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Final Year Nursing Students – Children's Nursing
Newly Qualified Children's Nurse Recruitment Programme 2022
Are you looking to apply for your first permanent role as a Registered Children's Nurse?
Our Newly Qualified Children's Nurse Recruitment Campaign is live
NHS Lothian are delighted to accept applications from newly qualified nurses. We are looking for passionate, caring, and motivated people to join our highly skilled nursing teams to work within our many specialities within Child Health. You can be assured of the friendliest of welcomes from our committed nursing teams dedicated to giving you the best start to your nursing career.
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
Stating your Preference
As part of the application process, we will ask you to list up to 3 preferences by Hospital site and specialities you want to work in. Please note: if you are successfully offered a post, whilst we will endeavour to match you to your preferred choice we cannot always guarantee you will be offered this due to the availability of posts in this round of recruitment.
What Opportunities are Available
We have a variety of exciting opportunities within all areas within NHS Lothian Children's Services. Which includes:
Neurosciences, Royal Hospital for Children & Young People
Respiratory Medicine, Royal Hospital for Children & Young People
Acute Medicine, Royal Hospital for Children & Young People
Surgical, Royal Hospital for Children & Young People
Haematology/Oncology, Royal Hospital for Children & Young People
Critical Care, Royal Hospital for Children & Young People
Neonatal Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Matching Process
Successful candidates will be invited to interview based on the preferences listed in their application.
Interviews are Values based with additional competency questions. It is expected that these interviews will take place on Microsoft Teams. Candidates will then be matched to vacancies based on their interview score.
Please only include areas in which you are willing to accept an offer.
For further information on the opportunities available, please contact:
Royal Hospital for Children & Young People, All services - Linda Conway (linda.conway@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Neonatal unit - Suzy Campbell (suzy.campbell@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk)