Advert opening date: 11/10/2022
Advert closing date: 24/10/2022
Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office, remote and hybrid working. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Work Pattern: Permanent, Full Time, 37.5 hours per week.
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.
NES Technology Service has created a strategic programme for the transformation of digital based services to allow NES to become a leading digital organisation in Scottish Health, digital by default and fully aligned with the Scottish Government’s technology strategies.
Our Technology
We are in the business of providing safe, secure and innovative technology products and services that aim to improve outcomes across education, training, workforce, health and care in the public sector in Scotland.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Product Manager to join our small, but highly talented and growing team to collaborate and problem-solve some of the most complex challenges in health and social care.
You will work within an agile product delivery team. This team is made up of software engineers and product management, with supporting colleagues from disciplines such as delivery, design, clinical, information governance and security regularly lending their skills.
The product is called Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment, or ReSPECT for short, and is built on top of the National Digital Platform. It’s a digital anticipatory care plan that is rolling out to multiple regional health boards and is having profound impact on patient experience.
Do you want to take an active role in the development of applications to improve the safety and wellbeing of staff and patients in the clinical environment?
Do you enjoy collaborating and problem solving with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure you are delivering maximum value?
Do you want to play an important role in delivering the Digital Health and Care Strategy for Scotland?
Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Product Managers offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Experience implementing a product strategy and roadmaps for medium to long term delivery and implementation
- A clear understanding of Agile development methodologies
- Ability to facilitate negotiations with a wide range of individuals within educational and NHS institutions, Scottish Government, Social Care and beyond, to ensure the delivery of initiatives at the highest possible standards and in line with NES and Scottish Government aims
- Effective communicator knowing how to make complex technical information and language simple for diverse internal and external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
- Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise workload and to meet strict deadlines
- Ability to collaborate on the design, development and management of future focused national business critical information systems, platforms, applications, integrations and services developed by NES, and used across NES and the health and care landscape, through highly scalable cloud based applications and technologies
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
Do you want to play an important role in delivering the Digital Health and Care Strategy for Scotland?
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