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On 1 April 2026, NSS and NES became one national organisation, focused on continuity today and a stronger, more connected service for tomorrow.
As part of this transformation, NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) have joined to form a new organisation: Public Services Delivery Scotland. This new organisation will play a pivotal role in supporting the renewal and ensuring the long-term sustainability of health and care services across Scotland.
Flexible Location: Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland) is a remote-friendly employer with staff based throughout Scotland. We support office-based and hybrid working arrangements. We welcome conversations about alternative working patterns—please get in touch during the application process to discuss.
Work Pattern: Fixed Term, Part Time, 0.5WTE 18 hours per week
Fixed-term or Secondment** 31st March 2028 in the first instance
**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
PSD Scotland unites expertise from NES and NSS in a way that will allow us to accelerate national programmes to support the NHS to deliver better care, now and in the future.
We support staff with education and training, provide the tools and data that improve services, and run vital national functions such as procurement, logistics and blood, tissue and cell services.
Psychology are responsible for training Psychologists for NHS Scotland and delivering education and training in psychological care to the multi-professional workforce across Scotland.
We work in partnership with Scottish Government and other key stakeholders to increase the capacity within the current workforce to deliver evidence based psychological interventions.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to join our multi-disciplinary team, delivering a broad programme of work to support the CAMHS multi-disciplinary workforce in NHS Scotland.
Working with colleagues, you would contribute to the development, delivery, evaluation, and review of the national training programmes, such as Essential CAMHS, the 1-year development plan for clinicians new to CAMHS and Psychological Therapy training, such as Family Based Treatment (FBT). By liaising with key nursing leads, and CAMHS learning co-ordinators, you would ensure that the training needs of CAMHS clinicians, including nurses are well understood, and shape the development and delivery of training. You would also articulate the best practice inpatient and outpatient CAMHS nursing care.
Do you have a passion for the role of nurses within multidisciplinary CAMHS teams?
Do you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders across Scotland?
Do you have a passion for clinical education, and the development of the workforce?
Do you want to make a difference to the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people in Scotland?
Do you want to play a key role in delivering high-quality education and training to the multisicplinary health and social care workforce?
Working within the CAMHS team you will have the opportunity to use your knowledge and experience of working as a CAMHS nurse to support the CAMHS workforce to deliver real change for the lives of children and young people in Scotland.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Specialist Educators need to offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Significant clinical experience working as a nurse within CAMHS services
- Understanding of the current issues within the field of child and adolescent mental health.
- Experience and passion in developing the skills and competencies of staff
- Experience of supervision of nursing practice
- Experience of delivering training in CAMHS assessments and interventions such as physical health monitoring or psychological interventions
- Ability to interpret policy and guidance and use it to shape education and training.
- Excellent communication skills including report writing skills, and the ability to engage and inspire learners
- Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
- Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workloads, to meet strict deadlines
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 means considering the diverse needs, perspectives, and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland. We are focused on hiring the very best talent and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. Our aim to ensure that everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has a positive recruitment experience—regardless of the outcome.
We welcome applications from all under-represented groups, including racially minoritised people and disabled people. It is not essential to be in Specialist Educator role right now—you may be returning from a career break (e.g., maternity, paternity, caring) or coming from another field. Your experiences can bring a fresh perspective to our work.
If you are considering applying and would like to discuss the opportunity, any adjustments or alternative work patterns, please contact Dr Fiona Calder, Head of Programme, Fiona.Calder@nhs.scot; Dr Helen Bradford, Head of Programme, Helen.Bradford@nhs.scot; or Maria Dale, Principal Educator, Maria.Dale@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.
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
In person interviews (including a short presentation) will take place on 11th May 2026. The presentation topic will be sent to candidates selected for 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.
- Please be advised that if you are successful in being offered the role following the recruitment process, you will be expected to attend the office prior to your start date to complete face-to-face pre-employment checks. If you require any adjustments to support this, please let us know.
- 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.
As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here.
For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.
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.
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