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Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, remote 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 31/03/2023
*For NHS employee applicants: Secondment or SLA will be considered in the first instance.
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 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.
The Opportunity
We are looking for an Assistant Learning Technologist (Senior Analyst) to join our small, but highly talented and growing team to collaborate and problem-solve 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 develop modules to deliver learning?
Do you want to play a key role in supporting learners get the most out of their eLearning journey?
Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?
Do you enjoy problem solving?
Working within the eLearning team you will have the opportunity to support learners access and use learning resources and educators within NES to deliver quality learning experiences for health and care professionals.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Assistant Learning Technologists offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- A clear understanding of managing queries submitted to help desks
- Ability to confidently lead and facilitate conversations to find solutions to present learning that supports learners achieve the desired outcomes
- Highly experienced in information management field
- Ability to collaboratively work with different teams to achieve solutions to their eLearning needs
- Proven experience as a problem solver
- 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 work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise workload and 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 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 Assistant Learning Technologist role right now. You may be returning from a career break (e.g. maternity, paternity, caring for others) or returning to eLearning 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 vicky.anderson2@nhs.scot
Next Steps
*NHS applicants who wish to apply on a secondment basis are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current employer at the earliest opportunity.
Our recruitment process is currently 100% remote and if successful you would initially work remotely, only working from our offices once official guidance supports this.
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
Online interviews will take place on 26th April 2022.
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.