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About NHS Lanarkshire
NHS Lanarkshire serves a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas. There is also an area wide Public Health Service which is based at Kirklands, Bothwell.
Map of Lanarkshire county and its close proximity to Scotland’s largest cities Glasgow and Edinburgh
Map of North and South Lanarkshire and the Health and Social Care Partnerships
Acute Services
NHS Lanarkshire’s Acute Services provide a comprehensive range of acute adult and children’s services to the population of Lanarkshire and more specialised health services for patients throughout Scotland.
University Hospital Wishaw, University Hospital Monklands, located in Airdrie and University Hospital Hairmyres, located in East Kilbride are the t main acute hospital sites. The university hospital status was granted thanks to a ground breaking partnership between NHS Lanarkshire, Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) and the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). The partnership will explore the potential for future research links and joint research projects. It will also see collaborative working to aid student recruitment, student employment and student projects.
University Hospital Wishaw
University Hospital Wishaw is a district general hospital with 626 inpatient beds and a 24 hour accident and emergency department. It opened on the 29th of May 2001, replacing the former Law Hospital. University Hospital Wishaw was built under PFI arrangements.
Its services include but are not limited to
- Lanarkshire’s maternity unit, which is the second largest in Scotland, delivering around 5500 babies every year
- Paediatric neonatal unit
- MRI scanner
- Elderly care and psychiatric day hospitals
- Emergency care unit containing an integrated accident and emergency unit with a 36 bed ward
- Orthopaedic trauma centre for Lanarkshire
University Hospital Monklands
University Hospital Monklands is a district general hospital located in Airdrie and has 411 inpatient beds and a 24-hour emergency department. The hospital opened its doors to patients in 1977.
Its services include but are not limited to
- Lanarkshire’s renal (kidney) unit, providing an unprecedented level of care for Lanarkshire’s renal patients
- Lanarkshire’s inpatient services for ear, nose and throat (ENT), dermatology and communicable diseases
Monklands Replacement Project (MRP)
The Monklands Replacement Project (MRP) is NHS Lanarkshire’s exciting and positive vision for University Hospital Monklands and the local and wider community it serves, proposing a major investment in Lanarkshire’s hospital estate by rebuilding the hospital on a new site at Wester Moffat, east of Airdrie.
A new, state-of-the-art University Hospital Monklands will support the required clinical model (how clinicians will treat patients in the future) to meet the objectives set out in NHS Lanarkshire’s healthcare strategy.
University Hospital Hairmyres
University Hospital Hairmyres is a district general hospital built under PFI arrangements and is situated in East Kilbride with a 24 hour accident and emergency department. It has 492 inpatient beds. The original Hairmyres Hospital was an old military style hospital occupying multiple sites. The decision to redevelop the site was made in 1998, and the new hospital opened in 2001.
Services include but are not limited to:
- A full range of inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic and clinical support services.
- West of Scotland Regional Vascular Service Centre and Lanarkshire’s only cardiac catheterisation centre, consisting of 2 new state-of-the-art catheterisation laboratories for diagnosis and treatment of blood vessel blockages around the heart.
- MRI and CT scanners.
- Psychiatric beds.
At NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to delivering high quality, innovative health and social care that is person-centred.
North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships
NHS Lanarkshire and North and South Lanarkshire Councils formed the North and South Lanarkshire Heath and Social Care Partnerships to develop a wide range of community facing health improvement, health and social care services with locality based planning and delivery.
The partnerships include a range of community health and social care services, community hospitals (mainly for long term conditions and continuing care for older people), as well as a wide range of services for patients with mental health problems and learning disabilities. Services also include GP practices providing many primary and community care services throughout Lanarkshire. Children’s and Young Peoples Services are also provided and managed within the partnership’s structure.
There have been a number of new community health centres built over the past 5 years, improving facilities for the population of Lanarkshire. Carluke, Coatbridge, Airdrie, Kilsyth, Wishaw and East Kilbride all benefited from new state-of-the-art centres being built, offering a much wider range of services for local communities. The new centres also offer improved working conditions to members of staff within the primary care teams.
Our Vision
Our vision, at NHS Lanarkshire, is to ensure we meet the needs of individuals and communities by providing high-quality safe and effective care through an empowered and flexible workforce which understands the diverse needs of the population. Visit our Corporate Strategy page to find out more about our Vision, Values and Objectives.
