NHS Scotland
Practice Educator - Spiritual Care
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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: Permanent, Part Time, 25.2 hours per week
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.
The Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) Directorate works to support the education, training and continuing professional development of nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health and social care chaplains and healthcare support workers. The Directorate is also responsible for providing education, training and workforce development across wider professional groups and disciplines, often in partnership with other agencies, to support key policy drivers.
The Opportunity
Our Spiritual Care Team is looking for a collaborative and insightful Practice Educator who brings curiosity, professional judgement and initiative – someone who can work across boundaries, ask the right questions, and translate emerging needs into impactful educational design and delivery. Our team designs and delivers a range of education projects and initiatives (including online resources) to support the CPD needs of the spiritual care workforce and wider education relating to spiritual care for the workforce across health, social care, the wider public sector and beyond.
The post holder will be committed to supporting the role that education and workforce development play to ensure that the spiritual care needs of both staff and service users, including family and carers are met across services in Scotland. Collaboration is key to the success of this role, and the post holder will work across professional and organisational structures and boundaries to deliver innovative, inclusive, interprofessional education. They will be confident in identifying gaps in provision and turning insight, evidence and stakeholder perspectives into practical, high-quality educational solutions. The post holder to work inclusively across all faith and belief paths, ensuring the current approach to Spiritual Care in Scotland is maintained and developed.
Working as a Practice Educator within the team you will ensure that our education resources and initiatives support the delivery of the Scottish Spiritual Care direction, as set out in the Scottish Government’s spiritual care framework ‘Discovering meaning, purpose and hope through person centred wellbeing and Spiritual Care: A National Framework’, published in 2023, the NHS Scotland National Service Specification “Standards for the delivery of compassionate person-centred Spiritual Care Services”, March 2026, and PSD Scotland’s policy and direction.
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Do you want to develop, design, deliver and evaluate high quality spiritual care education programmes, resources and initiatives?
Do you want to support access to spiritual care education resources, enhancing the learning and development experience of the workforce across health, social care and the wider public sector?
Do you thrive in an evolving landscape where you will use curiosity, insight and initiative to shape education that responds to emerging needs?
Do you enjoy turning insight into innovation to enhance the learning and development experience?
Do you enjoy working collaboratively and cross-professionally as you build relationships and partnerships with others?
Working within the Spiritual Care team in the NMAHP Directorate you will have the opportunity to lead on the design, development and delivery of workforce education and evaluate responses to meet both current and future needs.
Equality and human rights will be at the heart of what you do. You will have the opportunity to bring your skills and experience to the team and contribute to multiple workstreams within PSD (Scotland) to help people who work in health and social care get the education and skills they need to provide good quality spiritual care for people in Scotland.
The Spiritual Care Team in PSD (Scotland) sits within the Mental Health and Wellbeing programme of the NMAHP Directorate and has the support of the Head of Programme, to provide guidance within the complex policy, education and practice. You will be supported by the Senior Educator for Spiritual Care and will be enabled to take the lead for specific programmes, resources and initiatives within the spiritual care work, as well as supporting and leading on the development and delivery of several core spiritual care education products including Values Based Reflective Practice (VBRP®) and Community Chaplaincy Listening (CCL).
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What We Love To See
Practice Educators offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Knowledge of Scotland’s approach to spiritual care support in health and care service settings, and the role of Registered Healthcare Chaplains in context of the Spiritual Care Framework published in 2023
- Experience of VBRP® facilitation and delivery
- Experience of delivering CCL Training
- Subject knowledge and clinical/practice expertise working in spiritual care
- Experience in sourcing, understanding and interpreting the spiritual care evidence base, to identify educational need, opportunities and implications
- Experience of working in an education environment or role including experience of planning, developing and delivering mixed modes of education and training
- Record of supporting and/or contributing to research and evidenced based practice relevant to spiritual care services
- Record of listening to, understanding and communicating complex information from a range of sources and eliciting a range of views
- Experience of leading on, working on, designing and delivering national projects and initiatives
- Record of working flexibly in complex/sensitive environments with a range of stakeholders where the parameters of the job are not necessarily clearly defined and consensus agreement is required
- Ability to shape resources to emerging needs through curiosity, collaboration and evidence
- 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
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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.
We welcome applications from all under-represented groups, including racially minoritised people and disabled people. It is not essential to be in a Practice Educator 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 Dr Frankie Greenwood, Public Services Delivery Scotland at: Frankie.greenwood@nhs.scot
Next Steps
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
In person OR online interviews including a presentation will take place on 19th and/or 20th August 2026. The presentation topic will be sent to candidates selected for interview.
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.
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