The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) is one of Scotland’s most prestigious hospitals with a world-leading reputation for medical excellence, clinical research, and innovation. It is NHS Lothian’s largest, site delivering medical and surgical services to people from across Lothian and beyond on a local, regional, and national basis.
As a major acute teaching hospital, the RIE is surrounded by leading facilities, such as the Clinical Research Facility, the Anne Rowling Institute and The Queen’s Medical Research Institute meaning that clinical care and research are intrinsically linked.
The RIE has the busiest Emergency Department in Scotland and is one of the four Major Trauma Centers north of the Border, serving people from across the southeast of Scotland and beyond. It is also the only site for liver, pancreas, and pancreatic islet cell transplantation and one of two sites for kidney transplantation in Scotland.
The hospital provides a full range of medical and surgical services, including the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, based within the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP), which sits connected on the same campus. You can read more about the specialties available at the RIE by clicking the relevant links.
Even in a substantive post, the RIE nursing teams fully support and encourage requests for rotation into other specialties/areas within the site to gain additional experience and skills for the future.
There are always exciting recruitment opportunities available and, as well as offering substantive posts, the RIE also has a resource pool of trained and untrained nurses who support the site, wherever they may be required. These roles allow colleagues the unique opportunity to gain site wide experience, across a variety of different directorates. They offer a family friendly and flexible approach to work, which is something the site recognises colleagues may need at some point in their career. Should you wish to discuss either resource or rotational posts please contact Jac Reid, Clinical Nurse Manager, Email – jacqueline.reid@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk or telephone 07890 388 717.
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Department of Clinical Neurosciences
