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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!
Spotlight on Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Outpatient Department (OPD) / Monitoring Clinic Exciting opportunities are available to join ENT OPD / Monitoring Clinic within the Lauriston Building in central Edinburgh. 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 teams.
Our department provides several specialist outpatient services which are delivered by medical staff that includes ENT Consultants, Registrars and Physicians Associates, alongside the Nursing team, which includes Clinical Nurse Specialists, Senior Charge Nurse, Depute Charge Nurse, Staff Nurses and Senior Health Care Support Workers. The service is enhanced by additional multidisciplinary team members including Speech and Language Therapists, Consultant Radiologists and Audiology team consisting of specialist Hearing and Balance Therapists. Registered nursing staff support services in ENT and Monitoring Service. There is an opportunity for Band 5 nurses to further develop their skills and knowledge in a diverse specialty, which includes nurse led preoperative assessment clinic / decontamination process / specialist rhinology and otology clinics i.e.: Allergy testing / Gentamycin Ablation / Balance clinics / Voice rehabilitation / Laryngeal Botox Clinic / Urgent Head and Neck - one stop cancer clinic – includes supporting radiologist and assisting in acquiring biopsies. Nurse led Chronic Disease Monitoring service – includes various specialities – Diabetes – foot assessment / Renal / Haematology / Lipid / GI assessments. We provide in principle a service to Lothian yet can have referrals from Southeast Scotland for specialist consultation. For further information regarding the opportunities available in ENT OPD / Monitoring Clinic, please contact Vivienne O'Hara, Senior Charge Nurse at Vivienne.O'Hara@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
Please note that we anticipate that the interviews for this advert will take place on Tuesday 28th November at the Comely Bank Centre in Edinburgh.
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/