Job title: Business Support Assistant (Corporate Support)
Location: Dundee HQ
Salary: £24,561 to £27,171
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract:
- 1 x Temporary to 31 October 2026
- 1 x Permanent
About us
We are the national regulator and scrutiny body responsible for providing assurance and protection for people who experience care services, their families, carers and the wider public, as well as supporting delivery partners to improve the quality of care for people in Scotland. Our vision is that people across Scotland experience high quality care that meets their needs, rights and choices.
We are a scrutiny body that supports improvement. We inspect individual care services, and we also work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people are experiencing in their local areas.
Our desire is to achieve an effective and balanced way of working, that enables us to meet organisational needs and achieve a work-life balance that promotes wellbeing and collaboration opportunities. We are moving towards the expectation that all staff will work collaboratively, within and across teams, in person, for approximately 40% of their working week.
Starting salary
New entrants will start on the grade minimum for the role. However, we have a generous total rewards package, which you can find more about on our website.
About the role
We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity to work as part of the Corporate Support team at our headquarters in Dundee where you will provide comprehensive business support as part of the Corporate Services Directorate. Duties will be varied and include the provision of administrative support to heads of service and corporate teams across the organisation as well as general office support such as reception cover, purchase order processing and stationery control.
About you
We are looking for organised individuals who have good attention to detail, are customer-focused and enjoy working in a busy environment and within supportive teams. You will have a positive attitude and be keen to develop your skills and take on new challenges.
Successful candidates will demonstrate experience and a successful record of accomplishment within a similar role and be educated to SCQF level 5.
The successful individuals will have:
- A good working knowledge of Microsoft packages to include O365, Outlook; MS Forms; Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- A flexible, positive approach to work and accommodate changing business needs.
- Ability to prioritise conflicting demands and meet deadlines.
- Ability to forward plan and anticipate any operational difficulties.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to use initiative and prioritise own workload.
In addition, it would be desirable that you have experience of working with a range of external and internal contacts at various levels of an organisation and within an office environment.
To apply
You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification.
If you require any further information please email the recruitment team (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
You can visit our website to see the benefits of working with us. Please note that these posts need to be located at our Headquarters in Dundee due to the nature of the tasks involved.
If you believe that your ability and motivation, make you suitable for this post, please complete our online application by no later than 08:00 on Monday 22 September 2025.
It is expected that interviews for this post will take place on Thursday 2 October 2025 at our Dundee office.