CK251746 - Nurse Practitioner, Hospital at Night

Nurse Practitioner Band 6 - 33.75 Hours per week - Permanent Hospital at Night, ARI An opportunity for a Nurse Practitioner has arisen within Hospital at Night Team within the Division of Medicine and Unscheduled Care in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. We are seek a suitably motivated colleague to join our well-established team on a permanent basis. Training will be provided to achieve Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice.

The successful applicant will be expected to work predominantly nights, with some expectation to work days when needed to represent the team’s attendance at daytime meetings or events such as supporting our medical colleagues’ induction.

You will be a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and hold relevant acute post registration experience.

Within this role the successful applicant would work at maintaining and developing advanced practice skills, progress knowledge and competence as well as supporting others within the multidisciplinary team. We endeavour to provide ‘clinical supervision’ time to support your development.

The hospital at night team work collectively to provide safe, patient centred care overnight. We value collaboration and work together as an advanced, welcoming and supportive team, working as ‘one group’ alongside all staff disciplines to support patients overnight. This role is unique allowing variation of managing the deteriorating patient, clinical emergency response as well as clerking the unscheduled patient. Managerial responsibilities for Senior Healthcare Support Worker team is another area of opportunity for experience.

Despite working 3 nights a week, the self-rostering system can promote a healthy work/life balance. To ensure fairness within the team colleagues are required to be in the position to commit to working flexibly across the 7 nights of the rota.

If this is a post you are interested in and would like an informal chat or visit, please contact ANP Rachel Winstanley (rachel.winstanley@nhs.scot) Shadow shifts for NHSG employees are encouraged.

Post may close earlier if a large volume of applications are received. An attractive relocation allowance of up to £8,000 may be available to successful candidates. 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. Additional Information For Candidates As from 01/04/2026, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.

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