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Less than full time: WTE 0.4, 6 months in the first instance
Fixed term/Secondment for 6 months
SLA or secondment only for NHS staff in the first instance*
Flexible Location: NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, remote and hybrid working. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Who We Are
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is an education and training body and a special health board within NHS Scotland, with responsibility of developing and delivering education and training for the healthcare workforce in Scotland. NES Optometry primarily supports the provision of General Ophthalmic Services in Scotland.
What You'll Do
The Specialist Lead – Pre-registration Optometry will support the design and development of a new programme of initial education and training for optometrists in Scotland. The post is part of a high caliber team, delivering world-leading education to primarily support general ophthalmic services within Scotland. This post requires ambitious, hard-working and very experienced optometrists who have the drive to support the NES Optometry programme across the country. The post requires flexible working.
Key Tasks will include but will not be limited to:
- Support colleagues within their area of expertise and across NHS Scotland in the design and development of a novel national clinical experience programme for optometrists in Scotland in line with the new GOC requirements
- Provide professional advice and support around specialist area of initial education and training of optometrists in Scotland
- Analyse training and education needs of newly qualified optometrists both in the UK and further afield
- Develop and maintain effective links with key stakeholders in order to support wider NES activity
What You'll Bring
This will include but are not restricted to:
- A registered optometrist with a postgraduate optometry qualification e.g., MSc, independent prescribing optometrist
- Extensive experience in a community or hospital setting
- Experience of planning, delivering and management of training programmes
- Experience with assessing or examining trainee optometrists
- Highly developed professional communication skills and experience of facilitation, consultation and negotiation with a wide range of stakeholders including at a high level of seniority
- Very experienced and knowledgeable in carrying out Optometric Procedures
- A positive and enthusiastic approach to the development of community optometry in Scotland
For an informal discussion please contact Louise Madden, Principal Lead – Pre-registration Optometry, at louise.madden@nhs.scot in the first instance.
Applicants who wish to apply on a secondment basis are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current employer at the earliest opportunity.
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.
Closing date: 5th May 2022
Interview date: 25 May 2022, to be held via Microsoft Teams.
We actively encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds, regardless of gender, age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief. https://www.careers.nhs.scot/about/who-we-are/
If you have any queries regarding the application portal or the recruitment process, please contact us at: NES HR Recruitment: recruitment.hr@nes.scot.nhs.uk