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Programme Advisor x 2 (Ref: 183727)
Healthcare Staffing Programme (HSP)
£46,244 - £53,789 (Band 7)
Full time (37 hours per week)
Fixed-term contract/secondment to March 2025
Edinburgh or Glasgow – with hybrid working applying for the foreseeable future
A fantastic opportunity exists for enthusiastic, self-motivated and positive individuals to be part of the delivery of an innovate programme to support the work of the Nursing and Systems Improvement (NSI) Directorate within Healthcare Improvement Scotland.
This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in a national programme to deliver the Health & Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019; ensuring that at all times, suitably qualified and competent individuals from such a range of professional disciplines as necessary, are working in such numbers as are appropriate for the health, wellbeing and safety of patients or service users, and the provision of high-quality health care for individuals across Scotland.
You will provide education, training advice and support to the multi-professional clinical teams, senior professional leaders and managers across all NHS Boards to ensure there is a common understanding of the requirements of the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019. In addition, you will be involved in the development of Staffing Level Tools and monitoring of Boards compliance with the Act.
You will be a registered healthcare professional with extensive knowledge and experience of healthcare staffing and assuring the quality of care in a leadership/management role within the NHS. Educated to degree level or equivalent experience, you will have specialist knowledge of nursing and midwifery workload and workforce planning tools and methodology and associated integration with wider workforce planning.
Frequent travel throughout Scotland is also required for this role (including overnight stays).
For informal enquiries please contact Lynne Riach, Senior Programme Advisor, at lynne.riach@nhs.scot.
Closing Date: Sunday 26 May 2024 at midnight
It is anticipated that interviews will be held via MS Teams on Thursday 13 June 2024.