East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership

23/06/2026

Final week for feeding back comments!!

An Equally Safe Strategy for East Lothian has been designed to operate as a cross cutting framework, supporting greater alignment across the Community Planning Partnership to strengthen local accountability and ensure preventing and responding to gender-based violence is embedded across East Lothian's public services.

What are your thoughts? Please feed back your comments by Friday 30 June!
https://eastlothianconsultations.co.uk/education/equally-safe-in-east-lothian/

19/06/2026

✨LATEST VACANCIES ARE NOW LIVE!✨
If you're looking to take the next step up, a new challenge or even a career change, we have opportunities available in health and social care!

Current vacancies with NHS Lothian
• Band 2 - Porter / Driver
• Band 2 - Catering Assistant
• Band 3 - Dietetic Secretary
• Band 6 - Community Mental Health Nurse
• Band 6 - Specialist Physiotherapist
• Band 7 - Advanced Nurse Practitioner
• Band 7 - Team Manager Community Mental Health
• Speciality Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry

Current vacancies with East Lothian Council
• Emergency Care Worker
• Care Support Worker (Home Care) x2
• Workforce Development Assistant
www.eastlothian.gov.uk/elhscp/join-the-team

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18/06/2026

👖You know it, You love it, IT'S THE BIG PICK! 👖

This time you'll find the team at the Pennypit Centre in Prestonpans, between 11am to 2pm on Thursday 25 June.

Snap up clothes at bargain prices:
👗 £3 per kg of clothing
🧥 £3 per jacket
👟 Shoes from just £2
We’ve got piles of pre-loved gems for adults and kids, from shoes and jackets to stylish surprises. Many items are new or barely worn!

Those details again:
📍 Pennypit Centre in Prestonpans
🕚 Thursday, 25 June - 11am to 2pm
💵 CASH ONLY
🛍️ Bring your own bags - you’ll need them!
📦 Got clothes to donate? Drop your unwanted clothing, shoes and textiles at the black textile banks at any East Lothian Recycling Centre to support future Big Pick events.

REUSE. REWEAR. KEEP IT LOCAL. 👚🧢🧤👖👠 ♻️

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18/06/2026

Developing an Equally Safe Strategy for East Lothian

An Equally Safe Strategy for East Lothian has been designed to operate as a cross cutting framework, supporting greater alignment across the Community Planning Partnership to strengthen local accountability and ensure preventing and responding to gender-based violence is embedded across East Lothian's public services.

Aligned with the Scottish Equally Safe Strategy the goal is make East Lothian a place where everyone feels equally safe.

We would like to receive your feedback on the proposed strategy:

The strategic aims include:
1. Prevent violence before it occurs
2. Strengthen early identification and response
3. Improve safety and long term outcomes
4. Hold perpetrators to account
5. Challenge harmful attitudes and promote equality
6. Provide visible, accountable leadership

What are your thoughts? Please feed back your comments:
https://eastlothianconsultations.co.uk/education/equally-safe-in-east-lothian/

18/06/2026

Vaccinations Team is coming to Dunbar!

Our vaccination team will be at the Dunbar Library, Bleachingfield Centre, Dunbar to provide Covid Spring Booster and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccinations. This is a great opportunity to protect yourself, your family and your community against preventable illnesses.

📅When/ 🗺️Where/ 🕰️Time:
• Friday 25 June
• Dunbar Library, Bleachingfield Centre, Countess Crescent, Dunbar, EH42 1DX
• 10am to 12:45pm and 2pm to 3:30pm

If you are eligible, we encourage you to come along. Getting vaccinated is one of the simplest and most effective ways to protect your health and the health of those around you.

