NHS Scotland Management Training Scheme – 3 Year General and Financial Schemes

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.

3 Year General and Financial Management Training Schemes

8 Posts

£28, 135.90 per annum starting salary

Hosted within NHS Scotland Boards

NHS Scotland needs leaders and managers who can:

• lead and manage our amazing workforce
• drive excellence in service delivery
• work with partner organisations to improve Scotland’s health
• operate in a political and public spotlight

These are our values: do they speak to you?

• Care and compassion
• Dignity and respect
• Openness, honesty and responsibility
• Quality and teamwork

Why a career in NHS Scotland?

Join us and become one of the exceptional people who want a general management career or a finance management career in NHS Scotland. Apply for the NHS Scotland Management Training Scheme 2023 now! We are looking for highly talented, emotionally intelligent graduate-level individuals, who demonstrate our values.

• Ambition: you could be helping to protect and improve health and care in Scotland
• Scale: you could be working for Scotland’s biggest employer, with 160,000 staff and a £13 billion budget
• Range: you could be based in locations ranging from Shetland to the Borders, Glasgow to Aberdeen, Edinburgh to the Outer Hebrides
• Variety: you could be managing some of the huge range of people and resources that make up the NHS in Scotland

In return you will experience a range of Health and Care services in your host Board and across Scotland, as well as gaining an introduction to the role of a manager across the service. You’ll work in a real management post giving you an opportunity to build your knowledge and skills in this complex environment. You’ll get the chance to work and learn alongside some of NHS Scotland’s top leaders and clinicians. You will also gain a fully funded relevant master’s or post-graduate qualification (general management) or a fully funded CIPFA professional qualification (finance management).

Person requirements

You will be emotionally intelligent and be able to demonstrate our shared values of care and compassion, dignity and respect, openness, honesty and responsibility, and quality and teamwork.

Organisation information

The NHS in Scotland:

• Employs approximately 160,000 staff working across 14 regional health boards, seven special health boards and one public health body
• Works together and in partnership with other Scottish public sector services for the benefit of the people of Scotland
• Works towards a shared vision of world leading, effective and person-centred healthcare

Qualification and experience requirements:

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• are qualified to SCQF level 10 in any subject area (or expect to be by September 2023)
• have (or will have by September 2023) the right to work in the UK for the full duration of the Scheme
• have worked in health and care, or haven’t