# Community Staff Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS Fife. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-staff-nurse/8ad6e3d0-7c9b-4116-9f43-0120fbe7528e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-staff-nurse/8ad6e3d0-7c9b-4116-9f43-0120fbe7528e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS Fife - **Town:** Kirkcaldy - **Region:** East of Scotland - **Country:** Scotland - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £34,544 - £43,039 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - **Closing date:** 2026-06-23T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-10T09:32:54.964Z - **Source information URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=261400 - **Application URL:** https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/DecideInternalExternal/DecideInternalExternal?JobId=261400 - **Employer website:** https://www.nhsfife.org ## Job Content ### Job details - Job reference: 250994 - Salary: Band 5 (£34,544 - £43,039) - Job closing date: 23/06/2026 - Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery - Location: Kirkcaldy Health Centre - Employment type: Permanent - Hours Per Week: 21.7 - Job posted date: 10/06/2026 - Employer (NHS Board): NHS Fife - Department: District Nursing Kirkcaldy You are required to be a registered Nurse, with Community Nursing experience. You should be enthusiastic and have excellent communication skills and extensive clinical expertise and knowledge are essential, as well as a desire to assist the Community Nursing Team to deliver a high quality service. The post will include working weekends and public holidays and you must have an ability to provide evening cover as required in addition to being able to work in other areas across the Fife-Wide division if the service warrants it. This post holder will be required to work within a 24 hour, 7 day Community Nursing Service. An ability to travel across the locality is essential. Informal enquiries can be made to District Nurse Jamey McConnell via e-mail at jamey.mcconnell@nhs.scot A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment. To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here. It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form. 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. AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your application—but your answers must be your own. - Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically. - Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers. - Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements. Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand you—not an AI tool. 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. You are required to be a registered Nurse, with Community Nursing experience. You should be enthusiastic and have excellent communication skills and extensive clinical expertise and knowledge are essential, as well as a desire to assist the Community Nursing Team to deliver a high quality service. The post will include working weekends and public holidays and you must have an ability to provide evening cover as required in addition to being able to work in other areas across the Fife-Wide division if the service warrants it. This post holder will be required to work within a 24 hour, 7 day Community Nursing Service. An ability to travel across the locality is essential. Informal enquiries can be made to District Nurse Jamey McConnell via e-mail at jamey.mcconnell@nhs.scot A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment. To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here. It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form. 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. AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your application—but your answers must be your own. - Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically. - Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers. - Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements. Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand you—not an AI tool. 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. ## Job Details You are required to be a registered Nurse, with Community Nursing experience. You should be enthusiastic and have excellent communication skills and extensive clinical expertise and knowledge are essential, as well as a desire to assist the Community Nursing Team to deliver a high quality service. The post will include working weekends and public holidays and you must have an ability to provide evening cover as required in addition to being able to work in other areas across the Fife-Wide division if the service warrants it. This post holder will be required to work within a 24 hour, 7 day Community Nursing Service. An ability to travel across the locality is essential. Informal enquiries can be made to District Nurse Jamey McConnell via e-mail at jamey.mcconnell@nhs.scot A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment. To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here. It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form. 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. AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your application—but your answers must be your own. Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand you—not an AI tool. 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. ## Documents - [244135 - Job Pack - Community Staff Nurse (DOC, KB)](https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1160680&JobId=261400) - [NHS Fife - Terms & Conditions January 2024 (PDF, KB)](https://apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1160679&JobId=261400) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.