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THIS VACANCY HAS NOW CLOSED
x2 Fixed Term/Secondment opportunities: duration 9 months
National Services Scotland is a national NHS Board operating right at the heart of NHSScotland. Through our services we provide invaluable support and advice, a role we also extend to the wider public sector. As a vital part of NHSScotland, NSS’ mission is to enable and support the delivery of better health and better care working in partnership. We do this by providing a range of specialised services that enable NHS Boards to focus their efforts on delivering health improvement and patient care.
The team
People, Solutions and Experience are a team within the Human Resources and Workforce Development Department, and we aim to provide an excellent service in all aspects of employment, from prior to commencement of employment and throughout the employment lifecycle. This includes providing a wide range of professional services such as recruitment, HR front of house, terms and conditions of service and policy and case management advice and guidance.
The vacancies
We currently have 2 fixed term / secondment opportunities, one within the Recruitment team and one within the HR Assist team.
The Recruitment Officer will provide an end to end recruitment service to NHS National Services Scotland and our shared service partner, Public Health Scotland. This will include assisting managers with vacancies, providing advice and guidance on recruitment, advertising posts, issuing offers and contracts and maintaining our people systems which include Job Train – our Recruitment portal, Service Now and e:EES.
The HR Assist Officer will provide advice and guidance on all aspects of terms and conditions of service and policies, will be the first point of contact for our customers queries and for maintaining our people systems such as e:EES, internal databases and our call management platform, Service Now.
The candidate
We are looking for individuals with excellent communication skills, written and verbal, combined with great organisational and time-management skills, to join the teams. You need the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, customer service environment and possess good decision-making skills.
A good understanding of HR practices and a professional, confident and flexible approach is essential to balance the needs of the customers with the requirement to adhere to policy and process.
You should be working towards full Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Accreditation or have an equivalent level of experience in a multi-disciplined human resources environment.
Additionally, you should have experience of HR systems and be computer literate with standard Microsoft packages.
The post’s will be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow, and on occasion travel to other NSS sites to attend meetings will be required. As per the Scottish Government advice around COVID 19 we are currently working from home.
The successful candidate must comply with the Mandatory Induction Standards and with the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Danielle Bogan on Danielle.Bogan@nhs.scot or Janet Mathie on Janet.Mathie@nhs.scot
Further information on NSS is available from: www.nss.nhs.scot
Closing date for completed applications is Friday 13th August 2021
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies
