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Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office and hybrid working. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Work Pattern: Fixed Term, Part Time, 18 hours and 30 minutes (18.5 hours) per week.
Fixed-term or Secondment** until 31 March 2025
**For NHS applicants, an NHS secondment will be offered in the first instance. For non-NHS applicants, a fixed-term or secondment would be considered.
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 Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) Directorate works to support the education, training and continuing professional development of nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health and social care chaplains and healthcare support workers. The Directorate is also responsible for providing education, training and workforce development across wider professional groups and disciplines, often in partnership with other agencies, to support key policy drivers.
This role sits in NMAHP’s Workforce Education and Career Development programme which is one of the largest programme teams in the directorate. The team’s portfolio is diverse and dynamic which allows for lots of opportunities for you to be involved in different areas of work.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a motivated, hardworking individual to join our team.
Working as a Senior Officer within the Workforce Education and Career Development team, you will have the opportunity to provide comprehensive administration support and project management skills across several areas of work.
Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?
Do you enjoy making a difference, influencing improved ways of working, and sharing innovative ideas?
Do you have well-developed organisational, communication and negotiation skills?
Do you enjoy problem solving and collaborating with others?
Working within the NMAHP Workforce Education and Career Development team, you will have the opportunity to bring your unique skills and experience to the table, collaborating across multiple workstreams to effect real change within NES, and further afield.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Senior Officers offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
• Extensive experience working in the field of business operations, including providing project management skills as well as business support to meetings and production of formal minutes/action notes
• Ability to communicate clearly, effectively, and confidently at all levels in the workplace, both written and verbal, always using a high degree of tact and diplomacy
• Experience of maintaining comprehensive and complex documentation in a manner that is secure, but is also accessible
• Ability to work on own initiative, to effectively organise and prioritise own workloads and that of others, and to meet strict deadlines
• Experience of working and managing a shared online mailbox, and multiple shared online calendars (Microsoft 365)
• Ability to proactively identify and communicate improvements to processes and systems
• Ability to work with complex data and present in a user-friendly format
• Problem solving skills and at times the ability to work under pressure
• Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
• Line management and coaching/mentoring experience
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 very 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’s not essential to be in a Senior Officer 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 Carol Curran, Programme Officer, carol.curran@nhs.scot
Next Steps
**NHS candidates will be considered firstly on a secondment basis, and so are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current NHS employer at the earliest opportunity, ideally prior to application.
Our recruitment process is currently 100% remote and if successful you would initially work remotely, working from our offices as operationally required.
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
Online interviews will take place on Monday 22 July 2024.
For further information 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