Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our established ANP team within FV Prison healthcare and participate in the ongoing development and transformation of nursing practice within the custodial setting. Are you a dynamic individual who enjoys a challenging but rewarding role in addition to ongoing support with your professional development? If this is you, then apply for the role of Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) and become part of our ANP team.

• Apply high levels of decision making to assess and treat patients within our 3 national prisons.
• Ensure patient health needs are met through autonomous diagnosis and management of patient conditions through assessment, treatment, and review planning, in partnership with patients.
• Provide specialist advice and education to healthcare professionals, SPS partners and patients.
• Collaborate across prison healthcare teams to develop the service, implement and evaluate evidence-based standards, guidelines and policy.
• Support the Healthcare Manager in developing the service to assure safe, patient-centred and effective care delivery using the four pillars of advanced practice.

As a Registered General Nurse with substantial post-registration experience you must have completed and be utilising in practice at least one Masters level qualification in Advanced Practice and be willing or already undertaking a second which enables competence in:

• Advanced Clinical Assessment
• Clinical Decision Making
• Non-medical Prescribing - V300

Excellent professional leadership, teamwork, advanced clinical assessment and decision making skills are essential. Flexibility to the needs of the role and service is required, with the ability to support the Healthcare Manager in developing the service to ensure safe, patient-centred and effective care delivery.

Hours are Monday to Friday hrs with occasional Saturday morning clinics (approximately 1 in
7) to facilitate admission clinic at HMP Stirling. Ability to travel across all 3 prison sites is required; this may involve travel between sites in one day.

The duties require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information is available at  A current UK NMC pin is also required for this post. Annex 21 Pay arrangements apply;
Trainee ANP candidates will be placed on Band 7 Annex 21 and will undergo a defined competency framework with training completed over a maximum of 21 months from appointment.

This post may be considered as in-training under Annex 21 of the Agenda for Change terms & conditions. For more information, see the linked documents:  (nhsemployers.org). Section 2(iii) and Section 3 relate to this vacancy.

For informal enquiries, please contact Ailsa Russell, Lead Nurse (aila.russellt), Leona Paget, Service Manager (Leona.pagett) or Fiona Donnelly, Healthcare Manager (Fiona.donellyt).

Applicants who require sponsorship to work in the UK should review the eligibility criteria for the Skilled Worker or Health and Care Worker visa routes. NHS Forth Valley may offer sponsorship for certain roles, subject to meeting the minimum salary threshold and other criteria. Sponsorship is not guaranteed and is assessed on a case-by-case basis. For visa requirements and sponsorship eligibility, refer to UK Government guidance.

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NHS Forth Valley is committed to equality and diversity. We encourage applications from all sections of society and support reasonable adjustments for interview if needed. For accessibility and diversity information, contact the Recruitment Office.