Work Pattern: Fixed Term, Part Time, 18.5 hours per week
Fixed-term or Secondment** until 31st August 2026
**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
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 Opportunity
Do you enjoy helping others build confidence and develop skills through responsive and trauma informed learning?
Do you thrive bringing people together to share learning and strengthen practice in family nursing?
Do you enjoy collaborating with stakeholders to co-develop innovative solutions?
Do you value opportunities to shape national approaches that directly impact FNP practice across Scotland?
Working within the FNP education team within the Women, Children, Young People and Families team means you’ll join a supportive, collaborative environment where you’ll be encouraged to share your expertise, develop new skills and grow as a professional.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Practice Educators offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
1. Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
2. A minimum of 3 years’ experience of working in Family Nurse Partnership
3. Comprehensive knowledge of the FNP programme
4. Experience of facilitating learning and supporting FNP education
5. Proven experience of collaborative working with partners across health, social work, police, education and other agencies.
6. Evidence of maintaining own clinical practice through CPD in line with Core Model element 9
7. 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:
8. Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and hybrid working
9. Generous NHS pension scheme
10. Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
11. Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday
12. 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.
It’s not essential to be in a Practice 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.
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 short presentation) will take place on 6th January 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.
13. 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 . 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 .
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.