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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, Part Time, 29.5 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 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.
The Opportunity
The Public Health Programme team (one of seven programmes within the NMAHP
Directorate) focuses on the education and development of the public health workforce
including health protection and infection prevention and control in response to national
priorities. The programme team lead national work, implementing educational initiatives
and providing a wide range of learning resources with an emphasis on digital provision.
The key function of the role is to create and manage information assets, digital learning
resources and data for the team to enable decision making on the provision of learning
resources for a very wide range of stakeholders. This includes the design of the team’s
Turas Learn sites. The Senior Analyst role will be responsible for developing and
providing systems and reports to enable project teams to easily access relevant data.
You will work with the team and other directorate staff to collect requirements and
develop templates and data collection and reporting processes, including infographics and other forms of data representation.
Do you have a passion for data interrogation, reporting and evaluating?
Do you enjoy working collaboratively at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?
Do you have a passion for data-driven decision making?
Do you have enthusiasm and ability to work within a team?
Working within the Infection Prevention and Control Education team you will have the opportunity to bring your unique skills and experience to the table, collaborating across multiple workstreams to support the IPC education team, NMAHP Directorate, and the wider NES to ensure the product estate is maintained to ensure delivery of safe patient care.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Senior Information Analysts offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Ability to build highly effective working relationships
- Experience of data interrogation, reporting and evaluation
- Experience in providing support to the development of educational products
- Track record of working in a fast paced dynamic and rapidly changing environment
- Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
- Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workloads, to meet strict deadlines
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 Senior Information Analyst 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 Elaine Boyd, Senior Educator, elaine.boyd@nhs.scot
Next Steps
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
In person OR online interviews including a presentation will take place on Wednesday 8th October. 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.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.
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