Training Co-ordinator

Job details

• Job reference: 247171
• Salary: Band 3 (£29,103 - £31,409)
• Job closing date: 11/06/2026
• Job Type: Administrative Services
• Location: Kirklands - NHSL Headquarters
• Employment type: Fixed-term or Secondment
• Hours Per Week: 15
• Job posted date: 04/06/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lanarkshire
• Department: Organisational Development

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

This role will be to manage the Education and Training Centre on a day-to-day basis. Also to co-ordinate, the administration associated with training activity.You will also provide secretarial and administrative work to the Training Team.

The working pattern for this role is Hours Between - 8.30am - 4.30pm

Please note this is a fixed term post for 9 months. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

In this key role, you will:

• Providing a seamless service to all users of the Training Centre; allocating and recording room bookings; liaising with specialist trainers on room usage; providing information on information board on room usage; assisting users with equipment; ensuring training room is well equipped and to co-ordinate the issue and return of audio-visual equipment to all staff.
• Providing information and booking appropriate participants onto courses; producing high quality support material for trainers, e.g. visual aids, handouts, workbooks and ensuring the appropriate equipment is available and in good working order; organising appropriate catering for events when necessary.
• Liaising with several recruitment departments.
• Provide monthly activity reports to the Training Manager.

What You'll Bring:

• Educated to SVQ3 or equivalent experience
• Excellent interpersonal/customer care skills.
• Excellent organisational skills and communication skills.
• Experience of setting up databases

A driving licence is required; this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

What we Offer

As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Hayley Owens, PA / Team Leader, Human Resources on Hayley.Owens@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact Gemma Irwin, Recruitment Administrator on Gemma.Irwin@Lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Interested?

Full details about the role are provided in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please review our Application Guidance which explain key information including closing dates, amendments, right‑to‑work requirements, sponsorship eligibility and important points to be aware of before submitting your application

You can also learn more about working with NHS Lanarkshire by viewing our Information Pack

Unless otherwise stated, the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.

This advert may close early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply early.