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Band 5 Registered General Nurse & Theatre Practitioners
** Final year nursing students - please do not apply for this post, as your application will not be progressed. There will be an advert for final year nursing students in MARCH 2022 **
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.
Some of the opportunities on offer include, but are not limited to:
- Emergency Department – RIE
The Emergency Department at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and is the busiest emergency department in Scotland, seeing on average 400 patients daily.
- The Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion (PAEP)
PAEP provides specialist Ophthalmic services to Lothian and South East of Scotland, for both specialist in and out-patient services. No specialised qualifications required for a post within PAEP, just a willingness to learn and be part of the amazing team. Newly qualified nurses welcome to apply with the opportunity to develop extended roles very quickly. The recruiting manager is happy to show around the department and answer any questions so please contact the hiring manager if you want to find out more about PAEP.
- Outpatient Department (OPD) - RIE
OPD 6 comprises of Trauma, Elective and Specialist clinics. The department also has nurse practitioner/physiotherapy practitioner/plaster room with 2 orthopaedic practitioner and own radiology service.
OPD 4 comprises of Vascular, Surgical, Gastroenterology, Hepaticobiliary, Nurse specialist, Minor Ops services.
- The Department of Sleep Medicine (DSM) - RIE
The department of sleep medicine at the RIE is the largest tertiary referral centre in Scotland. You will be participated in dedicated nurse led clinics, wiring for diagnostic sleep studies and opportunity to rotate within Respiratory medicine and home ventilation service.
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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