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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. Regular presence at the Glasgow/Edinburgh office(s) is a requirement of this role.
Work Pattern: Fixed Term / Secondment, Full Time, 37 hours per week.
Fixed-term or Secondment**
1 post x Fixed Term for 18 months
1 post x Fixed Term until 31st July 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.
The HR Trainee Services team is central to supporting a consistent employment experience for Doctors and Dentists in Training across NHS Scotland. Under the ‘lead employer’ arrangements, the team provides HR services as an Employing Board and a Placement Board (e.g Onboarding, Payroll, Salary Setting, Maternity/Paternity/Shared and Absence) and in the delivery of ‘Once for Scotland’ activities including Skilled Worker Sponsorship, PVG checking and national Trainee Recruitment & Selection.
The Opportunity
We are looking for 2 Senior Officers to join our talented and growing teams, either within HR Trainee Services or HR Business Support Operations, to support the delivery of a national recruitment and employment programme for our Doctors and Dentists in Training (DDITs) across NHS Scotland within the HR Trainee Services team and to support delivery of first class customer service for core staff across the organisation within the HR Business Support Operations team.
In this exciting and varied role as Senior Officer within HR Trainee Services, you will collaborate across multiple workstreams and organisations and have a direct impact on the HR Trainee Services team achieving and delivering their programme priorities.
Within HR Business Support Operations, the Senior Officer will cover a portfolio of directorates, with responsibility for timely and accurate payroll and contracts processing and for providing first level advice across a full range of policy areas, achieved through meticulous planning and tracking of work tasks.
Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?
Do you enjoy making a difference, influencing improved ways of working, and sharing innovative ideas?
Do you want to play a key role in delivering excellent HR support?
Working in the HR Trainees Services team or HR Business Support Operations, you will have the opportunity to bring your unique skills and experience to the table, collaborating across multiple workstreams to provide an excellent service to our staff.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Senior HR Officers offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
Ability to communicate clearly, effectively and confidently at all levels in the workplace
Ability to effectively plan workload for yourself and the team, taking into consideration deadlines and competing priorities to ensure work is completed in a timely and accurate manner
Experience of working collaboratively and flexibly within in a team, and across other workstreams and departments
Experience in an HR generalist role, delivering HR operational services and processing across a range of policy areas
Experience of maintaining comprehensive and complex programme documentation in a manner that is accessible
Experience of maintaining a consistent focus on both data quality and customer service, and inspiring team members to work confidently in this way
Highly effective communicator knowing how to make complex technical information and language simple for diverse senior internal and external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
Ability to proactively identify and communicate improvements to processes and systems
Line management and coaching/mentoring experience
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.
It’s not essential to be in an HR Senior 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 Niamh Carmody, HR Business Partner (Trainee Services)
niamh.carmody@nhs.scot & Jonnie Whitefield, HR Business Partner (Business Support Operations) jonathan.whitefield2@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 will take place on 13th & 14th November.
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.