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An opportunity has arisen for a District Nurse to join the Banff & Buchan North Community Nursing Team in the Fraserburgh Locality, based in Fraserburgh Hospital. The successful candidate will become the caseload holder for patients registered with Finlayson and Saltoun surgeries.
This is a challenging role in which the successful candidate will take responsibility for managing a caseload and ensuring the delivery of high-quality nursing care. This is an exciting time to work with Health and Social Care teams to shape the future of our locality, with a willingness to contribute ideas and work in partnership to ensure the best possible delivery model for our community.
Candidates should possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be committed to team working and ongoing professional development. A car driver/owner is essential.
Community experience is essential, and candidates must possess a Specialist Practice District Nursing qualification, with additional qualifications in advanced clinical examination and non-medical prescribing.
Working independently as a lone worker, the successful candidate will have community experience and nursing skills including all forms of catheterisation, palliative care, wound care, venepuncture, and promotion of continence. An interest in preceptorship, mentoring, and teaching junior staff and pre-reg students is essential.
The successful candidate will work across the Fraserburgh area nursing housebound patients within their own homes. Shift pattern 0830-1700.
Interview date for the post is TBC.
For informal enquiries, please contact District Nurse Team Lead: Christine Dewar on 07788302106 or email christine.dewar1@nhs.scot.
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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