Educator (Dental)

Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office and hybrid working. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.

Work Pattern: Permanent, Part Time, 33 hours 20 minutes hours per week.

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

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.

The Dental Directorate is responsible for the delivery of high-quality education and training across a diverse range of training programmes, including the management, funding and provision of postgraduate education for dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs).

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, innovative and established team to deliver training and education for oral improvement programmes to assist workforce development.

Reporting to the Specialist Lead, you will be responsible for the delivery of training programmes to a range of health, social care and educational staff. This will include participating in the quality assurance and educational governance of these programmes which will be delivered on-line and in person.

Do you want to play a key role in enhancing the learning and development experiences of the health, social care and early education workforce across Scotland?

Do you enjoy engaging learners into conversations around putting new learned knowledge into practice?

Do you enjoy collaborating with others to develop innovative programmes of learning?

Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive in an ever-changing environment?

Do you enjoy working with stakeholders to co-develop innovative solutions?

Working within the Oral Health Improvement, Dental Workforce Development team you will have the opportunity to bring skills and experience to a dynamic and innovative team.

Does this sound like you?

What We Love to See

Educators (Dental) offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:

1. A registered Dental Care professional.
2. Experience within an education, teaching or facilitation role with a knowledge of health issues in the community.
3. Experience in developing and facilitating engaging education to a range of NHS and Social Care staff and have a proactive approach to continuous learning and development.
4. Understanding of relevant national policies and evidence-based guidance in relation to oral health improvement.
5. Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary.
6. 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:

1. Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and hybrid working.
2. Generous NHS pension scheme.
3. Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review.
4. Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday.
5. 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 Educator role right now. You may be returning from a career break (e.g. maternity, paternity, caring for others) or returning 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 Roseann Gorman, Specialist Lead, Roseann.Gorman@nhs.scot.

Next Steps

Our recruitment process is currently 100% remote and if successful you would initially work remotely, working from our offices as operationally required.

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

Online interviews (including a presentation) will take place on 7 April 2025. 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.

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.