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.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.The post holder will provide visible professional nursing leadership, care governance and assurance, and nursing workforce planning, for all nursing staff across the full range of Royal Edinburgh Hospital and Associated Services (REAS), ensuring the delivery of high standards of professional and clinical nursing practice.Accountable to the Chief Nurse REAS for maintaining and further developing high standards of nursing care provided to patients, 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 managing a small team of Nurse Consultants, Lead Nurses and Senior nurses including all aspects of staff governance, recruitment and selection, appraisal and personal development planning and individual performance management as appropriate within remit.Present themselves as a visible accessible and authoritative nursing presence in ward and department 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.Actively participate as a key member of the REAS senior management team to support delivery of the strategic, clinical, and operational performance and quality outcomes. This post will have a delegated responsibility to provide an overarching role representing REAS 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 REAS 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 and Safe and Effective Staffing Legislation on behalf of the Chief Nurse and the delivery of the NHS Lothian Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan.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 Craig Stenhouse on 0131 537 6309 or email craig.stenhouse@nhs.scotNHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Recruiting Board.
