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NHS LOTHIAN Registered Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Nurses for all Specialties |
NHS Lothian are recruiting Registered Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Nurses. We have an extensive range of specialties, covering a large geographical area.
Do you want to kick-start or consolidate your nursing career?
Working in NHS Lothian will provide you with the opportunity to gain a wide range of transferrable skills and experience. By joining our friendly and supportive teams, you will have the opportunity for ongoing training, career development and progression opportunities.
Offering full and part time hours and flexible shift patterns - NHS Lothian is a fantastic organisation and a great place to work!
Spotlight on the Older Peoples Mental Health Service in NHS Lothian The Older Peoples Mental Health Service in Lothian has areas across Edinburgh, East, Mid and West Lothian. Opportunities for registered nurses are available across the full patient pathway. E.G. Community Nursing, Assessment Wards and Hospital Based Complex Clinical Care. Older Peoples Mental Health is a rewarding career choice where you can utilise all of your nursing skills and develop many more. There is a motivated and dedicated multi-disciplinary team who provide person centred, compassionate care working closely with carers and other agencies. In REAS, we have 4 busy acute assessment wards; 2 for people living with dementia and 2 for older adults with functional mental illness. Our dementia assessment wards work closely with our psychology colleagues to implement the Newcastle model in order to understand distress and to formulate a person-centred care plan to address any unmet needs. In our functional assessment wards we focus on building resilience for our patients with current QI projects around safety and discharge planning. For further information regarding the opportunities available, please contact Karen Ritchie, Clinical Nurse Manager at Karen.Ritchie@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
In addition, we have a wide variety of exciting opportunities within the Community, Community hospitals, Acute hospitals, Outpatients and Prisons. We offer a variety of different shift patterns, excellent opportunities for career development and you will have the chance to be part of one of our many fantastic teams.
For more information on the vacancies available, please see the attached flyers below.
If you would like to have an informal, visit or have a tour of any of our areas, please email the Generic Recruitment Team, who will be able to help arrange this for you: genericrecruitment@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
A link to the NHS Lothian Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan can be found via the link below:
Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan 2023-2024 (scot.nhs.uk)
Find out what our staff say about working in NHS Lothian at:
https://careers.nhslothian.scot/acute-specialist-nurses/who-we-are/