Senior Policy Officer: Health and Social Care

6 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 308163**Salary**:

- £42,090 - £48,996**Job grade**:

- Other- E3**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- EdinburghAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Senior Policy Officer: Health and Social Care Education
Permanent, Full Time
Edinburgh/Hybrid

£42,090 - £48,996 per annum (E3 Grade)

Everything we do at the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) aims to create the right environment for colleges and universities to thrive individually and collectively.

The Scottish Funding Council is Scotland’s tertiary education and research authority. Our ambition is to make Scotland an outstanding place to learn, educate, research, and innovate - now and for the future. So, naturally, we have a clear focus on recruiting the best people and developing them throughout their career.

We invest around £2 billion every year, and our funding enables colleges and universities to provide life-changing opportunities for over half a million people.

We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but also people who will connect with our guiding principles which include working in partnership, championing diversity, and supporting sustainability for future generations.

By fostering our guiding principles, we are very proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. We are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds: we want our colleague base to reflect the people and communities that we serve.

**Job Summary**
- This is a new and exciting opportunity to support SFC’s health and social care policy work within our Coherent Learning Provision team. _
- In this role you will work closely with internal partners from across SFC, as well as key external partners, on a wide variety of issues - primarily around SFC’s engagement with colleges and universities on provision to better reflect and enhance SFC’s levers in meeting the challenges for the health and social care sector. _
- This is a varied and rewarding role, and a fantastic opportunity for you to join an organisation that seeks to make a real difference to people’s lives and life chances across the whole of Scotland.. _
- If this appeals to you and you can see yourself in this role, take a read through the job description below for further details._

**Job description**:
**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead on and/or support (variously) the development of SFC’s educational policy for the health and social care sector, focusing on educational provision in Scotland’s colleges and pathways into employment in the NHS or the social care sector.
- Take responsibility for engagement with key health and social care and educational partners, including working closely with the Assistant Director on SFC’s Joint Action Plan with NHS Education Scotland (NES), ensuring SFC’s policy positions are clearly understood and that there is effective and proactive stakeholder management.
- Work closely across other directorates in SFC providing advice and support in the development of policy for the health and social care sector.
- Horizon-scan and provide advice, support and guidance to internal and external Scottish stakeholders, producing briefings, reports and committee papers as required for SFC senior management and key stakeholders predominately in the area of health and social care.
- Draft and present policy and strategy papers at committee and board level.
- Draft high-level briefings, speeches and other materials for senior SFC staff and board members.
- Represent SFC at external meetings, conferences and other events, including giving presentations, chairing and facilitating discussions when required.
- Provide effective line management to other team members as required.
- Contribute flexibly to the work of the wider directorate and other groups in SFC as appropriate and when required. From time to time, this may include deputising for your line manager or other colleagues.

**Person specification**:
**Person specification**

**It is important through your CV / Cover Letter that you give evidence of proven experience of each of the following essential criteria:
**_Essential _**
- _Experience of policy development, stakeholder engagement and influencing within a complex political environment, ideally in the area of health and social care education in Scotland. _
- _A proven track record of delivering high quality and effective outputs within time and resource constraints, including effective organisation and project management skills to cope with a diverse and changing workload._
- _ Well-developed analytical skills, including the ability to use both qualitative and quantitative data to good effect. _
- _Excellent interpersonal and communication skills so as to represent, negotiate and persuade, with the ability to build and maintain str

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