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The Opportunity

We are looking for someone who can work in a fast-paced innovative team, where the impact and reputation of our work truly matters.

As this is a six month contract, the KIND Learning Lead will be expected to step into the role with confidence and immediately apply their expertise.

We’re looking for someone who

• has experience teaching or training adults
• is keen to work in an online learning environment, building a community where learners at all levels are encouraged and made to feel welcome
• has professional experience of working with knowledge, information, and/or data, and can translate that expertise to effectively deliver and design training
• has exceptional digital skills, and continuously and autonomously develops their technical abilities
• loves collaboration, and is looking to share their expertise

Does this sound like you?

Why This Role Matters

Joining the DEW team means stepping into an agile, nationally recognised programme where the impact and reputation of our work truly matters. As the accountable delivery partner for Scottish Government and COSLA, we shape the digital, data, and digital leadership capabilities that will enable the digital future of Scotland’s health and social care workforce. This role is a critical part of the successful delivery of the programme.

Success in this role depends on

What You’ll Be Doing

• delivering training across a range of technical-and and skill-areas. You can see our current training offer at https://nes-dew.github.io/KIND-training, including our currently-scheduled training sessions
• these sessions are live-on-Teams, with between 10 and 200 attendees
• you’ll cover the core material in an engaging way, answer questions, and (above all) strive to make the training environment a friendly and inclusive one where learners at all levels can build their skills and develop their confidence
• shape the social aspects of the KIND network, primarily via the Teams channel
• you’ll start and facilitate conversations
• you’ll plan and deliver social learning events
• designing new training, and revising existing training
• our training offer is based on discussions in the network. You’ll be an opportunist, inferring where new (or modified) training might be useful to network members
• that will often involve balancing competing priorities to produce the most effective overall training offer

What You’ll Bring

We’re looking for a dynamic and personable educator, who can:

• effectively translate their relevant professional experience in knowledge, information, or data to provide engaging training adapted for health, social care, and housing staff
• adapt their expertise to provide effective training across a wide range of platforms. We train across M365 tools (Excel at all levels, Power Query, Power Automate, Power BI), general-purpose analytical languages such as R/Python, and SQL. See the KIND training pages for full details of our current training offer.
• project an engaging and inclusive presence on Teams as the face of the network to build a thriving community of KIND learners at all levels across the health, social care, and housing sectors
• demonstrate or develop appropriate production skills for our training resources. Those are produced using R/Quarto and Git/GitHub, so previous coding and version-control experience would be advantageous, but non-essential
• show their willingness to learn new tools and techniques as required by the role
• demonstrate strong time-management skills which will be essential to managing a complex calendar with competing demands for time and resource
• clearly demonstrate excellent written and spoken communication skills, with the ability to effectively adapt to different audiences as required by the role

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 remote 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