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Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week
Duration: Fixed Term / Secondment until 31st March 2024*
Flexible Location: NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, remote and hybrid working (within the UK). We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Who We Are
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is an education and training body and a special health board within NHS Scotland, with responsibility of developing and delivering education and training for the healthcare workforce in Scotland.
The core function of the NMAHP Directorate is to support the education, training and continuing professional development of nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health and social care chaplains and their 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 imperatives.
What you'll do
Key tasks will include but are not restricted to:
Support the Head of Programme (acute) to deliver objectives in relation to the Cancer Prehabilitation / Waiting Well Programme, relating to the evaluation of existing resources and opportunities for potential scale up and National application:
- Working with a third sector organisation to explore how their/if their existing prehabilitation programme could be developed into a train the trainer resource
- Education to support workforce capability to undertake a nutrition screening
- Reviewing the education for workforce that already exist on the National Prehabilitation website to consider how this could be further promoted/accessed by more of the workforce (including specific tools and resources)
- Liaison with key stakeholders regarding national service needs, with synthesis and analysis of needs and potential solutions
- Analysis and evaluation of exisiting / new education resource needs
- Maintain and enhance national links with key stakeholders across disciplines; informing service and educational development in a Once for Scotland approach.
- Manage, co-ordinate and support colleagues, within their area of expertise and across NHS Scotland, in developing the learning environment and ensuring education/training provision supports policy initiatives and are cognisant of existing educational frameworks
- Develop information sharing networks, structures, and establish appropriate processes supporting effective two-way communication impacting upon colleagues at national, regional and health board levels across NHS Scotland.
- Developing briefing documents, background papers, reports and other materials as appropriate for stakeholder groups such as Steering Groups and Scottish Government Health Department
- Lead and manage the development of any future additional training provision, responsible for the educational implementation and delivery of training as well as the impact assessment.
What you'll bring
These will include but are not restricted to;
- Professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council or with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Master’s degree (or actively working towards) or equivalent experience
- Substantial postgraduate experience, including enhanced responsibility in an educational or healthcare post
- Significant experience in a specialty area, with experience of working within a multidisciplinary environment, ideally with understanding of innovation and change.
- Comprehensive understanding of the broad healthcare landscape and related servie educational needs
- Experince in synthesising complex information and analysis, informing development of responsive solutions
- Experience of planning, developing and delivering education and training
- Experience in the development and application of technology enhanced approaches to learning
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate sensitive and complex information in a time responsive manner
* For NHS employee applicants: Secondment or SLA will be considered in the first instance
Applicants who wish to apply on a secondment basis are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current employer at the earliest opportunity.
If you are interested in this vacancy and would like further information, please refer to the job information pack below.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Fiona Fraser, Head of Programme – NMAHP - Acute – fiona.fraser@nhs.scot
Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date.
Closing date: Monday 26th June 2023
Interview date: Thursday 13 July 2023
You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment. Evidence of this must be produced upon request.
We actively encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds, regardless of gender, age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief. https://www.careers.nhs.scot/about/who-we-are/
If you have any queries regarding the application portal or the recruitment process, please contact us at: NES HR Recruitment: EoS.ERRS@nhs.scot