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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!
Edinburgh District Nursing What you can offer us The Edinburgh District Nursing Service is part of the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership. The service plays a vital role in preventing hospital admissions and ensuring patients return to their homes as soon as possible. As a key part of this aim, Community Staff Nurses deliver high quality nursing care within patients’ own homes. This includes the holistic assessment, planning, implementation and monitoring of patient care. Examples of nursing care provided include wound management, medication administration, supporting patients with long term conditions, providing health promotion advice and the delivery of end of life/palliative care. What We Can Offer You As a service we are committed to the professional development of our staff and ensure staff are fully supported within their roles. We offer great career progression opportunities with options to progress to Community Nurse Practitioner or gain the qualification of Specialist Practitioner District Nurse by undertaking the District Nursing course through Queen Margaret University. The District Nursing Service positively impacts the lives of thousands of patients and their families. Find out what staff say about working within the District Nursing service at District Nursing – NHS Lothian Careers To find out more about the role Please call Anna Hay anna.hay@nhs.scot or Lori Hall lori.hall@nhs.scot for more information. |
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 Tuesday 26th 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/