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Job profile
Job title: Information Analyst
Responsible to: Senior Intelligence Analyst
Responsible for: Success of the role
Principal working contacts
- Head of Intelligence
- Intelligence and Analysis Manager
- Intelligence team members
- Strategic Inspectors
- Inspection Team Managers
- Information Governance team
- Internal and External Communication teams
- Internal ICT/Digital colleagues
- Managers and employees of the Care Inspectorate
- Analytical and policy colleagues in Scottish Government and other national organisations
Job purpose
The Information Analyst is a technical specialist who is responsible for the production of a variety of cutting edge analytical products that meet professional standards to support the organisation to be risk-based and intelligence led, and for supporting the development and management of data assets to enable this.
Key responsibilities
Intelligence and analysis:
- Produces analytical reports and products to agreed timescales and professional standards.
- Is a highly skilled analyst with considerable expertise in at least some of the following: Intelligence analysis, statistical analysis and reporting; data science, performance analysis and reporting.
- Brings their analytical skills to bear within a complex data environment, with the technical skills to manage and developing data assets in collaboration with colleagues across with organisation.
- Uses expert knowledge of relevant data and analytical techniques to develop and deliver intelligence products that will help the organisation focus on mitigating key risks, and direct our work where it will have greatest impact.
- Adheres to and promotes the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, producing high quality statistical publications which meet the needs of a wide range of users both within the Care Inspectorate and outside.
- Provides advice on statistical and analytical methods and is highly skilled in a range of associated software.
- Develops new and innovative approaches to turning large quantities of operational data into valuable information assets and managing those assets to deliver valuable intelligence products.
- Delivers high quality intelligence products that provide advice and recommendations to decision-makers
Relationship management:
- Builds and maintains strong working relationships with a range of customers, managing customer expectations and ensuring products meet customer requirements.
- Represents the team at a variety of fora, both within the Care Inspectorate and outside, including government departments, the care sector and professional groups.
- Ensures effective working protocols in accordance with the Care Inspectorate’s polices.
- Projects a professional image for the Care Inspectorate when dealing with colleagues and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrates a commitment to the Care Inspectorate’s aims, vision and values and to the Care Inspectorate’s overall objective of improving care in Scotland.
- Demonstrates enthusiasm for delivering excellent customer service.
- Carries out duties in accordance with our Health and Safety policies, procedures, guidance, practices and legislative requirements, taking reasonable care for your safety and that of others who may be affected by what you do or fail to do while at work.
Other duties
This job description is a broad picture of the post at the date of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties and it is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time. Consequently, the post holder will be required to carry out any other duties to the equivalent level that are necessary to fulfil the purpose of the job, and to respond positively to changing business needs.
Person specification
Job title: Service Manager Early Learning and Childcare
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Experience of managing and delivering scrutiny and assurance activity.
- Experience of managing scrutiny and assurance teams operationally.
- Direct experience of supporting improvement and building capacity through self-evaluation.
- Highly skilled and experienced in the ‘art of inspection’.
- Experience of planning scrutiny and assurance programmes, including those delivered in partnership with others.
- Significant experience in social work/social care in children’s services.
- Experience of stakeholder engagement at both a strategic and operational level, particularly during the inspection process, delivering feedback and dealing with challenges to the inspection processes and findings.
- Experience in quality assurance, self-evaluation, performance management and the recruitment, training, development and support of staff.
- Significant experience 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:
- Direct experience of developing and applying quality frameworks to support self-evaluation, scrutiny and improvement.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Appropriate professional qualification.
- Commitment to own CPD.
- A qualification in quality management/ scrutiny and improvement such as EFQM and PSIF.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- The ability to provide leadership and direction to a diverse, multi-disciplinary team of professional staff.
- Demonstrate significant knowledge and direct first hand experience of inspection/regulation of care in a children’s setting.
- Demonstrate significant skills and knowledge of quality assuring inspection processes and reports.
- Demonstrate commitment to the principles of the Public Service 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.
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of working with inspection/regulation of care.
- Knowledge of trends and changes within social work and social care 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.
- Demonstrate understanding of corporate social responsibility, whereby social and environmental concerns are voluntarily integrated to business operations and stakeholder interaction.
