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Band 5 Registered Staff Nurse
Posts available within Primary Care, Rehabilitation, HBCCC, Intermediate Care, Continuous Care & Medicine of the Elderly.
Various Community Hospitals and Prison locations across Edinburgh & the Lothians
Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?
NHS Lothian Welcomes applications for Band 5 Registered Community Nurses across Community Hospitals and Prisons within 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 Hospitals and Prison 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:
- Baillie Wing, Tippethill House
Baillie Wing at Tippethill House is one of the West Lothian Hospital site. It is a 30 bed unit and accepts patients who require Hospital Based Complex Care, those who require support at end of life and community admissions via REACT. We have a permanent, part-time post available.
- Ward 3, East Lothian Community Hospital
Ward 3 at East Lothian Community Hospital is a 24 bedded ward which includes Medicine of the Elderly, Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics. You will be required to provide care to patients throughout the 24 hour period. We have full-time and part-time, permanent positions available in this ward.
- Charles Bell Ward 2, Astley Ainsley Hospital
Ward 2 at Charles Bell Pavillion provides inpatient rehabilitation, including neurological, stroke and brain injury. There are 18 female inpatient beds. There are full-time, permanent posts available in this ward.
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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