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NHS Lothian Wants You!
Are you seeking opportunities to develop your career in Perioperative Care Diagnostics, Anaesthetics, Theatres and Critical Care?
NHS Lothian provides care to patients across the South East of Scotland. Lothian, home of Edinburgh, Scotland’s historic capital city has an international airport offering easy access to the rest of the UK, Europe and beyond.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Adult Theatre and Recovery Team within one of the hospital sites in NHS Lothian. We have multiple Band 5 positions available for Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners. Applicants with a dynamic and enthusiastic approach, with a passion for learning are highly desired to fill a range of Theatre Practitioner posts.
The range of surgical specialties provides a unique opportunity to enhance professional knowledge and learn highly desirable skills in Anaesthetics, Scrub and Recovery disciplines through the surgical specialties’ rotation programme, staff simulation training and a range of perioperative development courses provided by our dedicated education coordinators across the sites. Our friendly, caring, and approachable multidisciplinary team take pride in providing excellent standards of perioperative care to our patients while nurturing our team members professional development in a supportive learning clinical environment.
St John’s (SJH) theatre department in Livingston provides many specialist surgical services for Southeast Scotland including Maxillofacial, ENT, Burns and Plastics, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Orthopaedics, Urology, General, Hand, Ophthalmic and 24/7 emergency theatres.
The Princess Alexander Eye Pavilion in Edinburgh city centre delivers specialist ophthalmology services.
The specialties on the Royal Infirmary (RIE) site include Obstetrics, Gynaecology, Cardiothoracic, Hepatobiliary, Upper GI, Transplant and Organ Retrieval, Vascular, Trauma, Orthopaedic, Neurology as well as our 24/7 emergency theatre. This is an exciting time to join the team as the site has recently become a Major Trauma Centre and the department are developing Robotic Surgery programme.
Theatres within the Western General (WGH) undertake a wide range of specialties including, colorectal, urology, breast surgery and 24/7 emergency theatre. The team are used to being at the cutting edge of technology as one of the first units in Scotland to establish a Robotic Urological service using the DaVinci Robotic system and thereafter were the first team in Europe to use the innovative Versius robotics.
Theatres can be an intense fast paced environment with a team working ethos being at the heart of the services we provide. If you enjoy a challenge and would like to join one of our busy but friendly units, this might be the post for you, and we would look forward to welcoming you into our team.
For further information, or to arrange an informal visit or discuss flexible working arrangements, please contact:
Suzanne Crawford, Clinical Nurse Manager Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh: Suzanne.crawford@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Celia McKiernan Deputy Associate Nurse Director, Western General Hospital: Celia.mckiernan@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Janine Fletcher Clinical Nurse Manager St John’s Hospital and Princes Alexandra Eye Pavilion: Janine.fletcher@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Sarah Gossner Interim Associate Nurse Director: sarah.gossner@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk