Base: Stratheden Hospital
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an innovative nurse to join NHS Fife’s Community Cardiac Specialist Nurse Team as a Heart Failure (HF) Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist (ACNS).
The HF CNS Service operates Monday to Friday during business hours. We provide holistic and evidenced based specialist care to people diagnosed with HF across Fife. We have 2 bases Stratheden hospital and Lynebank hospital. You will participate in the ongoing development, implementation and evaluation of the HF clinical service thereby improving the management, treatment and support of patients with HF, and their carers / families. The service aims to support self management, improve quality of life and reduce unnecessary hospital admission / re-admission. The service provides seamless care between the primary care and acute care settings.
You will be offered a band 7 if :
You are experienced HF nurse specialist with a non-medical prescribing qualification and have undertaken Level 11 post graduate qualifications in clinical assessment & decision making and chronic heart failure. As a band 7 and senior member of the team, part of your role will involve supporting the Team Leader under the leadership pillar, in developing the service and deputising as required for the team leader in their absence. Previous leadership experience is desirable but not essential, as training will be given.
You will be offered the trainee post under annex 21 if:
You are an experienced nurse with significant cardiology experience, educated to degree level with evidence of recent CPD and willing to undertake the qualifications listed above. This will be done under Annex 21 (see attached for more info). 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).
Please indicate on the application form which post you are applying for.
You will require excellent communication skills and be able to work as a member of the wider Health and Social Care Team with the ability to work autonomously utilising your own initiative, clinical judgement and decision making.
As this is Fife wide community post you will be required to reliably and efficiently travel whenever required across various sites/ bases/ and patient’s homes across Fife.
Please note the salary for this post is pro rata to part time hours.
For informal enquiries please contact Anne McEwan, Team Leader on 01383 565166 or Amanda McLelland, Team Leader on 01592 729455.
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For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.
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Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a “regulated role”, your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.
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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