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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Head of Learning, Development & Staff Experience
Band 8b (£70,986 to £75,937 per annum)
Location: Office Based at University Hospital Crosshouse and requirement for travel within Board area
Full time, permanent
We have an exciting opportunity for a new Head of Learning, Development & Staff Experience. This is a broad and varied role providing leadership to our Learning, Organisational Development and Staff Experience function, which provides a key role in ensuring we have a motivated, skilled, valued and engaged workforce, committed to delivering the healthiest life possible for everyone in Ayrshire and Arran.
We are looking for an individual with significant and demonstrable experience in organisational development, culture change and learning and development who is passionate about ongoing transformation through collaboration and innovation, including digital learning. NHS Ayrshire & Arran has commenced a programme of culture reform and the postholder will play a significant role in driving this agenda forward organisationally and in embedding our core organisational values of safe, caring and respectful.
The postholder will have a lead role in setting the strategic direction for developing our culture and ensuring that our underpinning learning and development approaches are geared to achieving this and reflective and compliant with wider NHSScotland policy and practice. The postholder will routinely work with wider networks of colleagues in local forums, such as the Area Partnership Forum and Staff Governance Committee, as well as collaboratively with Heads of Service from other Boards both regionally and nationally.
To succeed in this role, you should be educated to Masters level in a relevant discipline, or equivalent, and have professional membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) coupled with significant operational experience of working in the learning and development field. You will have excellent communication skills and a proven ability to work with a range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
If you want to find out more about the role, please contact Kirsty Symington, Executive Assistant to HR Director, to schedule a conversation with Sarah Leslie, HR Director via kirsty.symington@aapct.scot.nhs.uk
Interviews will take place during June 2025 and shortlisted candidates will be asked to participate in a psychometric assessment prior to interview.
To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found within the attached Candidate Information Pack.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form. The Recruitment Team are unable to answer individual queries at application stage about this, please visit here for further information.
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