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Band 5 Registered Community Nurse
Treatment Room, Community Vaccination, Care Home Support and Community Staff Nurse posts available
Various locations across Edinburgh & the Lothians
Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?
NHS Lothian Welcomes applications for Band 5 Registered Community Nurses across NHS Lothian. We are looking for passionate, caring, motivated people to join our highly skilled nursing teams to work within a number of different Community Nursing 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.
Some of the opportunities on offer include, but are not limited to:
- Midlothian Care Home Support Team
As part of the Care Home Support Team, you will cover 10 Older-People Care Homes throughout Midlothian. You will work in conjunction with the Care Home Team Manager / Nurse Advisor to provide support to these Care Homes. There are full time, permanent positions available.
- Edinburgh Community Treatment and Care
As a Treatment Room nurse within Edinburgh CTAC, you will be working within a general practice setting, providing nursing care for all patients over 16 who attend the practice. You will be primarily in the treatment room setting, to a practice population. We have full time, permanent posts available.
- West Lothian District Nursing
As part of the West Lothian community nursing team, you will be providing nursing care to patients in their own homes. West Lothian CHCP has responsibility for 24 practices in total, with each area having 3-4 practices in their remit. We have permanent, part time posts available throughout West Lothian.
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 posts listed 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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