- Understanding of, and ability to demonstrate, the management of complex projects.
Key performance outcomes
Leading others
Essential:
- Ability to provide credible and authentic professional leadership, with a clear sense of purpose and direction to effectively lead a key professional function within the Care Inspectorate.
- Ability to effectively deploy staff and other resources to achieve performance objectives.
- Ensure that staff working in inspection in respect of children’s services conduct themselves in accordance with the highest standards of integrity, probity and openness through the implementation of robust corporate governance.
- Demonstrate ability to provide leadership and strategic management direction for multi disciplinary, professional teams and bring together groups from different disciplines/bodies.
Management of resources
Essential:
- Ability to bring together the overall work of a multi-disciplinary team of staff.
- Ability to manage resources in achievement of the Care Inspectorate’s objectives.
- Ability to bring together the overall work of a team of staff, determining the “tone” for a significant area of the organisation’s work and promoting a corporate vision.
- Ability to manage resources in achievement of the Care Inspectorate’s objectives.
Desirable:
- Ability to drive continuous improvement and manage business 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.
Desirable:
- 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:
- Evidence of building positive relationships, engaging and collaborating effectively with others internally and externally.
- Demonstrate personal resilience, being able to work flexibly under to deliver tangible results.
- 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:
- A proven track record of promoting, leading and implementing strategies and change programmes to improve the development and quality of services
- Ability to take account of wider political and organisational sensitivities to deliver strategic objectives.
Objective decision making
Essential:
- The ability to assist the Chief Inspector Early Learning and Childcare Services to set, in consultation with others, the overall agenda, long term objectives and performance standards for the Directorate.
- Demonstrate 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.
Person specification
Job title: Solicitor
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Minimum of two years relevant post qualifying experience, including recent Sheriff Court experience.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Pracitising Certificate issued by the Law Society of Scotland.
- Commitment to own CPD.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- Excellent communication skills - both written and oral.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
- Understanding of Equality and Diversity issues.
- IT literate, demonstrating experience with IT language and processes, using the most effective methods to communicate and manage information.
Key performance outcomes
Effective communication
Essential:
- Clear and concise oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to select appropriate communication style and methods depending on the needs and abilities of the audience.
- Addresses difficult issues so people are kept well informed.
Desirable:
- Articulate and positive communicator.
Flexibility
Essential:
- Is open-minded to suggestions about how to improve processes within the Care Inspectorate.
- Applies regulation and standards sensibly and understands where a flexible approach may be required.
- Exercises professional judgement when considering options and outcomes.
Improvement focus
Essential:
- Uses knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information in order to make appropriate changes and improvements.
- Aware of trends and changes and maintains professional knowledge and skills.
- Encourages and promotes new ideas.
Desirable:
- Rethinks traditional ways of doing things to create opportunities to improve.
Impact and influence
Essential:
- Uses evidence to influence others towards a course of action.
- Builds a network of contracts to increase circle of influence.
- Influences others by example and acts as a professional role model.
- Focuses on key benefits to get message across.
Desirable:
- Anticipates likely objections and builds responses in to arguement/approach.
Objective decision making
Essential:
- Balances the need for careful decision making with the need for action.
- Ensures all options are considered in order to make the right decisions.
- Makes effective decisions based on critical evaluation of all relevant facts and evidence.
- Considers Care Inspectorate values in relation to impact of their decisions.
Please note - these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.
Job profile
Job title: Planning Manager
Responsible for: Planning Co-ordinator
Principal working contacts
- Executive Director of Scrutiny and Assurance
- Chief Inspectors
- Service Managers
- Team Managers
- Strategic Inspectors
- Inspectors
- Business Support staff
- Managers and employees of the Care Inspectorate
- External agencies/service providers/service users and carers
- Education Scotland
Job purpose
To manage and co-ordinate the delivery of national inspection planning across a wide range of social care services and services for children and adults to ensure that the Care Inspectorate makes the best use of its resources and performs effectively and efficiently as an independent scrutiny and improvement body.
Key responsibilities
Strategic management
- In conjunction with the Chief Inspector, develop and manage systems and processes to support effective national inspection planning in order to meet corporate aims and objectives.
