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Are you a disabled graduate looking for a rewarding opportunity in NHSScotland?

GCIL Equality Academy is seeking expressions of interest from disabled graduates from across Scotland for this exciting opportunity.

To be eligible to apply for this, you must:

• ­be a self-identifying disabled person;
• ­hold a degree level qualification; and
• ­be unemployed or under-employed.

GCIL Equality Academy

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer. As an organisation OF disabled people, we positively value personal experience as a disabled person. We operate a flexible working system. We welcome applications from previous applicants.

GCIL Equality Academy, Scottish Government and NHSScotland are working in partnership to offer a range of employment opportunities for disabled graduates that will provide a rewarding and challenging experience within NHSScotland.

Graduate traineeship opportunities will be tailored to the career aspirations of the successful candidates and will offer opportunities within one or a variety of departments across NHSScotland, including, communications, finance, human resources, IT, marketing, project management, and so on.

What is important for this role?

Successful candidates require to be self-motivated, enthusiastic and committed to working towards a professional career in NHSScotland.

Support provided

We offer:

• a comprehensive induction;
• on-going coaching, support; and
• ­professional and personal development.

Success to date

NHS Professional Careers has been hugely successful in supporting disabled graduates achieve their career aims. Over 90% of participants have been supported into professional level employment beyond the programme.

For further information please visit our website. Alternatively you can telephone or e-mail on 0141 550 4455 or equalityacademy@gcil.org.uk. All information can be provided in alternative formats on request.

In a nutshell

You will be part of the small and ambitious team at the Centre for Homelessness Impact, overseeing and delivering services and products that support the sector to use data and evidence to end homelessness.

‍Why is this role important for the Centre's work?

The Centre has three strategic priorities: filling the gaps in evidence and making it accessible; supporting evidence and data to be applied in practice; and mobilising a learning culture across the field. As the Centre’s Implementation and Product Lead, you will work across all three areas, helping the team to learn about the people who we serve (our core users are policy-makers, service commissioners, funders and practitioners in the field of homelessness and beyond) and making sure we design and build effective, accessible and user-centric products and services.

We are a What Works Centre that works with a startup spirit, and as a small team we strive to work in an open, collaborative, and optimistic way. The ideal team member would be someone who is comfortable hosting a user-testing session one day, facilitating a workshop with a local authority another day and working with a developer to build a new feature for our evidence tools on another.

The Centre for Homelessness Impact values both rigorous science and human-centred design, meaning we seek to combine great user experience with solid evidence throughout all of our work. As well as drawing on the expertise within our team, we collaborate with best-in-class partners such as IDEO, Johns Hopkins University, the Campbell Collaboration and the Behavioural Insights Team.

‍You will be responsible for:

Developing, operating and continually improving our evidence tools

Representing the voice of our users (i.e. policy-makers, service commissioners, funders and practitioners) on behalf of the team, and translating insights into opportunities for improvements to our products, programmes and overall offer to the field of homelessness

Planning, delivering and facilitating workshops with users, stakeholders and partners

Working with the Centre’s associates, freelance network and knowledge partners to bring in specialist expertise to support our work

Helping shape the Centre’s approach to implementation by anticipating the needs of our users

Collaborating with other What Works Centres to find opportunities to amplify our impact across policy fields

‍Your experience and skills:

You have 3-5 years of experience in a design-based role.

You have excellent project management skills, know when to challenge, when to listen, and when to lead. You'll be able to build relationships and juggle users, clients, sector leaders and the Centre’s partners. Above all, you get stuff done.

You’re a big picture thinker. You see opportunities where others see barriers, and you can confidently and optimistically articulate these opportunities to stakeholders and decision-makers.

You have a proven track record of delivering user-oriented solutions. You are passionate about uncovering user needs, identifying opportunities and translating them into products, services or programmes that meet those needs effectively.

You have experience delivering digital products or services, partnering with developers and designers, and leading product prioritisation and delivery of user-facing functionality. You are technically minded, and comfortable in technical conversations.

You think laterally, take inspiration from broad sources beyond the sectors you work in and approach the development of new solutions creatively.

You believe in the importance of using data and insights in decision-making.

‍Nice to have:

Expertise in visual design skills, including wireframing

Expertise in prototyping

Expertise in implementation science