Person specification
Job title: Information Governance Analyst
Attributes
Experience
Essential
• Demonstrate a successful track record in a similar role
• Experience of analysing information, drafting and responding to enquiries relating to Freedom of Information Scotland Act (FOISA), Information Rights (DPA 2018) and other information requests.
Desirable
• Experience of working with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Supporting key transformational project work providing advice and guidance on Data protection and Records & Information Management
• Data Protection Impact Assessments
• Experience of line managing staff.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential
• Educated to degree level (SCQF Level 9) in a related subject such as Law, or at least two years positive demonstrable experience in a similar role
• Data Protection training
• Freedom of Information training.
Desirable
• GDPR/DPA 2018 Practitioners Certificate
• Freedom of Information(Scotland) Act 2002 Practitioners Certificate.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
• Excellent communication and organisational skills with an ability to remain calm under pressure
• Excellent IT skills and practical experience in using Excel and database management
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Knowledge and understanding of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Data Protection Act 2018 and best practice
• Ability to work on own initiative.
Desirable
• O365 & SharePoint
• Experience of using information governance specific software e.g One Trust
Key Performance Outcomes
Effective Communication
Essential
• Articulate and positive communicator on a 1-1 basis and in larger groups
• Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to adapt communication to suit different audiences.
Impact and influence
Essential
• Demonstrates ability to influence at all levels
• Ability to give realistic advice, based on relevant, up to date and verifiable information
• Evidence of building positive relationships, engaging and collaborating effectively with others internally and externally.
Improvement focus
Essential
• Identifies gaps in process and performance and makes appropriate suggestions for improvements
• Aware of trends and changes and maintains professional knowledge and skills
• Uses knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information in order to make appropriate changes and improvements.
Objective decision-making
Essential
• Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving
• Ability to make appropriate and realistic judgments, based on professional expertise, relevant, up to date and verifiable information
• Ability to analyse complex information.
Planning and organising
Essential
• Involves others where appropriate and optimises resources to achieve desired results
• Regularly reviews joint goals and targets and reprioritises where necessary
• Recognises the need to be flexible in order to meet changing priorities.
Team working
Essential
• Contributes to and supports the work and decisions of the team
• Contributes to the shared vision and purpose and shares this effectively
• Works collaboratively with a wide range of teams across the Care Inspectorate.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.
Successful applicants will be assessed against all the performance indicators used in the Performance Development Review System once established in the role.
Person specification
Job title: Organisational and Workforce Development (OWD) Assistant
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Ability to plan and schedule events and activities.
- Ability to work to deadlines.
- Ability to prioritise workloads.
- Experience of working as part of a team
Desirable:
- Experience of working in an OD/ HR/ L&D function.
- Events planning and co-ordination experience
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- Qualifications or skills and experience at SCQF Level 4/Level 5 (i.e. Standard Grades or National Qualifications).
- Commitment to own CPD.
Desirable:
- Qualifications or skills and experience at SCQF Level 9 (i.e. Degree in relevant subject).
- CIPD qualified or working towards.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and work to tight deadlines/prioritise workloads
- Strong IT skills, with good working knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages
- Strong communicator, both verbally and in written form.
Desirable:
- Experience of using Cornerstone learning management system or other learning management systems
- Working knowledge and understanding of OD/HR practices and key policies and procedures.
Key performance outcome
Effective communication
Essential:
- Demonstrate clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to select appropriate communication style and methods depending on the needs and abilities of the audience.
- Listens actively and questions to check understanding.
Team working
Essential:
- Ability to contribute to and support the work and decisions of the team.
- Ability to work co-operatively and supportively with others.
- Values and makes use of skills, knowledge and experience of others.
Improvement focus
Essential:
- Contributes to the development of new ideas, policies and procedures where appropriate.
- Aware of trends and changes in processes and procedures and keeps own knowledge and skills up to date.
- Seeks opportunities for learning and personal development.
Personal accountability and responsibility
Essential:
- Maintains a high standard of work, ensuring attention to detail, actively seeking out continuous improvement.
