Base Location; NHS Forth Valley
Hours: Part Time, 0.5 PA per week, 2 hour per week
Duration: Fixed Term until Mar 2029**
The SAS Education Adviser will assume a key leadership role at local level, in conjunction with their local Director of Medical Education (DME), and will aim to support all substantive SAS grades employed in their territorial health board to achieve their professional development aims.
NES is seeking to appoint an innovative and enthusiastic individual to work as a local SAS Education Adviser, as part of a national managed educational network, who will:
1. Facilitate SAS doctors and dentists to align their training needs to service development and improvement
2. Support SAS doctors to collect supportive evidence in their portfolio/PDP for appraisal, revalidation and/or Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) purposes
3. Raise the profile of training and development opportunities for SAS Doctors and Dentists
4. Participate in Quality Management
5. Participate in the national managed educational network of Education Advisers
The successful candidate will be a qualified doctor or dentist and will already hold a substantive post at SAS grade. The programmed activity allocation is based on the headcount number of SAS doctors and dentists working in the NHS Forth Valley Health Board.
Applicants can apply to undertake the role in addition to existing PAs, or if the role is to replace existing PAs, the candidate must have the approval by the time of interview from their Clinical Director. While there will need to be flexibility in terms of when the PAs are worked, it is expected that this work should be predominantly carried out within office hours, between Monday and Friday.
The appointment process will be the responsibility of NES Medical Directorate. The management of the SAS Education Adviser will be the responsibility of the SAS Associate Postgraduate Dean.
The post will be on a fixed term basis for approximately 3 years, until 31st March 2029 in the first instance.
** For NHS employees considering this post, please note that appointments will only be considered on a secondment or SLA basis, in the first instance
Applicants who wish to apply on a secondment basis are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current employer at the earliest opportunity.