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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**, Full Time, 37 hours per week
Fixed term or Secondment** until 31 March 2025
**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 Workforce 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 Centre for Workforce Supply Social Care Team (CWS) is a fast paced and dynamic team, within the Workforce Directorate. Commissioned by the Scottish Government in 2023, our goal is to support the wider adult social care sector in embedding ethical and sustainable, person-centred international recruitment practices to support growth of the adult social care workforce in Scotland. Our work is aligned to the National Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care.
Our main areas of work include:
- Building a national infrastructure to support adult social care providers of all types in understanding and implementing international recruitment
- Building relationships with strategically important and influential stakeholders
- Producing high quality resources for the team’s TURAS site
This role is an opportunity to get involved in some of the most critical conversations taking place across the NHS and social care – ensuring we have the workforce we need to deliver care both now and into the future.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to join our small, talented team to support the delivery of our universal support offer.
You will be working closely with the Senior Specialist Lead across all aspects of the project. As Project Officer, you will develop, coordinate and input into the delivery of project plans, risk registers, issue logs and outputs.
You will provide much needed project coordination, ensuring high quality, engaging outputs are delivered on time.
Do you want to play a part in tackling intractable workforce problems within adult social care?
Do you enjoy working at pace in a high profile, dynamic environment?
Do you have a passion for project management and stakeholder engagement?
Do you enjoy problem solving and collaborating with others?
Working in the CWS social care team you will have the opportunity to bring your unique project and stakeholder engagement skills and experience to the table, collaborating across organisations to support the adult social care sector in Scotland undertake international recruitment.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Project Officers offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Be highly organised, proactive and experienced in leading and providing project support (ideally in health or social care)
- Highly effective communicator knowing how to make complex information and language simple for diverse senior internal and external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
- Ability to work on own initiative, to effectively organise and prioritise own workloads and that of others, and to meet strict deadlines
- Proven stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to act with tact and diplomacy in politically sensitive environments
- Experience in writing communications for external audiences
- Experience in providing meeting support such as scheduling and note taking
- A meticulous eye for detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work
- Experience in maintaining key programme documentation including project plans
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 a Project 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 Katherine Stevenson, Head of Programme, Katherine.stevenson2@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.
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/exercise) will take place on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 September 2024. The presentation/exercise topic will be sent to the candidates invited to interview.
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.
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