- Demonstrates initiative within own area of expertise.
- Takes responsibility for own actions and decisions.
Working in partnership
Essential:
- Openly shares information as and when appropriate, maintaining confidentiality as appropriate.
- Respects others, recognises and values differences and diversity.
- Keeps others information of progress of work plan, targets, etc.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role. Successful applicants will be assessed against all the performance indicators used in the Performance Development Review System once established in the role.
Person specification
Job title: Senior change manager
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Proven experience leading business change activities within complex digital transformation programmes.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership and board-level executives.
- Extensive knowledge and practical application of change management principles, methodologies, and tools.
- Track record of successfully delivering change initiatives on time, within budget, and aligned with strategic objectives.
- Strong ability to develop and execute communication and engagement strategies to build change readiness, drive adoption and manage resistance.
- Expertise in shaping and developing business change frameworks, templates, and best practices.
- Experience managing change activities involving third-party partners and external service providers.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- Certification in Change Management methodologies (e.g., Prosci, APMG Change Management, ACMP).
- Educated to degree level or equivalent (SCQF Level 9).
Desirable:
- Qualification in relevant project/programme management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile, MSP).
Skills/knowledge
Essential:
- Deep understanding of change management models, frameworks, and best practices.
- Ability to align change initiatives with wider organisational strategy and business objectives to ensure change delivers value.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence at all levels.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities and challenges.
- Experience of shaping and delivering effective stakeholders strategies, with the ability to build strong relationships with internal teams and third-party suppliers to drive transformation efforts.
- Understanding of how digital tools and technologies impact business change and transformation.
- Ability to work proactively, at pace, and independently, taking ownership of tasks and driving change effectively using project management skills.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of the social care sector.
Competencies/key performance outcomes
Effective communication:
- Proficiency in creating compelling, clear, and impactful content tailored to diverse audiences and communication channels.
- Ability to explain complex issues to diverse stakeholders in a clear and engaging way, both verbally and in writing.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with different teams and build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
Impact and influence:
- Skilled in persuading and engaging stakeholders to gain buy-in and drive change.
- Evidence of building positive relationships, engaging and collaborating effectively with others internally and externally.
Objective decision making:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and address stakeholder concerns and adjust communication strategies accordingly.
- Ability to make appropriate and realistic judgments, based on professional expertise, relevant, up-to-date and verifiable information.
- Ability to analyse complex information.
Planning and organising:
- Ability to work under broad direction (often self-initiating work) to establish milestones and successfully meet objectives.
- Involves others where appropriate and optimises resources to achieve desired results.
- Regularly reviews joint goals and targets and reprioritises where necessary.
- Proactive in identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies to ensure smooth project delivery.
Team working:
- Contributes to and supports the work and decisions of the project team.
- Contributes to the shared vision and purpose and shares this effectively.
- Commitment to innovation in change practices and continuous improvement based on feedback and performance data.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role. Successful applicants will be assessed against all the performance indicators used in the Performance Development Review System once established in the role.
Person specification
Job title: Administrator Support Assistant (internally known as Chief Inspector Support Assistant)
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Experience of providing business support at executive and/or senior level including diary management
- Experience of interpreting the business conducted at meetings and producing accurate minutes to reflect discussion and decision
- Experience of preparing communication for circulation to various audiences
Desirable:
- Ability to develop and produce correspondence and emails on behalf of a senior manager.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- Educated SCQF Level 5, such as Standard Grade level or equivalent.
Desirable:
- Hold a relevant qualification in administration, and/or secretarial studies e.g. HNC/D or equivalent.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Excellent organisational, planning and decision making skills.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and work to tight deadlines/plan and prioritise workloads.
- Experience of developing processes and procedures.
- Good working knowledge of IT packages including Microsoft Applications and database input.
- Ability to translate plans into action.
Key performance outcomes
Effective communication
Essential:
- Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to adapt communication to suit different audiences
- Ability to form constructive working relationships with people at all levels in the organisation
- Regularly communicates with and ensures they are accessible to colleagues and key contacts
- Ability to communicate decisions to colleagues and key contacts.
