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Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours
Duration: Fixed term/Secondment until 31 march 2024*
Flexible Location: NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, remote and hybrid working. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Salary: A4C Band 8A, 2023/24 Pay Award: £56,992 to £61,522 per annum
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 has strategic partnerships with a range of stakeholders in relation to health protection including Public Health Scotland.
What you'll do
This post will cover workforce education in relation to health protection with a particular focus on vaccination, key tasks will include but are not restricted to;
- Lead and work with service specific multi-professional groups (in particular Public Health Scotland and NHS Boards) in the ongoing development of educational content, format, and updating of learning materials in response to new evidence or external review and evaluation of courses.
- Manage and co-ordinate the defined workstream(s) within the area of expertise and within a project management structure. Workstream(s) managed may be national priorities and/or in sensitive policy areas.
- Lead and manage the development of any future resources and additional training provision as required.
- Develop and maintain effective links with key stakeholders in order to support wider NES activity.
- Provide professional leadership to the workstream(s) and ensure that the project plan is fully integrated with stakeholders and the public.
What you'll bring
These will include but are not restricted to;
- Experience of working in an educationally or knowledge management focused environment, including experience of planning and delivering education and training
- Demonstrable leadership skills including experience of successfully managing staff and teams
- Experience /understanding of the external political and social environment, including NHS policy issues and priorities, and the wider agenda of public policy impacting on other relevant agencies
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to work autonomously to agreed objectives and timescales
* For NHS employee applicants: Secondment or SLA will be considered in the first instance
*Applicants who wish to apply on a secondment basis are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current employer at the earliest opportunity.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Ruth Robertson, ruth.robertson2@phs.scot
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.
Closing date: 20/04/23
Interview date: via MS Teams, week beginning 1st May 2023
You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment. Evidence of this must be produced upon request.
We actively encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds, regardless of gender, age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief. https://www.careers.nhs.scot/about/who-we-are/
If you have any queries regarding the application portal or the recruitment process, please contact us at: NES HR Recruitment: EoS.ERRS@nhs.scot