NHS Scotland
Engineer (Specialist Analyst)
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On 1 April 2026, NSS and NES became one national organisation, focused on continuity today and a stronger, more connected service for tomorrow.
As part of this transformation, NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) have joined to form a new organisation: Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland). This new organisation will play a pivotal role in supporting the renewal and ensuring the long-term sustainability of health and care services across Scotland.
Flexible Location: PSD Scotland is a remote-friendly employer with staff based throughout Scotland. We support office-based and hybrid working arrangements. We welcome conversations about alternative working patterns—please get in touch during the application process to discuss.
Work Pattern: Fixed Term, Full Time, 36 hours per week
Fixed-term or Secondment** for 12 Months
For NHS applicants, an NHS secondment will be offered in the first instance. For non-NHS applicants, a fixed-term or secondment would be considered.
You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.
Who We Are
PSD Scotland unites expertise from NES and NSS in a way that will allow us to accelerate national programmes to support the NHS to deliver better care, now and in the future.
We support staff with education and training, provide the tools and data that improve services, and run vital national functions such as procurement, logistics and blood, tissue and cell services.
It is in pursuit of this aim that PSD Scotland Technology service are working with partners to develop digital-first solutions.
We build and support systems on standards-based platforms, supporting technology and data for the health and social care environment. We have a commitment to making health and care information and services more accessible and better suited for a modern health system.
As part of the team within the Health and Social Care domain in PTS, this role will be instrumental in helping keep high standards and delivering real value to those working in Health and Social Care across Scotland.
The Opportunity
To deliver the PSD Scotland Strategy and assist in delivering against the Scottish Government Digital Health and Care Strategy and Data Strategy. PTS is seeking a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to help develop and maintain existing digital solutions for the Health and Social Care sectors within Scotland, across differing areas such as Vaccination management, and work force staffing.
As an Engineer you will be responsible for working within a multi-disciplinary team, across the entire development lifecycle - planning, building, deploying, supporting and eventually decommissioning - to deliver products/services which meet the needs of our users. You will be working as part of an agile delivery team using modern development technologies and methodologies
- Do you enjoy working and collaborating as part of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary agile team?
- Do you enjoy problem-solving and being adaptive to an ever-changing yet rewarding environment?
- Do you want to play a key role in the development and maintenance of high quality, scalable web solutions, developed for a broad range of users across Scotland?
- Do you have a passion for development best practices in areas such as cloud architecture, web application system design, security and debugging?
- Do you want to work within a strong and diverse team and as part of a wider technology sector to help deliver better care to the people of Scotland?
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Working within the PSD Scotland Technology Service your work will directly influence the development of impactful technology services for health and care professionals and the general public.
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What We Love To See
Software Engineers offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Ability to facilitate development of complex software and contribute to the technical direction of a project
- An understanding of Agile software development practices.
- Ability to collaboratively design, code, test, and document software using modern industry standards and tools
- Experience in cloud provider technologies (e.g. from AWS/Azure), serverless solutions and continuous deployment best practices
- Experience in maintenance and querying database technologies, either relational (e.g. SQL Server, MySQL) or non-relational (e.g. DynamoDB)
- Ability to comprehend and extract meaning from large datasets and the relationships between them
- Effective communication skills, knowing how to make complex technical information and language simple for diverse senior internal and external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
- Mentoring and/or coaching experience
- Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
- Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workloads, to meet strict deadlines
Benefits Which Matter
As a valued employee of NHS Scotland, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:
- Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and hybrid working
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
- Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday
- NHS discounts and more
Diversity and Inclusion
Developing a successful national service for Scotland means considering the diverse needs, perspectives, and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland. We are focused on hiring the very best talent and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. Our aim to ensure that everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has a positive recruitment experience—regardless of the outcome.
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We welcome applications from all under-represented groups, including racially minoritised people and disabled people. It is not essential to be in Software Engineering role right now—you may be returning from a career break (e.g., maternity, paternity, caring) or coming from another field. Your experiences can bring a fresh perspective to our work.
If you are considering applying and would like to discuss the opportunity, any adjustments or alternative work patterns, please contact Mark.McLaughlin@nhs.scot, Head of Service (Engineering), Health and Social Care.
Next Steps
NHS candidates will be considered firstly on a secondment basis, and so are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current NHS employer at the earliest opportunity, ideally prior to application.
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
In person OR online interviews will take place on between 21st of August and 26 of August 2026..
For further information please refer to the Job Information Pack below.
Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.
Please be advised that if you are successful in being offered the role following the recruitment process, you will be expected to attend the office prior to your start date to complete face-to-face pre-employment checks. If you require any adjustments to support this, please let us know.
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 Visa and Immigrations 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.
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. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. 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.
If you have any queries regarding the NHS Scotland National Recruitment Portal or the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact our recruitment partners, the East Region Recruitment Service, at: EoS.ERRS@nhs.scot
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