Registered Adult Nurses - ENT/OPD Pre-Operative Assessment
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.
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ENT OPD - Pre Operative Assessment
Exciting opportunities are available to join the ENT ODP Department. We offer the opportunity to not only work within talented teams within multidisciplinary environments but to make a positive impact on the lives of thousands of patients and their families.
Find out what staff say about working in NHS Lothian at https://careers.nhslothian.scot/acute-specialist-nurses/who-we-are/
An exciting opportunity has become available to join the ENT OPD team, for a nurse experienced in Preoperative Assessment at Lauriston Building. We are looking for a passionate, caring, motivated nurse to join our highly skilled multidisciplinary team. This is open to those who already have an active NMC PIN.
What you can offer us
You enjoy working within a team
You have excellent communication skills
You are looking to join a dynamic multi-disciplinary team that is working to provide the highest standard of Preoperative Assessment to patients
You want to impact positively on the lives of patients and their families
What we can offer you
You will gain a breadth of experience within a Team that provides General ENT Outpatient clinics specialised Voice clinics, neck Lump clinics alongside Monitoring clinics for chronic disease management alongside Preoperative Assessment.
We provide Preoperative Assessment for patients having elective urgent and routine major, intermediate and minor surgeries within St John’s Hospital
We offer In-service training to support achievement of competencies and ongoing development. We also actively support development of self-confidence and organisational skills.
Salary: Band 5 Range (pro rata) per annum
Hours: Monday-Friday 0830-1700.
We are looking for candidates with post registration experience.
Should you wish to arrange an informal visit, discuss opportunities within our department or you have any further questions please contact: Vivienne O’Hara, Senior Charge Nurse on 07816122175
We look forward to hearing from you!
If you are an internal NHS Lothian Band 5 candidate we will not proceed with shortlisting and interview and instead you will move to our internal transfer process.
To find out more about the internal transfer process please click on the link below:
http://intranet.lothian.scot.nhs.uk/Directory/GenericRecruitment/Pages/Internal-Transfers.aspx
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