Head of Nursing Primary Care Transformation

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.

Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

The post holder is responsible and accountable for providing comprehensive and robust visible professional nursing leadership, care governance, quality assurance, guidance, support, direction and development of the nursing workforce across Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP), ensuring the delivery of high standards of professional and clinical nursing practice.

The post holder will provide visible professional nursing leadership, care governance, quality assurance, and develop the nursing workforce across Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP), ensuring the delivery of high standards of professional and clinical nursing practice.

Accountable to the Head of Service and Chief Nurse for maintaining and further developing high standards of nursing care provided to service users, ensuring compliance with best practice and national and local policies and guidelines; developing improvements in nursing practice and influencing future service delivery and nursing strategy.

Responsible for direct management of Clinical Nurse Managers for Mental Health, Vaccinations, Advanced Practice/CTACS and Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner, for all aspects of staff governance, recruitment and selection, appraisal and personal development planning and individual performance management as appropriate within areas of responsibility.

To be a visible nursing leader accessible across primary care and community settings, from whom staff, students, patients and their families can seek advice and support. This role will include the authority to instigate changes which ensures patient and their families receive timely patient centred, safe and effective care.

This post will have a delegated responsibility to provide an overarching role representing EHSCP nursing at a range of committees and forums across Lothian and in National Working Groups creating a corporate and cohesive response to actions required on a EHSCP wide basis e.g. HAI, clinical documentation; workforce planning.

This post will play a pivotal role in the governance and assurance of Excellence in Care across EHSCP.

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. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact Amegad Abdelgawad