Education Lead Job at Tan Office, England, United Kingdom Full Time NEW

As part of this transformation, NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) have joined to form a new organisation: Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland). This new organisation will play a pivotal role in supporting the renewal and ensuring the long-term sustainability of health and care services across Scotland.

Flexible Location: PSD Scotland is a remote-friendly employer with staff based throughout Scotland. We support office-based and hybrid working arrangements. We welcome conversations about alternative working patterns—please get in touch during the application process to discuss.

Work Pattern: Fixed Term, Full Time, 36 hours per week

Fixed-term or Secondment** until 31st March 2027

• For NHS applicants, an NHS secondment will be offered in the first instance. For non-NHS applicants, a fixed-term or secondment would be considered.

You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.

Who We Are

PSD Scotland unites expertise from NES and NSS in a way that will allow us to accelerate national programmes to support the NHS to deliver better care, now and in the future.

We support staff with education and training, provide the tools and data that improve services, and run vital national functions such as procurement, logistics and blood, tissue and cell services.

The core function of the Nursing and Midwifery and Allied Health Professions (NMHAP) Directorate is to support the education, training and continuing professional development of nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health and social care chaplains and healthcare support workers. The Directorate is also responsible for providing education, training and workforce development across wider professional groups and disciplines, often in partnership with other agencies, to support key policy imperatives.

The NMAHP practice education and preregistration programme, within the NMAHP Directorate supports key workstreams including Careers & Recruitment, Performance Enhancement, Health & Wellbeing, Practice-based Learning (capacity, capability, quality, governance), and Workforce Development. The team collaborates with partners from health and social care, Higher Education Institutions, the Scottish Government, and other organisations to meet PSDS targets and strategic policies effectively.

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, fast paced and innovative NMAHP Practice Education Preregistration team delivering a complex, multifaceted programme of work to increase capacity, build capability and enhance the quality of the learning environment and experiences for the next generation of NMAHP practitioners.

Your focus will be to lead, coordinate and embed national arrangements for AHP student indexing across Scotland. Building on learning from the AHP Indexing Feasibility Pilot and support the transition from pilot activity to sustainable, business‑as‑usual indexing arrangements. The role will support national leadership for AHP student indexing, working in close partnership with Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), PSDS digital and data colleagues, and wider stakeholders.

Do you have Experience of working with student data, workforce data or digital systems

• Do you have proven experience of project management and leading change?
• Do you have good communication skills and know how to make complex information and language simple for a diverse range of stakeholders
• Do you have experience in Facilitating stakeholder engagement to promote shared understanding and consistent implementation
• Do you have experience in improvement activity linked to data quality, efficiency and sustainability

Working within the NMAHP Practice Education and Preregistration team you will have the opportunity to implement real change within the NHS Scotland workforce, making a difference to people’s every day working lives

Does this sound like you?

What We Love To See

NMAHP Education Leads offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:

• Highly effective communicator knowing how to make complex information and language simple for a diverse range of stakeholders

Proven experience of project management and leading change

• Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
• Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workloads, 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 hybrid 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 means considering the diverse needs, perspectives, and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland. We are focused on hiring the very best talent and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. Our aim to ensure that everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has a positive recruitment experience—regardless of the outcome.

We welcome applications from all under-represented groups, including racially minoritised people and disabled people. It is not essential to be in Education lead role right now—you may be returning from a career break (e.g., maternity, paternity, caring) or coming from another field. Your experiences can bring a fresh perspective to our work.

If you are considering applying and would like to discuss the opportunity, any adjustments or alternative work patterns, please contact irene.mcdade@nhs.scot.

Next Steps

• NHS candidates will be considered firstly on a secondment basis, and so are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current NHS employer at the earliest opportunity, ideally prior to application.

All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.

In person OR online interviews (including a presentation will take place on Tuesday 14th of July 2026. The presentation topic will be sent to candidates selected for interview.

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. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

• Please be advised that if you are successful in being offered the role following the recruitment process, you will be expected to attend the office prior to your start date to complete face-to-face pre-employment checks. If you require any adjustments to support this, please let us know.
• To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here. 

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

If you have any queries regarding the NHS Scotland National Recruitment Portal or the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to contact our recruitment partners, the East Region Recruitment Service, at: EoS.ERRS@nhs.scot