- Build and maintain effective partnerships with Education Scotland, Healthcare Improvement Scotland and other scrutiny and improvement partners to support effective and efficient joint inspection planning.
- In conjunction with the Chief Inspector develop and deliver strategies, action plans and targets for inspection planning in support of corporate aims and objectives.
Operational management
- Manage and co-ordinate the effective and efficient delivery of scrutiny and improvement planning activity.
- Manage and maintain scrutiny plans for the current year and draft plans for subsequent years, ensuring inspection planning activities are consistent with the Care Inspectorate’s objectives and targets.
- Ensure that the provision of the inspection and capacity planning information is accurate, up-to-date and reliable for managers and staff throughout the organisation to support the planning and delivery of the Care Inspectorate’s scrutiny and improvement functions.
- Plan and execute the strategic objectives for inspection planning systematically in alignment with the Care Inspectorate’s business objectives.
- Promote continuous improvement in all aspects of inspection and capacity planning, including quality assurance and consistency of practice.
- Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff as required.
- Prepare and present reports to the Chief Inspector, Executive Director of Scrutiny and Assurance or Executive Team as required.
- Deputise for the Chief Inspector and undertake such other duties as may be required by the Executive Director of Scrutiny and Assurance.
People management
- Lead and manage a team, ensuring that they work effectively and efficiently to meet the aims, objectives and targets of Care Inspectorate.
- Provide advice, guidance and support to team members through regular one-to-one supervision, performance development reviews and personal development plans to ensure continuous improvement in their work and support their personal and professional development.
- Coordinate and monitor administrative support to the team
- Promote consistent, high quality practice amongst team members, manage their performance and monitor their standards and behaviour.
- Promote the health, safety and welfare of staff in accordance with Care Inspectorate policies, procedures and guidance.
- Promote diversity and equality of opportunity, ensuring that these principles are upheld across all areas of work.
Relationship management
- As a manager, model corporate behaviour and demonstrate a strong commitment to organisational values.
- Develop effective working relationships within the team and with managers and staff across the organisation ensuring effective collaborative and cross-directorate working.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with partner scrutiny and improvement bodies and other key stakeholders.
- Contribute to the continuous development of the Care Inspectorate and manage change effectively and creatively.
- Promote the work of the Care Inspectorate and raise aware of its work in a positive manner.
- Ensure effective working protocols in accordance with the Care Inspectorate’s Communications, Human Resources, Finance, IT and Operations function.
- Demonstrate a commitment to the Care Inspectorate’s aims, vision and values and to the Care Inspectorate’s overall objective of improving care in Scotland.
- Ensure effective communication of the Care Inspectorate’s work with people who use care services, carers, relatives and advocates.
Other duties
This job may require some travel and may involve some overnight stays and unsocial hours.
This job description is a broad picture of the post at the date of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties and it is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time. Consequently, the post holder will be required to carry out any other duties to the equivalent level that are necessary to fulfil the purpose of the job, and to respond positively to changing business needs.
Person specification
Job title: Finance Officer
Attributes
Experience
Essential:
- Minimum of two years relevant financial experience.
- Demonstrable successful track record in a similar role.
- Experience of working with internal and external contacts at all levels.
Desirable:
- Experience of working in a public sector environment
- Oracle financial systems experience including developing financial statements.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- Finance qualification eg HNC / Association of Accounting Technician (AAT) qualification.
- Candidates without minimum qualification criteria who have significant experience may be considered.
Desirable:
- Degree in a relevant discipline.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel and Word.
- A thorough knowledge of integrated financial accounting systems.
- Understanding of financial controls and financial environment.
- Able to work collaboratively.
- Experience of supporting budget managers in the development and management of their budgets.
- Uses systematic approach to make efficient use of time and manage workload, prioritising own work effectively to meet deadlines and objectives.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills. § Good judgement and decision-making skills.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written information and present results in a clear and concise format.
- Ability to understand the limits of their knowledge and experience and knowing when decisions need to be referred to others.
Desirable:
- Analytical experience of providing statistical data.
- Awareness of sustainability and climate change.
