Staff Nurse, Band 5, St. Margaret's Community Hospital

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a band 5 nurse to join our team in St Margarets community hospital in Auchterarder.

St Margarets GP unit is an inpatient ward delivering care within South Perthshire and Kinross locality. St Margarets is a 12 bedded unit providing rehabilitation, step down and palliative care for the communities of Auchterarder and the surrounding areas.

We work closely with Crieff community hospital who provide similar care in an 18 bedded unit to Crieff and the surrounding area

There will be opportunities to work across both St Margarets and Crieff community hospital inpatient units as service need requires.

We are looking for Registered Nurses who are enthusiastic and motivated, with excellent communication skills, to join the multidisciplinary team within our 12-bedded ward.

The role of the registered nurse in a community hospital is diverse and allows nurses to develop experience in many aspects of patient care and multidisciplinary team working.

Within the Community Hospital setting there is sufficient dedicated resource to ensure we can plan and deliver high quality person centred care alongside a highly experienced, dynamic and committed team that takes pride in the quality of the care we provide to maintain or improve lives.

As an integral part of the team this post allows the registrant to work alongside and gain knowledge in social care provision, working in partnership with the integrated health and social care team, families and carers which promotes a holistic approach that provides inclusive care for patients in a sub acute setting.

You must be registered on Sub-part 1: RN1 or RNA or Sub-part 2: RN2 of the NMC Register.

Informal enquiries to: Lois Scobie ext 55402

Hours of work are: 20