Registered Adult Nurses
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 following link:
Recruitment process – We use a values and competency based recruitment process that is linked to the ambitions set our in our Strategic Plan. Click the link below for more information on our interview questions:
How to Apply – NHS Lothian Careers
NHS Lothian provide a Generic Recruitment process, no need for multiple applications or interviews. We accept one application, you will have one interview and there will be one decision, with your skills, experience and choice being matched to one of our vacancies.
NHS Lothian - Registered Adult Nurse Open Day
Friday 31st October 2025
Are you looking for a fantastic nursing career in the Edinburgh and the Lothians? Then come along to the NHS Lothian Open Day on Friday 31st October 2025 between 09.30am and 14.30pm where we look forward to welcoming you!
We have a list of available vacancies below, please note that this list is subject to change :
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – Pre-op Assessment
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – Orthopaedics
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – Cardiology, Ward 103
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – Cardiothoracic ICU, Ward 111 (fixed-term, 1 year)
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – Clinical Research Facility
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – Renal Outpatients, Dialysis
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – Outpatients 1/2/3 (part-time 36 hours)
St. John's Hospital – Emergency Department
St. John's Hospital – Theatres
Pan Lothian – Occupational Health (part-time 29.4 hours)
Western General Hospital – Lithotripsy X-Ray, Radiology (part-time 23 hours)
East Lothian Community Hospital – Medicine of the Elderly, Ward 3
East Lothian Community Hospital – Stepdown, Ward 4
East Lothian Community Hospital – Orthopaedic Rehab, Ward 6
Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership – District Nursing (fixed-term 12 months)
Midlothian Health & Social Care Partnership – District Nursing (part-time 36 hours)
Midlothian Community Hospital - HBCCC-Complex Care-Palliative, Loanesk Ward
Prison Healthcare – HMP Addiewell
Prison Healthcare – HMP Edinburgh (fixed-term 6 months)
The Open Day is an opportunity for candidates to engage with all stages of the recruitment process, a range of representatives from clinical teams will be available on the day from various specialities and sites across NHS Lothian. Available vacancies will be from our across Acute, Community Hospital, Community Nursing and Prison Healthcare teams.
Candidates are invited to attend the open day which will take place in St John's Hospital Canteen (3rd floor) at Howden Road West, Livingston, EH54 6PP. Please see the volunteers at the main reception on the ground floor who will be able to direct you to the open day.
If you would like to be interviewed on the day, you can must submit an application via this advert.
Please note that Microsoft Teams interviews will not be available on this date.
We look forward to meeting you soon!
If you have any questions about the application process, please contact the Generic Recruitment Team at loth.genericrecruitment@nhs.scot
This advert may close early due to a high volume of applications.
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:
Internal recruitment application process for nursing vacancies (scot.nhs.uk)
If you would like to arrange a careers conversation to discuss your career, career pathways and opportunities within NHS Lothian please clink on the link below:
Career Conversations (scot.nhs.uk)
Find out what our staff say about working in NHS Lothian at: Who We Are – NHS Lothian Careers