Payment of PVG and Enhanced Disclosure Checks - Childminders
The Care Inspectorate can confirm, that PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups) checks for Childminders and Enhanced Disclosure checks will be carried out free, until 31 March 2012.
Performance Improvement Handbook 2011-12 for local authority social work inspection
The handbook that SCSWIS uses for its inspection of local authority social work services has now been published on our website.
Person specification
Job title: Information Analyst
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Providing a professional service with a significant level of autonomy
- Using a range of analytical methods to gain insight from complex data
- Apply coding skills to access and manipulate large volumes of data from a variety of sources as well as identifying data inconsistencies and ensuring data quality
- Experience in some of the following:
- statistical analysis and reporting
- data science
- intelligence analysdata management
Desirable:
- Developing data standards and definitions
- Official statistics production
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- Educated to SCQF Level 9 (with a subject that includes a significant numeric component)
- Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
Desirable:
- Intelligence Analysis qualification
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- Advanced data, statistical and analytical skills
- Experienced user of statistical, query and data management software for ETL and reporting purposes (e.g. SAS, SPSS, SQL, DAX, R, Python)
- Previous use of business Intelligence tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableaux)
- Excellent data management and manipulation skills
- Understanding of data quality issues and validation techniques.
Desirable:
- GIS Software
- Research experience
- Knowledge of relevant national data sources including open data
- Public Sector / social care experience
- Code of Practice for Official Statistics
Key performance outcomes
Effective communication
Essential:
- Articulate and positive communicator on a 1-1 basis and in larger groups;
- Ability to express complex 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 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: Software Developer
Attributes
Experience
Essential
- Experienced in software development, working across the entire software development cycle, using a variety of software design patterns.
- Ability to plan, execute, track and report on delivery progress against requirements.
- Knowledge of the Microsoft.Net framework and web development, including HTML, JavaScript and MVC.
- Experienced in designing and implementing relational databases in MS SQL Server.
- Competent in cloud architecture and technologies. § Experienced in continuous improvement of development, integration and delivery processes.
- Experienced in Agile methodologies § Experience of working as part of an agile software delivery team.
- Experience of providing customer support for in-house developed software solutions.
Desirable
- Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate.
- NET development using C# and Visual Studio.
- ASP.NET development using MVC 4/5.
- Web application frameworks such as Knockout JS.
- Web services, including creation and consumption of WCF and Web API services.
- Microsoft Entity Framework, Linq and LinqToSQL.
- Source Control Management systems.
- Cloud technologies, such as MS Azure or AWS.
- Continuous Integration and Deployment using Devops or similar.
- Unit testing frameworks such as Visual Studio and NUnit.
- Code quality tools and frameworks such as ReSharper.
- MSBI.
- Experience with test management tools and scripting ITIL.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential
Educated to degree level in Computer Sciences/Software Development, equivalent or relevant experience.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Ability to work with customers and other developers to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet customer needs and business needs.
- Analytical and trouble shooting skills.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to interact well with both technical and non-technical individuals and groups.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet targets.
- Knowledge of trends and changes in social care.
- Ability to work at a high level of accuracy.
- Knowledge of software testing and quality assurance and its role in delivering excellent software solutions.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a geographically dispersed agile software delivery team.
Competencies/key performance outcomes
Effective communication
- Ability to communicate with stakeholders across all levels of the business.
- Ability to prepare written communication to a high standard.
- Ability to form constructive working relationships with people at all levels in the organisation.
Team working
- Values and makes use of the skills, knowledge and experience of others.
- Works co-operatively and supportively with others sharing knowledge and experience where appropriate.
Planning and organising
- Focuses on customer needs and satisfaction.
- Sets high standards for quality and quantity.
- Works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way.
Flexibility
- Works productively in a high-pressure environment and copes well with set backs.
- Adapts to changing circumstances.
- Accepts new ideas and change initiatives.
- Adapts interpersonal style to suit different people or situations.
Improvement focus
- Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.
- Ability to use knowledge and experience to consolidate information to make appropriate improvements.
- Demonstrate initiative, drive and determination to complete tasks and achieve objectives.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.
Perth and Kinross Scrutiny Report
We have now published our scrutiny report on Perth and Kinross Council's delivery of social work services.
Preventing Harm from Transdermal Opioid Patch Preparations - Flash Report
Transdermal opioid patches are increasingly used for management of pain but inappropriate use has contributed to adverse events in various settings.
Preventing Infection in Care
A new SCSWIS and NHS Education for Scotland free educational resource to improve the knowledge and skills of carers in infection prevention and control has been launched.
Protecting Vulnerable Groups - Sector-based work academies and student placements
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has created a range of employment programmes and schemes.