The NHS Scotland Academy is a partnership between NHS Golden Jubilee and Public Services Delivery Scotland (formerly NHS Education for Scotland) funded by Scottish Government to offer accelerated training for a wide range of health and social care roles and professions. The Academy provides an chance for staff to improve their skills in specific areas, using mixed methods including immersion, simulation, and distance learning. It offers attractive training programmes linked to recruitment and career progression.
The Academy draws on the strengths of both parent organisations. It uses the state-of-the-art clinical, simulation facilities at NHS Golden Jubilee, and the educational expertise and technology-enabled learning offered by Public Services Delivery Scotland.
The Academy supports NHS Scotland to develop additional capacity and new capabilities. It adds to existing educational programmes and responds to evolving and emerging workforce needs. Since our launch in October 2021,
we have established many successful training programmes including those offering immersive training experiences for residents and consultants in endoscopy and ultrasound.
As part of this partnership, the successful applicants will be employed by a host Board through a Service Level Agreement with their own board, or via a locum or bank contract with a host Board directly.
About The Cataract Surgery Immersive Training Programme
NHS Scotland Academy exists to deliver unique workforce learning opportunities on behalf of NHS Scotland. Funding has been made available to a number of Boards for increased activity to help reduce waiting times for cataract surgery, and, in parallel, NHS Scotland Academy has been funded to increase the number of immersive training opportunities for resident doctors and/or SAS doctors who are working towards the RCOpth EPA in running an independent cataract list.
The training programme is based on the positive feedback from reside