Edinburgh District Nursing Service

Welcome to the new designated Twitter site for the Edinburgh District Nursing Service replacing the old @edinburghdn site. Share far and wide as we show the world the amazing work the Edinburgh DNs are doing in our communities! 👩‍⚕️🧑‍⚕️

Are you a newly qualifying registered nurse? Then this event is for you! Come along to Waverley Court on Wed 5 March, 10am-2pm to have a chat about working as a nurse with us. You can find out more about different roles, the sites we cover and the vacancies we have currently.

🏆Nominations are now OPEN for our Celebrating Success Awards 2025🏆 🦸Have you or someone you love received exceptional care? All members of the public can nominate an NHS Lothian health worker to be their Health Hero. Nominate them here: ow.ly/Glrt50QvOpa

Are you a registered nurse looking for a new opportunity? Come along to our recruitment day next week! Adult and mental health nursing vacancies (Bands 5 & 6) are available. Apply in advance for an interview on the day! 🔽 ow.ly/oLaY50P8otF #AGreatPlaceToWork

Leaders, remember: your job isn’t just to lead but to remove obstacles. Clear the path, and your team will soar. #Leadership #TeamSuccess

Calling all registered adult and mental health nurses📢 Join us on Thursday 20 July to find out about our current recruitment opportunities👉 edinburghhsc.scot/registered-adu… @NHS_Lothian

Are you a District Nurse Team Leader? We'd love to hear from you about the state of #DistrictNursing today to update our 'District Nursing Today' (2019) report - please fill in our survey and share with all DN Team Leaders: eu.surveymonkey.com/r/DNToday2023 @alisonleary1 @CrystalOldman

Why loss and lack of recruitment of district and community nurses resulting in rise in avoidable hospital admissions and delayed discharge of old patients @TheQNI @QNI_Scotland @RCNDNForum @WeCommNurses @ADNEuk @jagreen121 @SamSherrington @alisonleary1 rcni.com/primary-health…

Opportunities for Band 3, 4, 5 and 6 to join our district nursing teams in Edinburgh! Great team, great place to work!

Save the date! Fantastic opportunities to join amazing teams next Thursday!

Leadership is not an exact formula. It can be messy & hard to put in a structure at times. That’s because humans are free flowing, emotional creatures with messy traits. So when you feel like you’re not doing a great job, remember that this isn’t a tick box exercise. It’s life.

Following on from yesterday’s session with the North West community nursing team, today it was the turn of the amazing North East Team and again great ideas of how we work collectively to improve the service and care provided

Value time spent today with some of our Edinburgh District Nursing and Community Nursing teams from north west. Despite the challenges you couldn’t help to be impressed by their commitment to providing high quality person centred care @NHS_Lothian @EdinburghHSCP

Are you looking for a change in career? Come and join us in the community! We are happy to offer shadow shifts if you are interested, Lots of opportunities to develop within the service! Get in touch! @EdinburghDNs @LHall2267 @sarahchalmers28 apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Lots of exciting opportunities to join our amazing District Nursing Teams around Edinburgh. Adverts out now for both Band 5 and Band 6 positions: Community Staff Nurse posts- apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?… Community Nurse Practitioner/SPDN- apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Great example of practice development. Well done Barbara

Yesterday, @BarbaraMole119 presented an engaging project at our Community Staff Nurse Orientation Day. She has designed an innovative Toolkit to support decision-making when delivering care to people with palliative care needs to make staff nurses feel more prepared and confident

On Wednesday we all celebrated the retirement of two of our most committed and inspirational SPDNs. With a combined 45 years service to @EdinburghDNs their knowledge and experience will be sorely missed across the city. Let's all celebrate Barbara Halliday and Nicki White!!

Celebrating @nickiwhite324 and @BarbaraHallida5 retirement 🥳 it’s been a pleasure to have worked together as practice teachers (Assessors) sharing our knowledge and experience as district nurses(SPDN). Enjoy your well deserved rest from it all 🥂😊@EdinburghDNs

The Preparing for Work in Health and Social Care in Scotland Programme has been designed to support new and existing staff to deliver safe, effective, person-centred care. Find out more and access resources here 👉nhsscotlandacademy.co.uk/education-and-…

NHS Scotland Academy, @skillsdevscot and health boards across NHS Scotland have developed a new pathway pilot that will provide high school students in S4, S5 and S6 with the opportunity to gain a formal qualification🏥To find out more, visit 👉#healthcarepathwaypilot1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nhsscotlandacademy.co.uk/widening-acces…