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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: 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 Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) Directorate includes the Spiritual Care and Healthcare Chaplaincy workstreams and works at a national level to support the delivery of NES’s strategic plan and works in response to commissions from the Scottish Government, Territorial and National Boards and a range of stakeholders to develop Workforce Education. Our work and partnerships support practitioners working in Health and Social Care to develop throughout their careers and with high quality accessible resources to support their ongoing professional development.
Within the NMAHP Directorate sits the Public Health Programme, which includes health protection. NES has strategic partnerships with a range of stakeholders in relation to health protection including Public Health Scotland. A key strand of the work of the team is the provision of national, quality assured workforce education resources and opportunities in relation to vaccination.
This role offers an opportunity to influence vaccination practice and enhance service delivery.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to join our Public Health Programme.
You will have the opportunity to develop your skills as an educator within an innovative and supportive team.
Do you want to lead and work with vaccination service specific groups (in particular Public Health Scotland and NHS Boards) in the ongoing development of educational content in response to new evidence or external review and evaluation of resources?
Do you enjoy developing and maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders across disciplines?
Do you want to share your experience, knowledge and skills to benefit others?
Do you want to provide professional leadership to the workstream(s) and ensure that the project plan is fully integrated with stakeholders and the public?
Do you have a quality improvement mindset?
Working within the Public Health team in the NMAHP Directorate you will have the opportunity to share, develop and discover a stimulating, iterative and dynamic way of working.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Senior Educators offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Experience of working in an educationally or knowledge management focused environment, including experience of planning and delivering education and training
- Experience /understanding of the external political and social environment, including NHS policy issues and priorities, and the wider agenda of public policy impacting on other relevant agencies
- The ability to role model the NHS ethos and values
- Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workloads and that of others, and to meet strict deadlines
- Record of supporting and/or contributing to the continued review, development and quality improvement of an education programme
- 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 hybrid 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 Educator 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, we would welcome informal enquiries, please contact Lindsey Milroy, Principal Educator, lindsey.milroy@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.
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
Online interviews (including a presentation) will take place on Wednesday 14 & Friday 16 August 2024. The presentation topic will be sent to candidates selected for interview.
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, CVs 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