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Band 5 Registered General Nurse & Theatre Practitioners
Various locations across Edinburgh & the Lothians
Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?
NHS Lothian Welcomes applications for Band 5 Registered General Nurse & Theatre Practitioners in Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE), Western General Hospital (WGH), St John’s Hospital (SJH), Lauriston Building and Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion.
We are looking for passionate, caring, motivated people to join our highly skilled nursing teams to work within a number of different acute medicines and specialities.
We offer the opportunity to work with innovative and talented teams within multidisciplinary environments and impact positively on the lives of thousands of patients and their families.
What we are looking for
- Are you a team player?
- Do you have excellent communication skills?
- Are you Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary environment?
- Do you have thorough and up-to-date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice?
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
More information on Our Values can be found by clicking on the link at the bottom of our Careers website front page: www.careers.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
NHS Lothian provides a comprehensive range of primary, community-based and acute hospital services, employing over 24,000 staff providing healthcare services to 800,000 people in Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian. We offer Generous holidays, excellent pension scheme and investment in your development. NHS Lothian is committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to deliver their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) | |
Area | Informal Contact |
Emergency & Minor Injuries | caitlin.bell4@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Acute & General Medicine | heidi.byrne@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Medicine of the Elderly & Stroke | jim.stevenson@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Orthopaedic | claire.mcnee@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Vascular & General Surgery | anne.scott@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
GI/Liver, Renal & Transplant | lynne.beveridge@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Community Dialysis - Anaemia | margaret.campbell@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Cardiology/CTR/Respiratory | julie.mclaughlin@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Sleep medicine | daisy.ezakadan@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Gynaecology | gillian.mcintyre@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Gynaecology OPD | dawn.mackintosh@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Department of Clinical Neurosciences | hester.niven@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
OPD | andrea.mclean@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Western General Hospital (WGH) | |
Area | Informal Contact |
Medical Assessment | louise.x.blyth@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Medicine of the Elderly & Stroke | antony.bishop@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Infectious disease | michelle.wiseman@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Cancer Service | steve.elliott@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Surgical | antony.bishop@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
OPD | suzanne.dillon@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
St. John’s Hospital (SJH) | |
Area | Informal Contact |
Emergency & Medical Admissions Unit | fiona.gaskell@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Acute Medicine | |
Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Rehab | |
Stroke | |
Plastic Surgery | |
Gynaecology | gillian.treadwell@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Endoscopy (all Acute sites) | neil.boyle@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
OPD | claire.stirling@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
DATCC | |
Area | Informal Contact |
RIE Theatres | suzanne.crawford@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
RIE Pre-op Assessment | caron.mcquade@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
RIE Critical Care | lesley.triseliotis@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
RIE Cardiothoracic ICU | julie.mclaughlin@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
WGH Theatres & Critical Care | celia.mckiernan@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
SJH Theatres & Critical Care | janine.fletcher@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Lauriston Building - Dermatology | joan.wilson@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion - Ophthalmology | fiona.hunter@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion - ENT | vivienne.o'hara@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
Please indicate your areas of interest within 'Assessment B' of your application form. Only one application is required to be considered for all posts included within this advert.
Candidates who are successful at interview will then be matched against the vacancies; taking into account service need, individual preference, skills and development needs. Please note that all vacancies are subject to change.
For further information about the available posts, please see the informal contact list attached.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
https://careers.nhslothian.scot/over-100-careers-just-one-employer/
Further information can be requested by emailing: genericrecruitment@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
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