Digital Enablement Trainer – Primary Care

Job Description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has become available within the Digital Enablement Primary Care Team to support the roll out of GP IT Reprovisioning work to our GP Practices within NHS Fife. We are looking for enthusiastic, engaging individuals who have a great ability to convey information in a supportive manner and a keen interest in supporting others to learn.

The post is an 18 month contract (secondments will be considered).

Role

Digital Enablement Trainer will focus on delivering training and supporting GP Practice staff through the changes ahead with GP IT digital systems. The post holder will play an important part in ensuring staff can confidently use systems to carry out their role and improve services for patients.

Organisation context

NHS Fife is ambitious in developing its strategies and frameworks to support organisational change and modernise service delivery through digital for the benefit of staff, patients, carers and the public. This post will act as an exemplary advocate of this agenda.

Locations and hours

You must be able to travel throughout Fife and across Scotland as required, and you should be able to flex working hours to meet the needs of training delivery.

Applicant information

If you enjoy supporting staff through a system change and assisting with key benefits to our end users and patients, we would love to hear from you.

Contact for informal enquiries

Informal Enquiries: Gillian Notman

Right to work and equality

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

Right to work in the UK

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 Visas and Immigration 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 here.

Sponsorship and eligibility

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. This is possible only if the employer is a licensed Sponsor and if the post meets minimum salary requirements. Further information on these criteria can be found here. 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.

Ethics and originality

AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be helpful for planning and preparing your application, but your answers must be your own. Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements.

Secondment policy

Fixed Term/Secondment Opportunity – Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found here Hub • Blink (). If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have in place a secondment agreement from their existing board to apply for this post.

Equality and diversity

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.