Advanced Nurse/Advanced Paramedic (Rural Support Team)

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.

Are you looking for a challenge? An opportunity to develop your remote and rural clinical skills? An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Remote & Rural Support Team for an Advanced Practitioner.

As an Advanced Nurse/Advanced Paramedic (Rural Support Team), you will be expected to provide expert clinical case management to children and young people, adults, carers, families and communities within a defined population in the most appropriate environment, whether in the community, on the telephone or in hospital/primary care setting.

This post is integral to ensuring safe, effective, high quality care is delivered as close to home as possible. Unscheduled care services may be the first point of contact for patients with minor or major injuries and deals with a range of problems from a painful finger to major motor vehicle crashes and patients with multiple traumas. Also cared for are medical patients with conditions varying from a rash to a heart attack.

You will require a high degree of flexibility and an ability to communicate effectively to patients, the wider MDT and stakeholders.

Informal enquiries to: Kate Earnshaw, District Manager, OOH West, email:

NHS Highland is geographically the largest of the 14 regional boards of NHS Scotland, covering an area of 12,500 square miles, across Highland and Argyll & Bute.

We employ over 10,700 people, making us one of the biggest employers in the area. As an organisation, we make a very significant contribution to the local economy.

Our staff are also important members of our communities. Our greatest asset is our workforce, and the way we go about our work comes from the values and behaviours we demonstrate on a daily basis. As a board we strive to ensure the environment is conducive to nurturing a positive culture, supported and delivered through .