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Final Year Nursing Students – Adult Nursing
Newly Qualified Adult Nurse Recruitment Programme 2022
Are you looking to apply for your first permanent role as a Registered Adult Nurse?
Our Newly Qualified Adult Nurse Recruitment Campaign is live
NHS Lothian are delighted to accept applications from newly qualified nurses. We are looking for passionate, caring, and motivated people to join our highly skilled nursing teams to work within our many specialities within Acute Care. You can be assured of the friendliest of welcomes from our committed nursing teams dedicated to giving you the best start to your nursing career.
In addition to your clinical skills, we are interested in your passion for working in healthcare and your commitment to delivering excellent patient- centred care, as well as a demonstration of personal values, aligned to those of our organisation.
Our Values are:
Quality
Dignity and Respect
Care and Compassion
Openness, Honesty and Responsibility
Teamwork
Stating your Preference
As part of the application process, we will ask you to list up to 3 preferences by Hospital site and specialities you want to work in. Please note: if you are successfully offered a post, whilst we will endeavour to match you to your preferred choice we cannot always guarantee you will be offered this due to the availability of posts in this round of recruitment.
What Opportunities are Available
We have a variety of exciting opportunities within all areas within NHS Lothian Acute Services. Which includes but are not limited to:
St John’s Hospital (Medical, Surgical, Critical Care & Theatres)
Western General Hospital (Medical, Surgical, Cancer Services, Critical Care & Theatres)
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (Medical, Surgical, Critical Care, Theatres & Neurosciences)
Lauriston Buildings (Dermatology + ENT)
Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion (Ophthalmology)
Health & Social Care Partnerships - Community Hospitals including prisons (Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian)
Health & Social Care Partnerships – Community / District Nursing (Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian)
Matching Process
We aim to align you to a post via a matching process carried out by a team of Clinical Nurse Managers. The decision-making will take into account your learning, skills, experience and the values that you have described within your application.
Please only include areas in which you are willing to accept an offer.
Important Information If there is a high number of interest in a particular area, we may need to go to competitive interview for selected posts. |
For further information on the opportunities available, please contact:
St John's Hospital - Fiona Gaskell (fiona.gaskell@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)
Western General Hospital - Neil Boyle (neil.boyle@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - Jennifer Watters (jennifer.watters@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)
Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership - Billie Flynn (billie.flynn@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)
West Lothian Health & Social Care Partnership - Linda Yule (linda.yule@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)
Midlothian Health & Social Care Partnership - Fiona Stratton (fiona.stratton@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)
East Lothian Health & Social Care Partnership - Lorraine Cowan (lorraine.cowan@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)
Lauriston Building - Carolyn Meldrum (carolyn.meldrum@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)
Theatres & Critical Care - Celia McKiernan (celia.mckiernan@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)