With so many varied careers on offer, there is a job for you no matter what your interests, skills or qualifications.
If successful in securing employment you will become part of a talented, passionate team of people who are committed to providing the best care and treatment to patients. You will also enjoy one of the most competitive and flexible benefits packages offered by any employer in the UK.
NHS Scotland employers are required to ensure fair and effective management of their most valuable resource; staff.
This is achieved through staff governance standards which apply to all employees. The standards set out what you can expect from your employer, and your responsibilities as an employee.
The standards require NHS Lanarkshire to demonstrate that staff are:
- Well informed
- Appropriately trained and developed
- Involved in decisions
- Treated fairly and consistently, with dignity and respect, in an environment where diversity is valued
- Provided with a continuously improving and safe working environment, promoting the health and wellbeing of staff, patients and the wider community.
The Standards also require staff to:
- Keep themselves up to date with developments relevant to their job within the organisation
- Commit to continuous personal and professional development
- Adhere to the standards set by their regulatory bodies
- Actively participate in discussions on issues that affect them either directly or via their trade union/professional organisation
- Treat all staff and patients with dignity and respect while valuing diversity
- Ensure that their actions maintain and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff, patients and carers
NHS Lanarkshire fully supports and promotes an open and fair culture.
We want staff to feel confident about raising concerns and reporting adverse events, in the knowledge that reports will be positively received and acted upon, with feedback being provided to staff.
This commitment is reflected in our Whistleblowing Policy, and in our Policy for the Management of Adverse Events.
Promoting Equality and Diversity
There is no place for discrimination in NHS Lanarkshire on any grounds.
NHS Lanarkshire recognises the value of diversity within the workplace – the skills and qualities that every individual brings to our organisation.
The Equality Act 2010 replaces previous anti-discrimination laws with a single act which strengthens the protection afforded in some situations and creates nine protected characteristics, which cannot be used as a reason to treat people unfairly. Every person has one or more of the protected characteristics, so the act protects everyone against unfair treatment. The protected characteristics are:
- Age
- Disability
- Gender reassignment
- Marriage and civil partnership
- Pregnancy and maternity
- Race
- Religion or belief
- Sex
- Sexual orientation
We are proud to be accredited with the Disability Confident Leader Award and are committed to the values of the award.
As users of the Disability Confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancies.
Widening Access and Participation to Employment Strategy 2023/2026
NHS Lanarkshire is committed to putting in place a healthcare workforce which is representative of the communities we serve, with particular focus on widening access for those who are underrepresented within our existing workforce, from lower socioeconomic and deprived areas, or from minorities backgrounds. The intent to realise our potential as an Anchor organisation is articulated in a range of local and national strategic plans but is a key feature in the Lanarkshire healthcare strategy; Our Health Together. Read the full strategy below:
Our Associations
EMEN Network
The NHS Lanarkshire Ethnic Minority Employee Network was established in 2020 and meets quarterly with over 340 members from across the organisation.
Projects it currently supports and promotes include Whistleblowing, International Medical Graduates, co-ordination of Black History Month activities and development and distribution of a quarterly newsletter.
The NHS Lanarkshire Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender + Network was launched in February 2022 and has over 50 members.
The network has recently supported the distribution of over 1400 LGBT+ inclusive pride badges to NHS Lanarkshire employees to support and promote LGBT+ visibility for our staff, patients and carers and is currently planning activities for LGBT history month in February.
Staff Disability Group
Our third employee network will be launched at the end of October 2022 for NHS Lanarkshire staff with disabilities.
Under the Equality Act 2010 you are considered to be disabled if you ‘have a physical or mental impairment and that impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities’
This definition is wide and covers a number of different conditions, including those which can be supported well with medication/treatment/support i.e. taking tablets for a diabetic condition, software that supports dyslexia or having counselling for a mental health issue.
The disability staff network will aim to provide:
- Â a network of mutual support and a collective voice for staff with disabilities and restrictive health conditions,
- opportunities to feed back any challenges faced at work due to a disability and
- to help create an inclusive workplace.
Information on all our employee networks is available on our FirstPort intranet pages – search ‘Staff Equality Network Groups’.
