AddressNewly Qualified Registered Adult Nurse Recruitment 2024
Are you looking to apply for your first permanent role as a Registered Adult Nurse?
NHS Lothian are delighted to accept applications from newly qualifying Nurses 2024. We are looking for passionate, caring, and motivated people to join our highly skilled nursing teams to work within our many specialities. We have a wide variety of exciting opportunities across the Community, Community Hospitals, Acute Hospitals, Outpatients and Prisons. 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.
What Opportunities are Available
We have a variety of exciting opportunities across NHS Lothian. Please see attached documents detailing our locations and specialties across Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Stating your Preference
As part of the application process, you will have the opportunity to indicate your preferred site and speciality, with up to 3 preference choices. When selecting your preferences, please ensure that you consider your ability to travel and how it may impact your work-life balance. Every effort is made to accommodate 1st choice although this is not guaranteed due to availability of posts.
If you have any queries regarding how to complete the preference selections, please don't hesitate to contact the Generic Recruitment team at loth.genericrecruitment@nhs.scot
Matching Process
We aim to align you to a post via a matching process carried out by a team of Senior Clinical Leaders. The decision-making will consider your learning, skills, experience and the values that you have described within your application. The highest scoring applicants will be more likely to be matched to their first choice preference. If you are currently an Assistant Practitioner within NHS Lothian please include this information in your application.
You will be contacted by telephone on the week commencing the 29th of April by the clinical teams to advise you of which post you have been matched to. Please note that we will be unable to facilitate rematches under this advert once the matching process has concluded.
Please only include areas in which you are willing to accept an offer.
For further information on the opportunities available, please contact:
St John's Hospital – Karen Wilson (karen.wilson6@nhs.scot)
Western General Hospital – Claire Palmer (claire.palmer@nhs.scot)
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - Jennifer Watters (jennifer.watters@nhs.scot)
Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership - Billie Flynn (billie.flynn@nhs.scot)
West Lothian Health & Social Care Partnership - Linda Yule (linda.yule@nhs.scot)
Midlothian Health & Social Care Partnership - Fiona Stratton (fiona.stratton@nhs.scot)
East Lothian Health & Social Care Partnership – Sarah Gossner (sarah.gossner@nhs.scot)
Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion (PAEP) – Jan McClure (jan.mcclure@nhs.scot
Lauriston Building - Carolyn Meldrum (carolyn.meldrum@nhs.scot)
Theatres & Critical Care – Gordon Mills (gordon.mills@nhs.scot)
Prison Healthcare - Caroline Kenny (caroline.kenny@nhs.scot)
Please don't hesitate to contact the Generic Recruitment team at loth.genericrecruitment@nhs.scot should you have any queries.
A link to the NHS Lothian Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan can be found via the link below:
Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan 2023-2024 (scot.nhs.uk)
