Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Band 7 - GH

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Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Band 7 - GH, Edinburgh

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Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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18.04.2025

Expiry Date:

02.06.2025

Job Description:

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.

To undertake the role of an advanced nurse practitioner (ANP), utilising high levels of decision making and clinical judgment. Ensure that patient health needs are met through the provision of the diagnosis and the management of patient conditions through the assessment, treatment and review planning process in partnership with patients and families.

Provide specialist advice to healthcare professionals, other agencies, carers, clients and relatives. The ANP role encompasses that of expert clinician, educator and auditor.

Lead and develop the service to improve practice and work collaboratively across healthcare boundaries, implementing and evaluating evidence-based standards, guidelines and policies.

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.

We are recruiting to the post of Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Band 7 (x1 Trainee ANP & x1 ANP). NHS Lothian is excited to be recruiting an Advanced Nurse Practitioner at the Western General Hospital.

We are looking for an inspirational leader who is caring, compassionate and motivated to join our strong, empowered and highly skilled nursing family.

Our vision, ambitions and values enable excellent care for our patients and service users. A collaborative, person-focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution.

Recruitment process – We use a values and competency based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. Within NHS Lothian, Nursing and Midwifery interviews are linked to our Nursing & Midwifery Strategic Plan. We aim to offer an equitable experience and are sharing interview questions in advance.

*Please note that x1 of the positions is a Trainee post, therefore Annex 21 applies*

For trainees covered by Annex 21 where the period of training lasts for between one and four years, pay will be as follows:

• up to 12 months prior to completion of training: 75 per cent of the pay band maximum of the fully qualified rate;
• more than one but less than two years prior to completion of training: 70 per cent of the pay band maximum of the qualified rate;
• more than two but less than three years prior to completion of training: 65 per cent of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate;
• more than three years from completion of training: 60 per cent of the pay band maximum of the fully qualified rate.

OSCE will take place on 14 May 2025 & interviews will take place on 20 May 2025.