NHS Lothian Newly Qualified Nurses 2025 - Mental Health
Join to apply for the NHS Lothian Newly Qualified Nurses 2025 - Mental Health role at NHS Ayrshire & Arran.
Newly Qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse Recruitment 2025
Are you looking to apply for your first permanent role as a Registered Mental Health Nurse? Our Nursing and Midwifery Strategic Plan sets out our Vision, Ambitions and Values that enable excellent care for our patients and service users. 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 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 looking for passionate, caring, and motivated people to join our highly skilled nursing teams to work within our many specialities. 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.
What Opportunities Are Available
We have a variety of exciting opportunities within all areas across NHS Lothian. The majority of our vacancies are expected to be within our Community Hospitals and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
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 choices 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 from the 8th May 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
Royal Edinburgh Hospital - Craig Stenhouse (craig.stenhouse@nhs.scot)
CAMHS - Eileen Clark (eileen.clark@nhs.scot)
Hospital Based Complex Clinical Care (HBCCC) - Lesley Clark (lesley.clark@nhs.scot)
Edinburgh Community Services - Claire Borthwick (claire.borthwick@nhs.scot)
Midlothian Community Services - Karen Darroch (karen.darroch@nhs.scot)
Midlothian Community Hospital - Kirsty Jack (kirsty.jack4@nhs.scot)
East Lothian Community Services - Sarah Gossner (sarah.gossner@nhs.scot)
East Lothian Community Hospital - Kirsty Craig (kirsty.craig@nhs.scot)
West Lothian Community Services - Linda Yule (linda.yule@nhs.scot)
For more information on our sites and services please see the NHS Lothian careers website: Nursing – NHS Lothian Careers.
If you would like to arrange a stay and grow conversation to discuss your career, career pathways, and opportunities within NHS Lothian please click on the link: Career Conversations (scot.nhs.uk).
Please don't hesitate to contact the Generic Recruitment team at loth.genericrecruitment@nhs.scot should you have any queries.
Seniority level
* Internship
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
#J-18808-Ljbffr