# Advanced Nurse/Advanced Paramedic (Rural Support Team)

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** NHS Highland
- **Location:** Skye, Lochalsh & Wester Ross
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Paramedic
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £52,845 - £61,466
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11T13:14:42.478Z
- **Source information URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=266842
- **Application URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/DecideInternalExternal/DecideInternalExternal?JobId=266842
- **Employer website:** https://www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job details

- Job reference: 256432
- Salary: Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466)
- Job closing date: 26/08/2026
- Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
- Location: Skye, Lochalsh & Wester Ross
- Employment type: Permanent
- Hours Per Week: 36
- Job posted date: 11/08/2026
- Employer (NHS Board): NHS Highland
- Department: Rural Support Team

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: kate.earnshaw@nhs.scot or tel: 07448 761870 or Rodger Adcock, Clinical Lead RST, email: rodger.adcock@nhs.scot or tel: 07971 408997

## Documents

- [Job Description (PDF, KB)](https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1183777&JobId=266842)
- [Highland Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions of Employment (DOCX, KB)](https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1183778&JobId=266842)

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