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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, 18.5 hours per week (18 hours and 30 minutes)
Fixed-term or Secondment** until 31st March 2026
**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.
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Practice Education and Pre-Registration Business Support Team for the Nursing Midwifery & Allied Health Professional Directorate (NMAHP) within NHS Education for Scotland.
As a Senior Officer, you’ll play a key role in supporting the delivery of a varied and impactful programme of work focused on Pre-Registration education for Nursing, Midwifery, and Paramedic professions. This role offers the chance to contribute to national priorities and help ensure Scotland’s future workforce is well-prepared enabling the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care.
Working closely with Heads of Programme, Principal and Senior Educators, and other colleagues and stakeholders across the system, you will lead and support the delivery of key workstreams, using your skills in planning, coordination, and communication to drive progress and deliver meaningful outcomes. You will bring people together, navigate complexity, and help shape solutions that make a real difference.
Do you Do you enjoy collaborating with stakeholders to co-develop innovative solutions?
Do you Do you have a passion for programme management?
Do you Do you enjoy rising to the challenge in a fast paced, complex environment?
Working within the Pre-Registration Business Support Team offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of Scotland’s future health and care workforce through national pre-registration programmes in nursing, midwifery, and paramedicine. It is a chance to work at the heart of strategic education initiatives, collaborate with key stakeholders, and influence meaningful change while building expertise in programme delivery and workforce planning.
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:
- Project management support, where applicable. Planning and organising a variety of tasks, including the involvement in multiple projects and programmes of work and the contribution to the definition of project scope and setting of achievable project objectives.
- Coordinate and contribute to the production of risk registers, operational plans, reports, communications, minutes, course evaluations, promotional materials, and statistics.
- Ensure that data capture, storage and use comply with current legislation.
- 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 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 Nicola Shennan, Programme Officer - Nicola.Shennan@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.
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
Online interviews will take place on week beginning 13thth October 2025.
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