Education Lead

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.

Fixed Term, Part Time, 28 hours 48 minutes per week

• 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.

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.

Optometry sits within the Dental Directorate and supports the provision of General Ophthalmic Services community eyecare practices across Scotland. It supports up-skilling of eyecare practitioners, to facilitate delivery of safe, effective eyecare to the population of Scotland.

Optometry strives to provide education that:

• Is patient focused and improves patient care
• Is high quality and effective
• Optometry team members want to, and can attend

The Education Lead - Optometry is part of a high calibre team, delivering world-leading education to primarily support general ophthalmic services within Scotland. This post requires ambitious, hard-working and very experienced optometrists who have the drive to support the PSD Scotland Optometry programme across the country. The post requires flexible working, considerable travel and the requirement to attend evening and weekend events.

Do you want to deliver an optometric education programme based on national and local priority needs, ensuring liaison with other senior professionals within the healthcare team and relevant stakeholders?

Do you want to contribute specialist expertise to national and regional PSD Scotland initiatives?

Do you want to liaise with other groups and individuals employed in NHS Boards engaged in supporting postgraduate education to develop local opportunities for inter-professional learning?

Do you want to 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?

Working within the delegated management of regional budgets, ensuring that PSD Scotland Optometry meet annual and longer term agreed targets

• A registered healthcare practitioner with a postgraduate qualification e.g. MSc, independent prescribing optometrist.
• Extensive experience in a community or hospital setting
• Experience of planning, delivering and management of training programmes including undergraduate.
• 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
• A positive and enthusiastic approach to the development of community optometry in Scotland
• A willingness to travel throughout Scotland where overnight stays are required on occasion and a flexibility to support evening and weekend deliveries.
• 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

• 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

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…