Objective decision making
Essential:
- Demonstrates an analytical and systematic approach to problem solving
- Considers Care Inspectorate values in relation to the impact of their decisions
- Considers the wider context in which the Care Inspectorate operates
Desirable:
- Ability to express and present complex information.
Planning and organising
Essential:
- Ability to react to changing priorities and manage conflicting demands
- Uses a systematic approach to make efficient use of time and manage workload
- Recognises the need to be flexible in order to meet changing priorities.
Flexibility
Essential:
- Demonstrates a flexible, positive approach to work
- Listens to feedback and ideas from people and will take appropriate and considered action
- Adapts well to change, adjusting priorities as required
- Ability to apply skills flexibly as required.
Personal accountability and responsibility
Essential:
- Takes responsibility for decisions and actions taken
- Maintains a high standard of work and actively seeks out continuous improvement
- Demonstrates initiative within own area of expertise
- Takes responsibility for identifying and addressing areas of personal and professional development.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role. Successful applicants will be assessed against all the performance indicators used in the Performance Development Review System once established in the role.
Person specification
Job title: Executive Support Officer
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Experience of servicing committees and senior management meetings, including scheduling and minute taking.
- Experience of providing administrative support at senior level.
- Experience of staff supervision systems, policies and procedures.
- Experience of people management
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- You will be educated to SCQF Level 8 or equivalent experience in administration, management or business studies.
Desirable:
- HNC/D or equivalent.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Excellent report writing skills with ability to report and present information in a succinct manner
- Good working knowledge of IT packages including Microsoft Applications
- Experience of developing processes and procedures.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and work to tight deadlines/plan and prioritise workloads.
- Ability to supervise staff and provide training and development opportunities to maximise resources.
- Ability to delegate work appropriately within the support team.
- Ability to translate plans into action.
Key performance outcomes
Effective communication
Essential:
- Ability to prepare reports, minutes and other written communication to a high standard.
- Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to adapt communication to suit different audiences.
- Ability to form constructive working relationships with people at all levels in the organisation.
- Regularly communicates with and ensures they are accessible to their team.
- Ability to communicate decisions to team members.
Desirable:
- Encouragement of colleagues to express their own ideas.
Objective decision making
Essential:
- Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.
- Encourages and supports decisions of team members.
- Considers organisational values in relation to the impact of their decisions.
- Considers the wider context in which the Care Inspectorate operates.
Desirable:
- Ability to express and present complex information.
Planning and organising
Essential:
- Ability to react to changing priorities and to prioritise conflicting demands.
- Ability to forward plan and prevent any operational difficulties.
- Regularly reviews workloads, goals and targets with team and prioritise where necessary.
- Uses 1-1 supervision to support team members to plan workloads.
- Delegates effectively to others and optimises resources to achieve desired results.
- Allocates people and resources effectively by taking account of individual strengths and development needs.
Flexibility
Essential:
- Encourages a flexible, positive approach to work in their team.
- Applies rules and procedures sensibly and understands where flexibility is required.
- Ability to apply skills flexibly within teams as required.
Improvement focus
Essential:
- Contributes to the development of operational processes and systems.
- Ability to identify gaps in performance and make appropriate suggestions for improvement.
- Ability to use knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information to make appropriate improvements.
- Demonstrates initiative, drive and determination to complete tasks and achieve objectives.
- Improves the development and quality of services
Desirable:
- Demonstrates understanding of the principles of public accountability.
Teamworking
Essential:
- Contributes to the organisational and team vision and purpose and shares this effectively.
- Encourages the team to work co-operatively with each other.
- Involves the team in decision and actions.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.
Person specification
Jon title: Corporate Support Officer
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Experience of providing administrative support at senior level.
- Experience of staff supervision systems, policies and procedures.
- Experience of people management.
- Experience of servicing senior management meetings, including scheduling and note-taking.
Desirable:
- Experience of contract management
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- You will be educated to SCQF Level 8 (e.g. HND, diploma of higher education) or have relevant skills and experience in administration, management or business studies.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Good working knowledge of IT packages. including spreadsheets, Microsoft Applications and database input.
