Consultant Clinical Informatician

About The Organisation
NSS is playing a crucial and continuing role supporting the remobilisation of NHS Scotland. Our priorities will deliver against in support of our partners, our NHS, and the people of Scotland. We work in partnership enabling health and care transformation, by underpinning NHS Scotland with excellent services and assisting other organisations involved in health and care.

Challenges in health and social care are complex. Intelligent data, cyber security, innovation, automation and more are helping us solve them. Digital and Security works in partnership with a range of public sector partners, providing access to digital services, including end-to-end business solutions, technology and data for clinical settings, and digital security options.

The Post
The National Clinical Informatics Service for Scotland (NCISS) is involved in Clinical Safety Assurance of Health IT; Software as a Medical Device; Health & Care Analytics; Clinical Terminologies; Digital Health & Care Solutions; Clinical Data & Information; Research & Innovation; and Training & Events.

Scotland's Digital Health and Care Strategy makes a commitment to develop and embed a standards based approach to clinical and care safety cases for all major systems. NCISS has a vital role in supporting this commitment. With the resulting increased demand for clinical assurance on a range of new IT solutions, an exciting opportunity has been created to strengthen our Clinical Informatics Team. Our Consultant Clinical Informaticians, working as clinical advisers, play a critical role in enhancing the clinical safety of a range of IT solutions being developed/supported by the Digital & Security Business Unit by providing clinical advisory and clinical safety input to national programmes.

Key elements of the role currently will include working with a variety of national programme teams as a clinical adviser providing input both from a clinical safety perspective and as a subject matter expert to support migrations, development and testing of new system functionality, as well as advice to support the Business As Usual team, ensuring a robust approach to risk management including adverse event management through the full software lifecycle.

The Candidate
The successful candidate will be required to undergo a PVG Scheme/Disclosure Scotland check. Any candidate who have lived/worked overseas for more than 12 months in the preceding 5 years will also be required to provide a criminal record check from the appropriate overseas agency.

Candidates must have current GPhC registration at the time of applying.

Location and Working Pattern:
Gyle Square, Edinburgh or Delta House, Glasgow.

Currently hybrid working.

Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week.

It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with NSS.

Benefits
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.

Inclusion
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) is a national board and, as an anchor institution, it is our ambition to be a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone feels welcome. We recognise that flexible working creates an inclusive workplace where employees can thrive and feel confident about their ability to balance their personal and professional responsibilities. This is supported through Once for Scotland flexible working policies. NSS has made a long-term commitment to staff health and well-being and offers many learning and development opportunities to support and improve our approaches to diversity, inclusion and mental health in the workplace. There are a number of equality staff networks in place which all staff are welcome to join. We are also an equal opportunities employer and as such guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As an accredited Disability Confident Leader, it is the aim of NSS to offer a fully accessible and inclusive recruitment service that supports applicants on their candidate journey. If you are interested in any reasonable adjustments, please contact the Recruitment Team on

Further Information
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact
Jacqueline Bzdyk (Head of Service: NCSAS) at
Closing date for completed applications is
Wednesday 3rd December
Further information on NSS is available from:

Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).

NHS National Services Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as committed participant in the disability confident scheme, guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies