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Hours: 30 hours per week (Part time)
Duration: Permanent
Flexible Location: NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, remote and hybrid working (within the UK). We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Who We Are
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is an education and training body and a special health board within NHS Scotland, with responsibility of developing and delivering education and training for the healthcare workforce in Scotland. NES Optometry primarily supports the provision of General Ophthalmic Services in Scotland.
What You'll Do
The Education Lead - Optometry is part of a high caliber team, delivering world-leading education to primarily support general ophthalmic services within Scotland. The post is part of a high caliber team, delivering world-leading education to primarily support general ophthalmic services within Scotland. This post requires ambitious, hard-working and very experienced optometrists, or related healthcare professionals, who have the drive to support the NES Optometry programme across the country. The post requires flexible working, travel and the requirement to attend evening and weekend events.
Key Tasks will include but will not be limited to
Deliver a local optometry education programme based on national and local priority needs, ensuring liaison with other senior professionals within the healthcare team and relevant stakeholders.
Provide professional advice and support around specialist area of initial education and training of optometrists in Scotland
Liaise with other groups and individuals employed in NHS Boards engaged in supporting postgraduate education to develop local opportunities for inter-professional learning.
Provide professional leadership, advice, education and support to colleagues, devising key activities in specialist area. This may be at local, national or UK wide level.
Delegated management of regional budgets, ensuring that NES Optometry meet annual and longer term agreed targets.
Develop and maintain effective links with key stakeholders in order to support wider NES activity
What You'll Bring
This will include but are not restricted to:
A registered optometrist with a postgraduate optometry qualification e.g., MSc, independent prescribing optometrist
Extensive experience in a community or hospital setting
Experience of planning, delivering and management of training programmes
Experience with assessing or examining trainee optometrists
Highly developed professional communication skills and experience of facilitation, consultation and negotiation with a wide range of stakeholders including at a high level of seniority
Very experienced and knowledgeable in carrying out Optometric Procedures
A positive and enthusiastic approach to the development of community optometry in Scotland
Informal enquiries may be directed to Lesley.rousselet@nhs.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: 2 August 2023
Interview date: 23rd August 2023 (via MS Teams)
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