Newly Qualified Registered Adult Nurse Recruitment 2025
Are you looking to apply for your first permanent role as a Registered Adult Nurse?
Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. It also demonstrates what you can expect from our organisation and what you can aspire to in your own career development. A collaborative, person focused approach is at the very centre of everything we aspire to achieve, and necessary to deliver care that is high quality, compassionate, safe and effective. We continue to work towards having a diverse and inclusive culture for people who work for us and use our services. We want everyone to realise their full potential and make a positive contribution. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities. We are committed to supporting the development of a nursing and midwifery workforce that is made up of diverse skills and experiences. We are interested in your passion for developing with us as a leader as well as demonstrating alignment with the values and ambitions set out in our Strategic Plan. We are committed to providing the strong foundations of clinical education with our Clinical Education and Training team, our education co-ordinators, robust induction programmes and preceptorship as well as working with you to build on your leadership strengths.
A link to the NHS Lothian Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan can be found via the link below:
NHS Lothian are delighted to accept applications from newly qualifying nurses 2025. 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.
The majority of our vacancies are expected to be within our Community Hospitals, Community Nursing, St Johns Hospital and the Western General Hospital.
Please see attached documents detailing our locations and specialties across Edinburgh and the Lothians.
We anticipate a high volume of applications and therefore the matching process will be competitive.
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.