Senior Charge Nurse

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Charge Nurse within our Intensive Care Unit at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy. The position will allow the successful candidate to join our existing established and highly motivated team of experienced Critical Care nurses to lead our service.

We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic about implementing change and can motivate and generate ideas. Extensive clinical and leadership experience within Critical Care is vital for this role. As a Senior Charge Nurse, you will be instrumental in the day-to-day running of the unit and the service. You will also lead a team to manage service improvement projects to raise quality and safety standards of patient care. You will also work closely with our existing team of committed and motivated Critical Care Senior Charge Nurses, Clinical Nurse Educator and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.

Critical Care at Victoria Hospital is provided across three units, the Intensive Care Unit, Surgical High Dependency Unit and Medical High Dependency Unit. The overall bed capacity across all units is 28 beds. Each unit has their own designated Senior Charge Nurse and nursing team. Our Senior Charge Nurses provide clinical leadership, management and expert advice to all nursing staff in the delivery of care within their area of responsibility including recruitment, supervision, development and deployment of unit staff as required to support safe nurse staffing.

The post holder will undertake regular rotational cover of the Directorate out-of-hours to provide leadership, deal with clinical issues, immediate management issues and deploy staff as appropriate and be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development of programmes of care, and/or the implementation and evaluation of these programmes ensuring the delivery of high-quality care to patients across the hospital.

This post is 34.5 hours per week, predominately worked over five days, Monday to Friday with occasional weekend working as part of the Directorate cover as previously noted.

For informal enquiries contact Lisa Wood, Clinical Nurse Manager on 01592 643355 ext 20083, email lisa.wood3@nhs.scot, or Angie Shepherd, Service Manager ext 28034, email angie.shepherd1@nhs.scot

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.

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.

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 currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Charge Nurse within our Intensive Care Unit at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy. The position will allow the successful candidate to join our existing established and highly motivated team of experienced Critical Care nurses to lead our service.

We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic about implementing change and can motivate and generate ideas. Extensive clinical and leadership experience within Critical Care is vital for this role. As a Senior Charge Nurse, you will be instrumental in the day-to-day running of the unit and the service. You will also lead a team to manage service improvement projects to raise quality and safety standards of patient care. You will also work closely with our existing team of committed and motivated Critical Care Senior Charge Nurses, Clinical Nurse Educator and Advanced Nurse Practitioners.

Critical Care at Victoria Hospital is provided across three units, the Intensive Care Unit, Surgical High Dependency Unit and Medical High Dependency Unit. The overall bed capacity across all units is 28 beds. Each unit has their own designated Senior Charge Nurse and nursing team. Our Senior Charge Nurses provide clinical leadership, management and expert advice to all nursing staff in the delivery of care within their area of responsibility including recruitment, supervision, development and deployment of unit staff as required to support safe nurse staffing.

The post holder will undertake regular rotational cover of the Directorate out-of-hours to provide leadership, deal with clinical issues, immediate management issues and deploy staff as appropriate and be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development of programmes of care, and/or the implementation and evaluation of these programmes ensuring the delivery of high-quality care to patients across the hospital.

This post is 34.5 hours per week, predominately worked over five days, Monday to Friday with occasional weekend working as part of the Directorate cover as previously noted.

For informal enquiries contact Lisa Wood, Clinical Nurse Manager on 01592 643355 ext 20083, email lisa.wood3@nhs.scot, or Angie Shepherd, Service Manager ext 28034, email angie.shepherd1@nhs.scot

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.

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.

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.