The following vaccinations will be available on the day:
Covid Spring Booster - a respiratory virus that spreads easily through the air when people cough or sneeze. It can also spread when people touch surfaces where the virus has landed then touch their eyes, nose or mouth. Find out more: www.nhsinform.scot/covid-19-vaccine/

RSV – A common respiratory illness that can be found year-round that can sometimes lead to severe lower respiratory infections such as pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. Find out more here: https://www.nhslothian.scot/vaccinations/routine-rsv-vaccination/

17/06/2026

To all our NHS Lothian estates and facilities colleagues across East Lothian .. we thank you!!

Estates and Facilities are services that are often overlooked when people think about hospital care. However, without the hard work and dedication of these teams, the environments across our hospitals and community premises would be very different.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of our staff, both in hospital settings and out in our community sites, for everything they do and for the consistent effort they put in every day.

THANK YOU!!!!

Today is National Healthcare Estates & Facilities Day and we would like to thank all our incredible staff that work in Estates & Facilities across NHS Lothian. Thank you!

16/06/2026

Vaccination Team is coming to Ormiston!

Our vaccination team will be at Ormiston Library to provide Covid Spring Booster and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccinations. This is a great opportunity to protect yourself, your family and your community against preventable illnesses.

📅When/ 🗺️Where/ 🕰️Time:
• Friday 19 June 2026
• Ormiston Library, 5A Meadowbank, Ormiston, EH35 5LD
• 2:00pm to 3:30pm

If you are eligible, we encourage you to come along. Getting vaccinated is one of the simplest and most effective ways to protect your health and the health of those around you.

The following vaccinations will be available on the day:
Covid Spring Booster - a respiratory virus that spreads easily through the air when people cough or sneeze. It can also spread when people touch surfaces where the virus has landed then touch their eyes, nose or mouth. Find out more: www.nhsinform.scot/covid-19-vaccine/

RSV – A common respiratory illness that can be found year-round that can sometimes lead to severe lower respiratory infections such as pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. Find out more here: https://www.nhslothian.scot/vaccinations/routine-rsv-vaccination/

16/06/2026

Launch of East Lothian Carer ID Cards!

If you provide unpaid care for a friend, neighbour or loved one, you deserve the recognition and benefits it can give you!

Our new Carer ID Card is now available for adult unpaid carers across East Lothian.

Why you should consider applying for one:

- Recognition: carers can feel that places and services don't recognise their role and it would be helpful for them to have something to show that recognises the support they provide and encourages others to think carer.

- In case of emergency: carers worry about what might happen to the person they care for if something was to happen to them, the carer ID card will give two emergency contact numbers that should be used in case of emergency.

- Creating a carer friendly community: our local carer support organisations already have great relationships with many local businesses and carers would like to use their cards to access discounts or special offers.

Ready to get yours? Apply here: www.eastlothian.gov.uk/carer

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15/06/2026

The vaccinations team is coming to Pencaitland

Our vaccination team will be at Carriage House, Pencaitland Parish Church to provide Covid Spring Booster and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccinations. This is a great opportunity to protect yourself, your family and your community against preventable illnesses.

📅When/ 🗺️Where/ 🕰️Time:
• Friday 19 June 2026
• The Carriage House, Pencaitland Parish Church, Pencaitland, EH34 5DL
• 10am to 12:30pm

If you are eligible, we encourage you to come along. Getting vaccinated is one of the simplest and most effective ways to protect your health and the health of those around you.

The following vaccinations will be available on the day:
Covid Spring Booster - a respiratory virus that spreads easily through the air when people cough or sneeze. It can also spread when people touch surfaces where the virus has landed then touch their eyes, nose or mouth. Find out more: www.nhsinform.scot/covid-19-vaccine/

RSV – A common respiratory illness that can be found year-round that can sometimes lead to severe lower respiratory infections such as pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions. Find out more here: https://www.nhslothian.scot/vaccinations/routine-rsv-vaccination/

14/06/2026

💜 Carers Week!

Chief Officer of East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership reflects back on Carers Week, offering her sincere thanks to everything that carers / young carers / care givers do to help their loved ones, friends and neighbours every single day!