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NHS LOTHIAN Registered General Nurses for all Specialties & Operating Department Practitioners |
NHS Lothian are recruiting Registered Adult Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners. 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!
Tippethill Hospital - Baillie Ward Exciting opportunities are available to join Baillie Ward within Tippethill Community Hospital, West Lothian. Baillie Ward is a mixed-gender ward that provides care for older people, specialising in Hospital Based Complex Clinical Care (HBCCC), Intermediate Care / Rehabilitation, and End of Life Care. We have multiple Band 5 positions available for Registered Nurses and we are looking for passionate, caring, motivated people to join our highly skilled nursing team. If you are passionate about high quality person-centred nursing for older people then we would love to hear from you. We offer the opportunity to work with talented teams within multidisciplinary environments and impact positively on the lives of thousands of patients and their families.
Baillie Ward is passionate about staff development and career progression, and we support education and training for all staff, for example – skills boost program, modern apprenticeship, SVQ/NPA, HNC, and Open University Nursing. We have link workers to support excellence and quality improvement, and you will be supported to develop your skills in your area of interest. We support post-registration learning, for example, extended role clinical skills and modules such as clinical assessment and decision-making, and palliative care. What We Can Offer You We have a range of vacancies for experienced and newly qualified nurses to join our innovative and dynamic team – providing you with the opportunity to gain a breadth of knowledge and experience working in a community setting. Should you wish to discuss opportunities within our department or arrange an informal visit, please contact Leanne Grant, Clinical Nurse Manager at leanne.grant@nhs.scot |
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: loth.genericrecruitment@nhs.scot
If you are a nursing student due to graduate this year, please note that a specific 'Newly Qualifying Registered Nurse' advert will be launched on the 11th of March, and we would be delighted if you could apply to the advert at that point. Please email genericrecruitment@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk and the team will provide you with more information regarding the process that will be followed.
If you are currently working within NHS Lothian in a substantive band 5 Staff Nurse post, and wish to transfer to another area at the same grade, an option that is available to you is the internal transfer process. Please speak to your Charge Nurse for more information: Internal recruitment application process for nursing vacancies (scot.nhs.uk)
When completing the online application form please note if you have an area of preference. We will endeavor to place successful candidates in their area of preference if possible.
Please note that we anticipate that the interviews for this advert will take place on Thursday 21st March 2024 at Comely Bank Centre in Edinburgh.
Please note: At the time of the interview there may not be a current job vacancy. Successful candidates can have details held for up to six months until a vacant post becomes available.
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/