SP245500 - Nurse Manager

Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership

Nurse Manager, Citywide Community and Specialist Nursing Teams – Band 8A

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and visible nursing leader to join Aberdeen City Health & Social Care Partnership as a Nurse Manager within our Community Nursing Service. This senior role provides clinical, professional and operational leadership to Community and Specialist Nursing Teams, ensuring patients receive excellent quality nursing care across a range of community settings.

As Nurse Manager, you will be responsible for leading and supporting nursing teams across the city, providing strong clinical leadership, operational management and professional advice. You will work closely with senior nursing colleagues, Team Leaders, partner organisations and wider health and social care services to support safe, effective and sustainable community nursing provision.

This is a key leadership role within the senior nursing team. You will contribute to workforce planning, recruitment, staff development, clinical governance, quality assurance and service improvement. You will also support the implementation of national and local programmes of work, including staffing level tools, the ACHSCP Workforce Plan, and compliance with the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act.

We are looking for a highly experienced registered nurse who can demonstrate strong leadership, sound professional judgement and the ability to influence, support and engage others. You will have current NMC registration, relevant post-registration qualification to Master’s degree level, line management experience, and knowledge of workforce planning, staffing level tools, Turas, appraisals and service redesign.

The successful candidate will be a confident communicator, able to work across professional and organisational boundaries, manage complex and sensitive situations, and support staff through change. You will be expected to act as a professional role model, provide expert nursing advice, represent community nursing services across the organisation, and deputise for senior nursing colleagues when required.

This role offers the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the development of Community and Specialist Nursing Services across Aberdeen City.

If you are ready to take on a senior leadership role where you can influence nursing practice, support teams through change and contribute to the future development of community nursing services across Aberdeen City, we would welcome your application.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 26 August 2026.

Please direct any informal enquiries to Suzanne Christie, Deputy Chief Nurse, Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership, e-mail: Sign in to view email

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.