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*** COVID-19 – Please note that during this time all interviews will be conducted remotely. If successful, you will also initially be working remotely in line with the guidance from the Scottish Government***
Associate Director, Organisational Development, Leadership & Learning
Agenda for Change: Band 8D - £86, 611 to £90, 532
Full Time; 37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Flexible Base: NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, remote and hybrid working. Contractual base location will be agreed at appointment.
Want to work for an organisation with a real purpose? Look no further.
This is an outstanding opportunity to lead Organisational Development, Leadership & Learning, Education & Careers and Digital Capability teams that support the development of individual potential and organisational effectiveness across Scotland’s health and care sector.
WHO WE ARE
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is a national board with responsibility for education, training and workforce development, across the health and care sector. Having the right numbers of skilled, trained and supported staff, in the right place, at the right time and in the right roles, is essential to providing high quality services. We reach into every part of the country and are proud of our contribution to health and care.
The pandemic caused a radical change in workforce across the system. Our support to colleagues across frontline services, and our rapid adaptation into a digitally enabled environment, demonstrated our commitment to learning for impact and personal and community wellbeing.
Our challenge is to understand how the pandemic will continue to impact on our work – how and where it is delivered, the learning environment needed to support it and the skills required by c.300,000 colleagues, in more than 350 roles.
Working closely with the Scottish Government and our strategic partners, we need to play a vital role in building our future workforce and in supporting national priorities, e.g. the establishment of a National Care Service.
We must build and support employment routes into health and social care careers, supporting a dynamic, compassionate and skilled workforce. We need to also support our amazing and valued colleagues across the sector to be at their very best through providing a wide range of workforce development services.
NES also plays a critical role in digital development designed to improve the lives of the people of Scotland and our workforce across the sector.
Applying a start-up mindset, we deliver quickly, enabling continual improvement in services that will be available to millions. We benefit from opportunities to work with a wide range of partners excited by the potential of technology to improve health and social care – including health and care professionals and patients.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Deliver significant talent management and leadership initiatives across the sector for example, Project Lift – an inclusive approach to talent management targeted at supporting leadership skills development across all levels and succession to senior management roles and the Scottish Clinical Leadership Fellowship Scheme supporting doctors and dentists in training to develop key leadership skills;
Focussing on future supply chain, you will take responsibility for the NHS Scotland-wide Graduate Management Scheme and the development of career pathways to support the sector;
Respond to national employability challenges and the need to develop a young workforce, ensuring the health and care workforce of the future;
Support development of NHS Scotland’s 48,000 strong support workforce as we invest in our built environment, estate and wider infrastructure;
Play a key role within NES, and externally, in supporting the management of change, organisational effectiveness, and the delivery of strategic outcomes relating to employee engagement, inclusivity, efficiency, and workforce development;
Manage and support improvement in digital workforce capability across the health and care sector. This will include working collaboratively with partners and stakeholders across the sector;
As a senior leader within NES, reporting to the Director of Workforce, you will play a lead role in further embedding the values and culture that will enable NES to deliver its mission and strategy;
Work collaboratively with our fantastic senior management team across NES to ensure a culture that values our staff, colleagues across the sector and scottish citizens.
WHAT WE LOVE TO SEE
The Associate Director will be an outstanding relationship-builder, with a track record of delivering purpose-led, meaningful, strategic change in collaboration with multiple partners and stakeholders. The health and care sector is complex, challenging and rewarding, calling for innovative, committed and energetic team-players.
We are looking for applicants who can provide evidence of: -
Substantial experience within one or more of: organisation development, leadership and management development, talent management, education and career development; quality improvement, change management;
Successfully supporting and developing employee digital capability;
Delivering system-wide change within the health and care sector or complex system with multiple key stakeholders;
Delivering system wide change by collaborating and influencing at all levels within a complex system of stakeholders in public or private sector;
Enabling innovation and the delivery of products and services aligned to strategic objectives.
WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU?
Life-work balance - with good opportunities for flexible working and remote working
Generous NHS pension scheme
Incremental progression through the salary band (up to the maximum of the 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
If you are passionate in wanting to make a real difference to the people of Scotland and those working hard to support their health and care, and have the skills and experience outlined above, we’d be delighted to receive your application.
We actively encourage applications from a range of backgrounds, regardless of gender, age, religion, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
Closing date for applications is 23:59 hours on Friday 2nd July
Panel Interview – Monday 12th July
Please apply via Eden Scott.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Sarah Gracie: E: sarah.gracie@edenscott.com M: 07999 421314
Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date.