NHS Scotland
Associate Director of Nursing - Interface Services
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Associate Director of Nursing - Interface Services
Associate Director of Nursing Interface Services
Shape the Future of Unscheduled Care in Fife
NHS Fife is seeking an exceptional senior nursing leader to take on the newly created role of Associate Director of Nursing Interface Services. As part of a triumvirate leadership model, this pivotal position will work alongside the Associate Medical Director and Service Manager to drive transformational change and deliver integrated interface services across Fife.
Key to NHS Fife’s NMAHP Strategy Caring for Fife Together 2026–2030*, this role will focus on enhancing service design to ensure excellence, workforce development, and prevention of illness and harm. You will also play a central role in national and local unscheduled care improvement, ensuring responsive, safe, and person-centred services—reducing delays and improving experiences for both patients and staff.
About the Role
As the Associate Director of Nursing Interface Services, you will provide strategic nursing leadership across a complex portfolio, influencing transformational change and improving patient flow. Primary responsibilities include:
- Leading urgent and unscheduled care pathways, including:
- Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC)
- Hospital at Home
- Virtual wards and remote monitoring
- Flow navigation and discharge optimisation
- Frailty pathways and admission avoidance
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Collaborating across organisational boundaries to unite Acute Services, Health & Social Care Partnerships, Primary Care, and wider system partners—strengthening whole-system working and integrated care pathways.
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Driving workforce redesign, advancing practice, and ensuring clinical governance, professional assurance, and high-quality care are upheld.
About You: Key Attributes & Experience
We are seeking a highly credible, compassionate leader with experience in:
- Senior nursing leadership within NHS Scotland, with a strong nose for system-wide improvement.
- Extensive and proven experience in urgent and unscheduled care.
- Familiarity with interface services, flow optimisation, and service redesign.
- In-depth knowledge of professional assurance, governance, quality improvement, and standards.
- Experience successfully leading transformational change across multi-agency boundaries and at scale.
- Strong influencing, communication, and partnership-building skills.
- A visible, values-driven, patient-centred leadership style.
- Highly advantageous experience includes:
- Patient-facing models such as Hospital at Home and virtual partnerships.
- Advanced practice development or digitally enabled care models.
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Why Join NHS Fife?
This is a rare opportunity to drive nursing excellence, shaping unscheduled care and future-proofing NHF’s services.
NHS Fife is:
- Focused on innovation, sustainability, and care quality.
- Committed to person-centred relationships at every level.
- Known for a supportive senior leadership team emphasising collaboration and continuous improvement.
We are equality champions and actively commit to supporting:
- Flexible and family-friendly working.
- Disabled candidates, neurodivergent colleagues, and those with long-term conditions through reasonable adjustments in recruitment.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds, ensuring NHS Scotland’s workforce reflects the diverse communities it serves.
Next Steps
For enquiries, contact:
- Norma Beveridge, Director of Nursing (Acute): norma.beveridge@nhs.scot
- Gillian McAuley, Executive Nurse Director: gillian.mcauley3@nhs.scot
Pre-Employment Requirements:
✔ UK Right to Work – Must be evidenced (e.g. visa, settled status, or sponsorship eligibility). ✔ Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme – Membership required before appointment.
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