practice or have extensive experience in Advanced Nursing Practice. You will be an independent non-medical prescriber (V300) . You will also have experience supporting the professional development of others including teaching, clinical supervision and the application of research and audit, underpinned by a strong knowledge of current urgent care/primary care issues. 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 Lead Nurse in developing the service to assure safe, patient centred and effective care delivery applying the 4 pillars of practice at an advanced level. To meet the needs of the service, hours will include some evening working, weekends and public holidays. Some travel across Fife will be required to QMH, VHK and St Andrews. There will also be a requirement to participate in the Urgent Care service management on call rota, with a 1 in 8 weekly commitment.

In return, we are fully committed to supporting you with orientation, access to Personal and Professional Development Planning, clinical supervision, coaching and mentorship.

Informal Enquiries : Kerin Bell, Lead Nurse email: View email address on apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk

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 website here. 

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.

AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your application—but your answers must be your own.

• Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically.
• Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers.
• Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements.

Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand you—not an AI tool.