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Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office and hybrid working. Frequent presence at our Glasgow and Edinburgh offices is a requirement of this role. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Work Pattern: Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week.
You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.
Who We Are
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is the national health board with statutory responsibilities to effect sustainable change through workforce development, education and training across the health and social care system in Scotland, while working at UK level with partner organisations.
The Workforce Directorate works at a national level to support the delivery of NES’s strategic plan and is a key partner to the delivery of Scottish Government priorities for the health and social care workforce.
The Workforce Directorate plays a multifaceted and dynamic role within NES. We're not just responsible for facilitating the attraction, recruitment, support, training, development, reward, and recognition of NES's workforce; we also hold a crucial responsibility in the employment of doctors and dentists in training across Scotland. Our remit also extends externally to NHSScotland in the recruitment of medical and dental trainees and other vocational trainee groups, across Scotland's broader health sector.
We provide a comprehensive People and Organisational Development strategy, and our corporate involvement also extends to managing organisational change through consultancy services. Additionally, we are deeply engaged in ensuring that NES fulfils its commitments to Equality and Diversity, not only within our own workforce but also across all organisational activities.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an Associate Director to lead the HR function within NES to contribute to the development and delivery of the NES Strategic Framework and operational plans; and for developing and implementing people strategies to support the delivery of these plans.
Do you want to improve the health and wellbeing of the people in Scotland by ensuring we have the right people in the right place at the right time to deliver future health and care services?
Do you enjoy having a significant leadership role with responsibility for multi-disciplinary teams delivering key services?
Do you enjoy working in fast pace and ever-changing environment, working with colleagues across the organisation to meet challenging, meaningful goals?
Leading within the Workforce Directorate you will have the opportunity to make a key contribution to Scotland's national health and social care.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Associate Directors offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we would love you to apply:
• You will have significant experience of working at a senior level with the NHS, care, or wider public sector or in a complex organisation such as a university or private sector organisation as well as experience in playing a leading role in strategic planning and decision-making
• You will be confident and experienced working at executive and senior management level
• You will be a proven leader, values driven, and performance focussed ensuring that the HR team (c.50) are energised, high-performing and role model ambassadors for the organisation
• You will have a strong customer mindset and experience in delivering a wide range of HR services at volume, establishing the processes, controls, and measures to ensure high quality, reliable, delivery
• You will have HR and employment law expertise as well as substantial strategic HR business partnering experience
• You will be experienced in working in partnership with Trade Unions and building highly effective relationships at all levels internally and externally
• Support strategic policy development and implementation along with appropriate service support, design and enablement, that reflects both corporate and systemwide directives
• Proven experience in budgetary, performance and risk management
Benefits Which Matter
As a valued employee of NHS Scotland, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:
• Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and remote working
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
• Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday
• NHS discounts and more
Diversity and Inclusion
Developing a successful national service for Scotland is impossible without ensuring we consider the diverse needs, perspectives, and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland in our work.
We are focused on hiring the absolute best talent available for NES, and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and aim to ensure everyone is treated fairly, with respect and has a positive recruitment experience – regardless of the outcome.
It is not essential to be in an Associate Director role right now. You may be returning from a career break (e.g. maternity, paternity, caring for others) or returning after working in another field. Your experiences elsewhere can bring a fresh perspective to our work.
If you are considering applying and feel it would be helpful to discuss this initially, please contact Tracey Ashworth Davies, Tracey.Ashworth-Davies@nhs.scot
Next Steps
Our recruitment process is currently 100% remote and if successful you would initially work remotely, working from our offices as operationally required. Frequent presence at both our Glasgow and Edinburgh offices is a requirement of this role.
Following application submission, the recruitment process will be in two stages. Successful candidates will be contacted, via email, by Wednesday 1 May and invited to participate in:
1. Online Psychometric assessments. This will involve each candidate completing three online assessments, between Wednesday 1 May and Monday 6 May. Once completed, a follow up (online) call between each candidate and our assessment provider will take place - this will last up to 90 minutes and will be scheduled between Tuesday 7 and Thursday 9 May.
2. Panel Interview, including presentation, will then take place between Thursday 16 and Friday 17 May 2024
Full details regarding these two stages (including links to the online assessments) will be emailed to those candidates invited to interview.
For further information regarding this post, please refer to the Job Information Pack below.
Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CV’s will not be accepted.
If you have any queries regarding the NHS Scotland National Recruitment Portal or the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact our recruitment partners, the East Region Recruitment Service, at: EoS.ERRS@nhs.scot