Senior Educator - Interprofessional Learning

Hours: Part Time, 15 hours per week.  (Job share applications for a 0.2WTE (7.5 hours) basis would be considered

Duration: Fixed term/Secondment until end March 2025*

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 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 NHS Scotland Academy is an exciting partnership between NHS Golden Jubilee and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) to offer accelerated training for a wide range of health and social care roles and professions. The Academy will provide an opportunity for staff to improve their skills in specific areas, using residential, distance and virtual reality learning. It will offer attractive training programmes linked to recruitment and career progression. 

The Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network (CSMEN) is based within the Medical Directorate, has a multi-professional outlook and collaborates with other NES directorates including Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions (NMAHP), Pharmacy, and the NHS Scotland Academy.

CSMEN educators are critical to the development of simulation and interprofessional education within our workforce development across NHS Scotland Academy programme portfolios. They will contribute to mapping and development of simulation networks across regions and professional groups.

What you'll do 

Key tasks will include but are not restricted to;

• Support the Head of Programmes (Education) to deliver objectives in the CSMEN programme portfolio for the NHS Scotland Academy (NHSSA)
• Manage, co-ordinate and support colleagues, within their area of simulation and interprofessional practice across NHS Scotland, in developing the delivery of education within the context of the NHSSA.
• Liaison with key stakeholders regarding national service needs, with synthesis and analysis of needs and potential solutions. Maintain and enhance national links with key stakeholders across disciplines, informing service and inter-professional educational development in a ‘Once for Scotland' approach.
• Developing briefing documents, background papers, reports, and other materials as appropriate for stakeholder groups such as Steering Groups and Scottish Government Health Department

• Support the Head of Programmes (Education) in managing the development of any future additional training provision, responsible for the educational implementation and delivery of training as well as the impact assessment

• Work with the Associate Postgraduate Dean for Clinical Skills and Simulation aid in the implementation of the NES CSMEN five-year national skills and simulation strategy with a focus on NHSSA priority educational needs
• Provide a clear sense of purpose and strategic direction in relation to simulation-based training for a multi-professional workforce delivering health and social care for regional collaboratives.
• Influence and shape the clinical skills and simulation-based education agenda on a regional and, on occasion, national and UK basis.

What you'll bring

These will include but are not restricted to;

• Experience of planning, developing and delivering education and training in a simulation-based educational setting 
• Professional registration, with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical 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 your specialist area and experience of working within a multidisciplinary environment. 
• 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.

Informal enquiries may be directed to: Dr Lynn Welsh, Principal Educator, National Workforce Programmes lynn.welsh3@nhs.scot 07500994347

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.

Closing date: 6^th September 2023

Interview date: 5^th October 2023 via MS Teams

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