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Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, home and hybrid working. We are happy to talk about how you want to work.
Work Pattern: Full time 37 hours per week
Fixed term or Secondment**
**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) plays a critical role in supporting the health and care sector to have the right people, in the right place at the right time through education, training and workforce development. People are the lifeblood of the NHS and social care; NES is right at the heart of ensuring a future supply. We’re also central to delivering digital solutions which enable improvement in service to Scottish citizens and support our workforce to deliver it.
The People & Culture 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. It also provides a comprehensive People and Organisational Development strategy and service for the people who work for NES and externally to NHSScotland in the recruitment of medical and dental trainees and other vocational trainee groups.
The Digitally Enabled Workforce (DEW) team at NHS Education for Scotland is a high-impact, award-winning team working remotely across the UK. Commissioned by Scottish Government and COSLA, we deliver on national priorities from Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Strategy, the Health and Social Care Data Strategy, the Care in the Digital Age Delivery Plan and the recently published Health and Social Care Service Renewal Framework.
DEW thrive on what they do, empowered to innovate, adapt, and demonstrate how teams should work in a digital age. Providing national learning resources, networks and programmes for the whole health and social care sector that includes NHS, Local Authorities, Health and Social Care Partnerships, Social Work, Social Care, Care and Support Providers, Housing, Third and Independent Sectors.
Find out more about the DEW team here: Digitally Enabled Workforce | Turas | Learn
The Opportunity
We are looking for someone who can work in a fast-paced innovative team, where the impact and reputation of our work truly matters.
As this is a short-term contract the Digital Workforce Analyst will be expected to step into the role with confidence and immediately apply their expertise.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Brings a sharp analytical mindset to identifying digital, data and leadership capability gaps, and evaluating learning impact.
- Can translate workforce research and data into actionable insights.
- Has proven expertise in digital, data and digital leadership workforce analysis.
- Can evaluate learning impact and uncover gaps to inform smarter decisions.
- Provides analysis that allows the needs for digitally enabling the workforce to be understood.
- Uses insights to identify requirements and design solutions that make a difference.
- Is flexible with an innovative approach to solving problems and delivering streamlined solutions that make real impact.
- Not only brings the right skills but is also strongly aligned to our team’s values and working culture.
Does this sound like you?
Why This Role Matters
Joining the DEW team means stepping into an agile, nationally recognised programme where the impact and reputation of our work truly matters. As the accountable delivery partner for Scottish Government and COSLA, we shape the digital, data, and digital leadership capabilities that will enable the digital future of Scotland’s health and social care workforce. This role is a critical part of the successful delivery of the programme.
Success in this role depends on both technical expertise and the ability to work effectively as part of a supportive and high-performing team, connecting externally with our partners, stakeholder groups and users across multiple organisations, representing the commission and delivery on a national level.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Analysis of further requirements for the national Digital and Data Capability Framework and Self-Assessment Tool.
- Implementing solutions that meet organisational requirements to access their Digital and Data Capability Framework Self-assessment Tool data, working with organisations to support them through this process, analysing associated data.
- Using analysis to determine the requirements for, and identify gaps in, the Building Digital, Data and Digital Leadership programme resources, and discovery of resources to fill these gaps.
- Undertaking workforce analysis through specifically designed surveys and other forms of information and data capture.
- Gathering and document requirements that allow the needs of the digital, data and specialist workforce to be understood, using these requirements to inform the priorities of this workstream.
- Analysing sector wide digital champion initiatives, supporting organisations to set up and develop digital champions groups that can help drive technology adoption strategies.
- Determining the requirements for, and support the design of, effective resources and solutions to improve digital, data, and digital leadership capabilities across the sector.
- Proactively engaging, working with, and taking direction from, our commissioners in Scottish Government and COSLA.
- Making connections across the UK and whole sector as required for the role.
- Contributing to a culture of innovation and agility.
What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking analyst who:
- Is skilled in undertaking analysis at scale across the whole health and social care sector for a national programme.
- Has experience of aligning work with national strategic priorities.
- Is able to research, collect, process, and interpret information and data, and translate these into meaningful requirements and insights.
- Knows about researching and assessing user needs, measuring impact, and using data to inform and shape sector requirements for digital, data and digital leadership resources.
- Has experience of process mapping, risk assessments, options appraisals, business cases and specification of requirements associated with elements of developing a digital workforce and delivery of the programme.
- Is able to identify and addressing challenges related to digital skills, data skills, and digital leadership development at a national level across the sector
- Has knowledge of sector wide digital champion initiatives.
- Has knowledge of the skills and capabilities required for the specialist Digital, Data and Technology workforce to enable the accurate analysis of this workforce.
- Is expert in using M365 tools including, Power BI, Power Automate, Copilot, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft 365 applications to automate processes.
- Has a self-led learning approach and enthusiasm for showcasing new digital tools and ways of working.
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.
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 Paula Baird Programme Lead Digitally Enabled Workforce paula.baird@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 between
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
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