- Experience of developing processes and procedures.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and work to tight deadlines/plan and prioritise workloads.
- Ability to supervise staff and provide training and development opportunities to maximise resources.
- Ability to delegate work appropriately within the support team.
- Ability to translate plans into action.
Key performance outcomes
Effective communication
Essential:
- Ability to prepare reports and other written communication to a high standard.
- Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to adapt communication to suit different audiences.
- Ability to form constructive working relationships with people at all levels in the organisation.
- Regularly communicate with and ensure accessibility to the team.
- Ability to communicate decisions to team members.
Desirable:
- Ability to motivate and encourage team to express own ideas.
Objective decision making
Essential:
- Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.
- Encourages and supports the team to be involved in decision-making, where appropriate.
- Considers organisational values in relation to the impact of their decisions.
- Considers the wider context in which the organisation operates.
Desirable:
- Ability to express and present complex information.
Planning and organising
Essential:
- Regularly reviews workloads, goals and targets with team and prioritises where necessary.
- Uses 1-1 supervision to support team members to plan workloads.
- Delegates effectively to others and optimises resources to achieve desired results.
- Allocates people and resources effectively by taking account of individual strengths and development needs.
- Ability to react to changing priorities and to prioritise conflicting demands.
- Ability to forward plan and prevent any operational difficulties.
Flexibility
Essential:
- Encourages a flexible, positive approach to work in their team.
- Applies rules and procedures sensibly and understands where flexibility is required.
- Ability to apply skills flexibly within teams as required.
Improvement focus
Essential:
- Contributes to the development of operational processes and systems.
- Ability to identify gaps in performance and make appropriate suggestions for improvement.
- Ability to use knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information to make appropriate improvements.
- Demonstrates initiative, drive and determination to complete tasks and achieve objectives.
- Improves the development and quality of services.
Desirable:
- Demonstrates understanding of the principles of public accountability.
Teamworking
Essential:
- Contributes to the shared vision and purpose and shares this effectively.
- Encourages the team to work co-operatively with each other.
- Involves the team in decision and actions.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role. Successful applicants will be assessed against all the performance indicators used in the appraisal system once established in the role.
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Person specification
Job Title: Business Support Assistant (Operations)
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of business support role at a similar level.
Desirable:
- Experience of working with external/internal contacts at all levels.
- Experience of working within an office environment.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- You will be educated to SCQF Level 5 (e.g. National 5 level) or have the equivalent skills and experience.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office software.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritisation of workload.
- Ability to meet deadlines.
- Attention to detail.
Desirable:
- Experience of working with bespoke IT systems/databases.
Key performance outcomes
Effective communication
Essential:
- Portrays a positive image of the Care Inspectorate when communicating (written and verbal) both inside the organisation and externally.
- Selects appropriate communication, style and methods depending on the needs and abilities of the audience.
- Listens actively to people, questions and checks understanding.
Planning and organising
Essential:
- Uses a systematic approach to make efficient use of time and manage workload.
- Recognises the need to be flexible to meet changing priorities.
- Prioritises work effectively to meet deadlines and objectives.
Flexibility
Essential:
- Demonstrates a flexible, positive approach to work.
- Listens to feedback and ideas from people and will take appropriate and considered action.
- Adapts well to change, adjusting priorities as required.
- Understands where a flexible approach is required.
Desirable:
- Understanding or experience of working within a hybrid working system.
Team working
Essential:
- Remains tolerant and fair towards others, values diversity and is non-discriminatory in their actions.
- Values and makes use of the skills, knowledge and experience of others.
- Works co-operatively and supportively with others.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.
Person specification
Job title: Team Manager
Attributes
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of operational scrutiny activity and professional regulatory practice within the health and social care, or other relevant sectors.
- Demonstrable evidence of embedding sustainable transformational change.
Desirable
- Experience of leading and managing operational inspection activity/regulatory practice
Education, qualifications and training
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Appropriate professional qualification.
- Commitment to own CPD.
