Join Our Hospital at Home Team and Transform Care Across Fife

Are you an experienced Nurse Practitioner looking for an opportunity to make a real difference in patients' lives while working at the forefront of innovative community healthcare?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Hospital at Home West Team, based at Whytemans Brae, Kirkcaldy. This is a rewarding and dynamic role for a highly skilled practitioner who is passionate about delivering outstanding care closer to home and supporting some of our most vulnerable patients.

As part of our dedicated Hospital at Home service, you will play a pivotal role in providing safe, effective and person-centred care within the community. Working across a range of settings, you will assess, diagnose and manage patients with urgent and unscheduled care needs, particularly older adults living with frailty, complex health conditions, acute illness and palliative care needs, including residents of nursing and care homes.

This is more than a clinical role. It is an opportunity to be part of the transformation of healthcare delivery across Fife. As people live longer and healthcare needs become increasingly complex, Hospital at Home services are at the heart of delivering high-quality care where it matters most: in people's homes and communities.

You will work alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, including the Frailty Team, Medicine of the Elderly Consultants, GPs, Allied Health Professionals and social care colleagues, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions while improving patient outcomes and experiences.

As part of the core Hospital at Home service, you will:

• Deliver advanced clinical assessment and decision-making within community settings.
• Provide urgent assessment and management of acutely unwell patients.
• Support patients with frailty, multiple long-term conditions and palliative care needs.
• Work autonomously while benefiting from strong multidisciplinary support.
• Rotate into our in-reach service within Victoria Hospital, strengthening links between acute and community care.
• Help shape the future of integrated health and social care services across Fife.

Applicants must hold the Clinical Assessment and Decision-Making Module and ideally have completed Level 11 Non-Medical Prescribing.

Trainee Nurse Practitioner applications are welcomed and will be considered under Annex 21 arrangements until completion of the Clinical Decision-Making qualification and competency framework.

*Annex 21 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).

This role supports a 7-day service operating between 08:00 and 22:00 and involves travel throughout Fife to provide timely care to patients in the community.

If you are passionate about delivering exceptional care, empowering patients to remain at home whenever possible, and helping shape the future of community-based healthcare, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact: Aimee Selalmas Interim Team Leader, Hospital at Home West on 01592 729493 or Connie Henderson on 07811487647

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.

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