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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: 1 x Permanent post, Full Time, 37 hours per week
1 x Fixed Term or Secondment post until 31st July,** Full Time, 37 hours per week
**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 Workforce Directorate works at a national level to support the delivery of NES’s strategic plan and is a key partner to the delivery of Scottish Government priorities for the health and social care workforce. It also provides a comprehensive People and Organisational Development strategy and service for the people who work for NES and externally to NHSScotland in the recruitment of medical and dental trainees and other vocational trainee groups. This role sits in the HR function in the Workforce Directorate.
The HR Trainee Services team is central to supporting a consistent employment experience for Doctors and Dentists in Training across NHS Scotland. Under the ‘lead employer’ arrangements, the team provides HR services as an Employing Board and a Placement Board (E.g. Onboarding, Payroll, Salary Setting, Maternity/Paternity/Shared and Absence) and in the delivery of ‘Once for Scotland’ activities including Skilled Worker Sponsorship, PVG checking and national Trainee Recruitment & Selection.
The Opportunity
We are looking for two Senior Officers to join our talented and growing team, to support the delivery of a national recruitment and employment programme for our Doctors and Dentists in Training (DDITs) across NHS Scotland.
In this exciting and varied role as Senior Officer within HR Trainee Services, you will collaborate across multiple workstreams and organisations and have a direct impact on front-line service of the NHS in Scotland. The work of the senior officer has a key role in ensuring the HR team is achieving and delivering their programme priorities.
Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?
Do you enjoy making a difference, influencing improved ways of working, and sharing innovative ideas?
Do you want to play a key role in delivering excellent HR support?
Working within the HR Trainees Services team you will have the opportunity to bring your unique skills and experience to the table, collaborating across multiple work areas to provide an excellent service to our employees
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Senior HR Officers offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Ability to communicate clearly, effectively and confidently at all levels in the workplace
- Ability to effectively plan workload for yourself and the team, taking into consideration deadlines and competing priorities to ensure work is completed in a timely and accurate manner
- Experience of working collaboratively and flexibly within in a team, and across other workstreams and departments
- Experience in an HR generalist role, delivering HR operational services and processing across a range of policy areas
- Experience of maintaining comprehensive and complex programme documentation in a manner that is accessible
- Experience of maintaining a consistent focus on both data quality and customer service, and inspiring team members to work confidently in this way
- Highly effective communicator knowing how to make complex technical information and language simple for diverse senior internal and external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
- Ability to proactively identify and communicate improvements to processes and systems
- Line management and coaching/mentoring experience
- 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 a Senior HR Officer 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 India Bruce, HR Business Partner (Trainee Services)
Next Steps
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 24th 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