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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, 37.5 hours per week.
Fixed-term or Secondment** until 31st March 2024
**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.
NES Technology Service (NTS) has created a strategic programme for the transformation of digital based services to allow NES to become a leading digital organisation in Scottish Health, digital by default and fully aligned with the Scottish Government’s technology strategies.
Our Technology
We are in the business of providing safe, secure and innovative technology products and services that aim to improve outcomes across education, training, workforce, health and care in the public sector in Scotland. Using modern cloud-based technology we deliver sustainable products and services for the future.
The Opportunity
The Knowledge Management and Discovery (KMD) Business Unit manages access to resources to inform practice and learning for the health and social care workforce.
The Unit supports both the management and use of the resources hosted on The Knowledge Network , a national digital library and Turas Learn, a learning management system for NES and other organisations.
We are looking for an eLearning Technologist (Analyst Business Partner) to join our small, but highly skilled, team and to collaborate with us as we navigate the complex challenges related to the provision of eLearning resources in health and social care.
Do you want to improve the experience of eLearning by supporting NES educators to develop modules to deliver learning, all the while promoting best practice and compliance with current standards?
Do you enjoy the challenge of working with subject specialists and translating their content into learning resources?
Do you want to play a key role in future proofing delivery of eLearning?
Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?
Working within the eLearning team you will have the opportunity to create, adapt and influence eLearning that will directly impact on and assist the development of Scotland’s health and social care professionals.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Those working across the KMD teams have a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Proven experience as a problem solver
- A clear understanding of instructional design
- Ability to confidently lead and facilitate conversations with a range of stakeholders about the creation of eLearning
- Highly experienced in creating eLearning using a range of authoring tools
- Highly effective communicator knowing how to make complex technical information and language simple for diverse internal and external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
- Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise workload and to meet strict deadlines
- Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
- Ability to confidently lead and motivate teams
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 eLearning role right now. You may be returning from a career break (e.g. maternity, paternity, caring for others) or returning to 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 Gayle Baxter, gayle.baxter2@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 presentation) will take place on 13th November 2023. 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, CV’s will not be accepted