- You will have a secondary Authorised Officer qualification - either PDA (Professional Development Award), RoCA (Regulation of Care Award), EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) or PSIF (Public Sector Improvement Framework).
Desirable
- Relevant management/leadership qualification,e.g. MBA, Institute of Leadership & Management.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- The ability to apply operational leadership and direction to a diverse team of professional staff.
- Demonstrate significant knowledge of working with inspection/regulation of care.
- Demonstrate commitment to the principles of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 and the principles of better regulation.
- Be adept at challenging traditional thinking in a positive and constructive way.
- Excellent communicator, both verbally and in written form.
- Politically astute.
- Ability to translate plans into action.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
- Knowledge of trends and changes within health and social care, or other relevant sectors with an understanding of Equality and Diversity issues.
- IT literate, using the most effective methods to communicate and manage information.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of health/social care practice, theory, policy and research.
- Understanding of, and ability to demonstrate, the management of complex projects.
Key performance outcomes
Leading others
Essential
- Ability to provide leadership, a clear sense of purpose and direction to a professional team within the Care Inspectorate.
- Ability to deploy staff and other resources effectively to achieve performance objectives.
- Ensure that the team conducts itself in accordance with the highest standards of integrity, probity and openness.
Desirable
- Demonstrates experience of delivering cultural change.
Management of resources
Essential
- Ability to bring together the overall work of a team of staff, including staff and budget responsibilities.
- Ability to manage resources and budgets in achievement of the Care Inspectorate’s objectives.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement and manage planning and performance processes.
Effective communication
Essential
- Articulate and positive communicator both in verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to engage, influence and lead the development of a wide range of key stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally.
- The ability to build and guide key stakeholder strategies and manage relationships to secure or improve delivery of key programme or service outputs.
Impact and influence
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to influence at all levels.
- Ability to promote, lead and implement strategies and change programmes to improve the development and quality of services.
- Evidence of building positive relationships, engaging and collaborating effectively with others internally and externally.
- Demonstrates personal resilience, being able to work flexibly under pressure with stamina and tenacity to deliver results
Desirable
- Ability to take account of wider political and organisational sensitivities to deliver strategic objectives
Objectived decision making
Essential
- The ability to assist senior/executive management to set, in consultation with others, the overall strategic agenda, long term objectives and performance standards for the organisation.
- Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.
- Ability to make appropriate and realistic judgments, based on relevant, up to date and verifiable information.
- The ability to take responsibility for difficult decisions and to remain resilient against possible criticism.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role. Successful applicants will be assessed against all the performance indicators used in the Performance Development Review System once established in the role.
Subcategories
Inspector - Early Learning and Childcare (ELC)
The early learning and childcare expansion…
Role: Inspector - Early Learning and Childcare (ELC)
Location: Forth Valley, Borders, Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh & Glasgow
Salary: £31,083 - £39,069 plus excellent benefits
Hours: 140 hours to be worked over a 4-week period
Contract: Permanent or 2-year secondment (would be considered)
Join us and make a difference – for you, for everyone
It’s our job to ensure care for everyone, everywhere in Scotland is as good as it can be. If you are as passionate about high-quality care as we are, and you’re experienced in your field, we’d love to hear from you.
About us
As a national scrutiny body that supports improvement. We inspect care services and partnerships across Scotland, report on the quality of care people experience, and support improvements in services to facilitate improvements in outcomes for people.
We inspect care services individually. We also work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people are experiencing in local areas.
We champion high-quality care whenever we encounter it across the thousands of inspections, we carry out each year, and we work closely with all care providers to support them to improve all the time. We collaborate with other organisations too, supporting improvement across public services. Our work plays a big role in reducing health and social inequalities between people and communities.
We are looking for talented people to join us in making a difference - specialists who understand how to put people’s needs, rights and choices at the heart of delivering social services – and how to lead improvement too. Our 600 staff work with services across the public, voluntary and private sectors. We have offices across Scotland and many of our staff work from home.
