Assistant Practitioner

OUR VALUES IN ACTION

• Care and Compassion • Quality and Teamwork • Dignity and Respect • Openness, Honesty and Responsibility

Fixed Term until completion of training and qualification as a registered nurse, until completion which would be anticipated July – September 2025.

Are you a final year Nursing student interested in part time work?

NHS borders have an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic, experienced, and highly motivated final year students to join our friendly teams.

• Band 4: Acute care areas
• Base: Borders General Hospital
• Permanent Posts: guaranteed minimum of 11.5 hrs a week negotiable over 4 week period to accommodate prioritisation of study and clinical practice placement

Vacancies are available across NHS Borders’s acute areas

The successful applicants will have excellent communication and time management skills with previous experience in clinical skills delivery and have knowledge and understanding treating the deteriorating patient with knowledge of an A-E assessment and SBAR.  Informal enquiries to:

Gayle Burton, HCSW Development Lead

Email: Gayle.Burton@borders.scot.nhs.uk

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.

Please note: the salary quoted is for full-time hours (37 hrs per week). For appointments to part-time hours, the salary will be pro-rata.

***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***

NHS 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 Hiring Manager.

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.