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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, Part Time, 18.5 hours per week
Fixed-term or Secondment** until 31st August 2026 (18 months)
**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 Medical Appraisal team works at a national level with key stakeholders to deliver NES’ programme of Medical Appraiser training, supporting new and existing appraiser workforce across Scotland. As part of Scottish Government’s vision of a common pathway approach to appraisal and revalidation, we are also responsible for the maintenance and user support of the national IT system called SOAR (Scottish Online Appraisal Resource). For more information, please visit our website: https://appraisal.nes.scot.nhs.uk
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established, dynamic and innovative team, delivering a programme of work to support the medical appraiser workforce across NHS Scotland.
Reporting to one of the team’s Senior Officers, your key responsibilities will be focussed on the successful delivery of our Medical Appraiser training events (all online training by default) and the supporting of SOAR users via our helpdesk. You will also be expected to support and aid the team’s various projects, all of which with the goal of ensuring all doctors have the same access to renew their licence to practice.
Do you enjoy making a difference to the everyday lives of your NHS workforce?
Do you enjoy learning about different systems and ways of working?
Do you enjoy collaborating with partners to support training events?
Working within the Medical Appraisal team, you will have the opportunity to work with different stakeholders and partners to deliver quality training and making a real difference to supporting doctors working in Scotland.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
We would expect our Admin Officer to offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
Experience of running online events (training courses, webinars, conferences etc)
Experience of user support (either informally via emails or formally via helpdesk systems)
Efficient with Microsoft packages and online tools
Excellent written and communication skills
Experience in working across complex health environments with multiple stakeholders
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 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 administrative 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 our Training Manager, William Liu (william.liu@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 will take place on Monday 10th & Tuesday 11th February 2025.
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.
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