About you
Whether early or established in your career, you will share our determination that care, social work and justice services should work well for people – every time. You’ll be confident about what good-quality care looks like and how to deliver it. You’ll be good at analysing information and evidence. You will have excellent writing skills for narrative inspection reports that are clear, concise and focused on outcomes. You will be confident in working with a wide range of people and at supporting and advising on improvement.
You’ll currently be working, or have significant experience in, social care, social work, health, children’s services, early learning, child protection, or community learning and development. You will be registered or eligible to register with a professional body like the SSSC, NMC or GTC.
About the role
Our care inspectors work with care services: childminders, nurseries, care homes, care at home, housing support and a host of other specialist services. A specialist in your field, you may have helped lead a service and have a strong track record in delivering quality. You’ll be adept at leading improvement and influencing others. You will work with people experiencing care, and care service providers, managers and staff.
Why join us?
We strive to be a great employer, knowing that competitive salary, leave and pension schemes are only part of that. We pride ourselves on the values we hold, person-centred; fairness; respect; efficiency and integrity - all supported with a culture of care and kindness.
We believe in collective leadership and innovation. You’ll have a lot of autonomy to manage your own work and use the professional skills you’ve honed during your career – but in new ways. Starting on day one, our learning and development support will help you become confident in the craft of scrutiny and in supporting improvement. Because a lot of your role is about sharing effective practice across Scotland, the impact you can have on experiences and outcomes for people is significant. You will draw on management and leadership skills you’ve developed in the past.
We’re proud to be a progressive, supportive employer – we’re happy to talk about flexible working with you and we’re members of the Disability Confident Scheme, aiming to make the most of the talents disabled people can bring to the workplace.
New appointments will normally be placed on the minimum grade for the role; a higher starting salary may be offered in exceptional circumstances only.
ELC expansion
The Scottish Government is committed to expanding the provision of funded Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) from 600 hours to 1140 hours per year by 2020. The expansion of ELC is aimed to support the reduction in the poverty-related attainment gap and improve long term outcomes for children and families.
Due to the ELC expansion programme we are looking for 7 further ELC Inspectors in addition to the “business as usual” Inspector campaign launched recently.
Principles and aims
The priority for the expansion to 1140 hours is to improve children's outcomes and close the poverty-related attainment gap. In addition, the expansion aims to support parents into work, study or training. The Scottish Government's four principles of the ELC expansion are: quality, flexibility, affordability, and accessibility.
The Scottish Government has stated that quality is 'at the heart' of the expansion and that achieving a high-quality ELC experience for children is a key objective.
Use and provision
A 2018 survey found that the main reason why parents use funded ELC is that they consider it beneficial for their child's learning and development. In addition, parents reported using the funded hours to either work, increase the number of hours they work, or look for work.
Funded ELC in Scotland is delivered by a wide range of providers including nurseries, crèches and playgroups, from across the public, private and third sectors. A small number of childminders also deliver funded ELC, but the Scottish Government hopes this number will increase under the expansion to 1140 hours.
Criteria to apply
- We require you to hold a relevant qualification (minimum SCQF Level 9), register with either the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) or any other relevant professional body and undertake PVG checks.
- You must also be prepared to do a Professional Development Award in Scrutiny and Improvement (Social Services) at SCQF level 10 with appropriate support from the organisation.
- You will have a minimum of three years recent and demonstrable management experience in a relevant field. You must also be willing to travel with overnight stays as required.
Before you apply
- Please contact the relevant body directly to resolve any queries you have regarding registration or eligible qualifications for registration (SSSC, NMC and so on) before submitting your application.
- For an informal chat about the job role, please contact (Who?) You or Kim Connolly, Team Manager on 07766133161
- For all other queries, please contact Human Resources at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
To apply
- If you are interested, please see the minimum criteria to apply as an Inspector and the specific guidance and directions to apply. Thereafter, click on the gateway questions link to apply.
- Your completed application form (campaign number C39 only forms) and equal opportunities form should be returned to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.no later than Monday, 14 October 2019 at 8.00am.
- We anticipate that selection days will take place in the week commencing Monday, 18 November 2019.