Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner

At CHAS, we provide unwavering care to babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions, and support their families across Scotland.

We have an established and highly regarded Advanced Nurse Practitioner team who play a vital role in delivering expert palliative care, care around dying, education, leadership and service development. We are now seeking an exceptional Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner to provide professional and clinical leadership for our ANP service and help shape the future of advanced practice across our two Hospices, children’s homes and hospital settings.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced ANP to lead a highly skilled team, contribute to strategic development across CHAS, and work collaboratively with colleagues throughout NHS Boards, Health and Social Care Partnerships and national networks.

The successful candidate will provide visible leadership across the four pillars of advanced practice, ensuring the ANP service continues to deliver high quality, evidence-based care whilst supporting our ambition to reach more children and families across Scotland.

This role will be based in either Robin House or Rachel House* with regular travel expected between both sites. On occasions the successful candidate will support palliative care and care around dying at home and in Hospitals.

*Rachel House, CHAS’ hospice in Kinross (KY13 8FX) is embarking on an exciting two-year rebuild programme from Summer/Autumn 2026. During this time our hospice services will continue to run from a temporary site in Kinglassie, Fife called Mina House (KY5 0XT). Mina House is a 20 minute drive from Rachel House.

About You

The successful candidate will be:

• A dynamic, registered nurse with a strong desire to develop advanced practice, share expertise and knowledge and work collaboratively within CHAS and with our partner agencies.
• Passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people with life-shortening conditions and their families.

We would like you to have the following qualifications, skills and experience:

• A NMC Registration RN with a PGDip in Advanced Practice including V300 Non-medical prescribing certification, A Master’s Qualification in Advanced Practice (MSc) is desirable.  
• Education and experience to demonstrate advanced clinical competence in paediatric palliative care
• Evidence of training in quality improvement methodology and leadership.
• Experience of developing and delivering education programmes and supporting workforce development.
• A commitment to research, evidence-based practice and continuous improvement.

What You Will Do

As Lead ANP, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for the 7 day ANP service across both hospice sites, and contribute to the wider leadership of clinical services within CHAS.

Your role will encompass the four pillars of advanced practice:

Clinical Practice

• Maintain advanced clinical practice and expert decision-making in children's palliative care.
• Provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management of children and young people with complex needs.
• Support care delivery across hospice, hospital and community settings.
• Lead on clinical governance, quality assurance and professional standards within the ANP service.
• Work collaboratively with consultants, nursing teams and multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure safe, effective and person-centred care.

Leadership

• Provide professional leadership, supervision and support to the ANP team.
• Lead the implementation and ongoing development of the CHAS ANP Strategy.
• Act as a role model and advocate for advanced practice across CHAS and externally.
• Contribute to organisational strategy, service development and clinical leadership forums.
• Foster strong partnerships with NHS Boards, specialist services and national stakeholders.

Facilitating Learning

• Lead the development of education and competency frameworks for advanced practice.
• Support workforce planning and succession development within the ANP team.
• Promote a culture of learning, reflection and professional development.
• Develop and deliver educational programmes internally and externally.
• Act as a mentor and coach for advanced practitioners and the wider CHAS nursing team

Evidence, Research and Development

• Lead quality improvement, service evaluation and innovation projects.
• Promote the use of evidence-based practice across clinical services.
• Support research activity and the translation of evidence into practice.
• Monitor outcomes and demonstrate the impact of advanced practice on children, families and services.
• Contribute to national developments in children's palliative care and advanced practice.

About CHAS

In CHAS we provide unwavering care to children, young people who may die young, and support their families. We are understandably proud of what we do but want to continue to improve.

Last year we had 800 admissions to our 2 Houses with 3204 bed nights.  Our CHAS at Home teams undertook 1950 visits providing 6400 hours of care in the community and in hospital settings. These numbers will continue to grow as we meet our strategic aim of reaching more children, young people and families in every part of Scotland.

Why CHAS?

Working with CHAS provides a unique opportunity to support children and families to make the most of their precious time together; as a team, we make extraordinary things happen every day.

As Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering high-quality paediatric palliative care. Working alongside multidisciplinary colleagues and external partners, you will influence clinical practice, support service development, lead educational initiatives and help drive continuous improvement across CHAS.

What makes this opportunity different?

Advanced and autonomous practice: Use your specialist clinical expertise in a role that combines direct patient care, leadership, education and service development, enabling you to make a meaningful impact for children and families.

Influence and innovation: Contribute to the development of paediatric palliative care practice within CHAS and beyond, helping to shape services, improve outcomes and share expertise across professional networks.

Professional growth: Work within a supportive, highly skilled multidisciplinary team where continuous learning, research, quality improvement and workforce development are actively encouraged.

Time to care: Deliver person-centred care in an environment that enables you to build meaningful relationships with children and families and focus on what matters most to them.

Benefits: including incremental salary progression, generous leave and pension benefits. Continue membership of the NHS Scotland Pension Scheme or join the Local Government Pension Scheme. Annual leave entitlement increases to 40 days with service, and existing NHS enhanced leave entitlement will be honoured up to the CHAS maximum.

Comprehensive wellbeing support: Access to health and wellbeing resources, employee assistance support, Blue Light discounts, Perkbox benefits.

Further Information and How to Apply

If this sounds like you, we would love you to apply!  

You can learn more about the role and working for CHAS in the attached Recruitment Pack.

To apply, you will be asked to answer a couple of questions and upload your CV or complete our full application form.

To arrange an informal chat about the position and request a visit to either site, please contact Claire O’Neill Chief Nurse claireoneill@chas.org.uk

For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact our HR Team on 0131 444 3293 or by emailing careers@chas.org.uk.

This post is subject to a Disclosure Scotland Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check (children and protected adults).

Provisional interview date week commencing 5 October 2026