We have vacancies for experienced and newly qualified Staff Nurses (Band 5), District Nurses (Band 6) and District Nurse Team Managers (Band 7) to join our innovative and dynamic teams across NHS Lothian.
We would also be interested in hearing from anyone who may be interested in training to become a qualified District Nurse.
For more information or to note your interest please contact Sarah Chalmers, District Nurse Team Manager on 0131 315 2202 or email: sarah.chalmers@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Assistance with Relocating to Edinburgh
Benefits
- A minimum of five weeks annual leave increasing with length of service
- We provide an extensive induction programme and excellent professional training and development opportunities.
- The opportunity to participate in a modular programme that will lead to the chance to complete the district nursing course at Masters Level
- Access to the NHS pension scheme and staff benefits
- Assistance with relocating to Edinburgh
Edinburgh and the Lothian offers all the benefits of a major city region but at a more relaxed pace, which allows for a much better work-life balance.
Our Vision and Values
NHS Scotland’s 2030 vision is about preparing a nursing workforce that will be ready and able to meet people’s needs as we move towards 2030. The vision highlights the need for action across three main areas:
Personalising Care
- Be a personalised, rights-based service embedded within a caring and compassionate professional relationship with individuals and communities.
- Be prepared for increasingly technological environments, with nurses equipped with the technical and communication skills they need to support patients and enable their self-management potential.
Preparing Nurses for Future Needs and Roles
- Provide the flexible and effective responses the population needs now and in the future through transformation of roles.
- Retain a focus on supporting people through periods of acute ill health in hospital and in the community but increasingly will also be about prevention, addressing wider issues around promoting health and wellbeing, tackling inequalities and supporting parity of esteem between physical and mental health care.
Supporting Nurses
- Provide clear and exciting career opportunities, provide partnerships between practitioners and researchers to expand the evidence base for high-quality and effective nursing practice, put in place measures to protect and promote nurses’ physical and mental health and wellbeing, finding ways to help nurses stay healthier and fitter for longer. Ensure practitioners are supported, enabled, empowered and listened to, and that they have access to ongoing supervision appropriate to their roles.
Our Values and Ways of Working
As part of ongoing efforts to improve the way we work, more than 3,000 colleagues across the organisation helped develop a set of common values and ways of working. Turning these values and ways of working into everyday reality benefits everyone who works for NHS Lothian and all our patients.
Lothian NHS Board and NHS Scotland have endorsed the following five values:
- Quality
- Dignity and Respect
- Care and Compassion
- Openness, Honesty and Responsibility
- Teamwork