Key performance outcomes
Effective communication
Essential:
- Demonstrate clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.
- Selects appropriate communication style and methods depending on the needs and abilities of the audience.
- Portrays a positive image of the organisation when communicating both inside the organisation and externally.
- Ability to explain complex financial information to a range of audiences including non-specialists.
- Listens to feedback and ideas from others and takes appropriate and considered action.
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.
- Able to work independently as well as collaboratively with a wide range of teams across the Care Inspectorate.
- Develops good working relationships at all levels.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.
Job profile
Job title: Strategic Data Officer
Job location: Flexible
Responsible to: Senior Intelligence Analyst
Principal working contacts
- Head of Risk, Intelligence & Professional Standards
- Service Manger Strategic Scrutiny Adults
- Intelligence and Analysis Manager
- Senior Intelligence Analyst
- Information Analysts
- Office Managers
- Admin Officers
- Inspectors
- Strategic Inspectors
- ICT and Information Governance Coordinator
- Contact Centre colleagues
- Managers and employees of the Care Inspectorate
- External agencies/service providers/service users and carers
Job purpose
To support the delivery of a professional intelligence and analytical function for the Care Inspectorate’s Strategic Inspection programmes.
Key responsibilities
Intelligence research, support and coordination
Support the Intelligence Team to provide analytical support for the Care Inspectorate’s Strategic Inspection programmes which includes:
- The maintenance and development of data collection tools to ensure they meet the needs of the inspection programme
- Carry out sample selection using statistical sampling methods
- Identify and summarise key inspection findings in the form of written and visual analysis reports for both internal and external audiences.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues in both the Intelligence team and wider strategic team to identify and resolve data quality issues and improve the programme’s data collection and reporting process.
- Maintain GDPR compliance when working with confidential and sensitive data
- Provide ongoing advice and support to inspection leads and external colleagues when required.
- Undertake such other duties as may be required.
- Promote diversity and equality of opportunity, ensuring that these principles are upheld across all areas of work.
Relationship management
- Develop effective working relationships with the team and with managers and staff across the organisation and externally ensuring effective collaborative and crossdirectorate working.
- Contribute to the continuous development of the Care Inspectorate and support change effectively and creatively.
- Adhere to effective working protocols in accordance with the Care Inspectorate’s Communications, Human Resources, Finance, IT and Operations function.
- Demonstrate a commitment to the Care Inspectorate’s aims, vision and values and to the Care Inspectorate’s overall objective of improving care in Scotland.
Other duties
This job may require some travel. This job description is a broad picture of the post at the date of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties and it is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time. Consequently, the post holder will be required to carry out any other duties to the equivalent level that are necessary to fulfil the purpose of the job, and to respond positively to changing business needs.
Job profile
Job title: Executive Personal Assistant (PA)
Responsible to: Executive and Committee Support Manager
Principle working contacts
- Chair and Board members
- Chief Executive
- Executive Directors
- Strategic Management Group
- Executive and Committee Support Manager
- Executive PA to the Chief Executive and PAs to Executive Directors
- Scottish Government and other external bodies and partners
Job purpose
- To provide high quality confidential PA support to the Executive Director of Corporate and Customer Services and the Chair of the Care Inspectorate Board
Key accountabilities
- Organise, plan and delegate work appropriately to ensure the provision of efficient and highly confidential PA support to the Executive Director of Corporate and Customer Services and the Chair.
- Check and prioritise all email correspondence and meeting invitations on behalf of the Executive Director and the Chair.
- Develop and administer a system for dealing with enquiries on behalf of the Executive Director and the Chair, including composing responses to routine correspondence.
- Maintain appropriate ways of working for supporting the Executive Director of Corporate and Customer Services, the Chair and Board members.
- Manage and co-ordinate the Executive Director’s and Chair’s diaries, making appointments and arranging meetings, events, booking venues, organising catering and hospitality for visitors as necessary.
- Make travel and accommodation arrangements for the Executive Director and the Chair.
- Prepare agendas and collate, check and distribute paperwork for meetings as required.
- Make seminar/conference and other visit arrangements.
- Maintain and ensure that all types of filing systems, registers and records are up to date, including review and updating of the Board’s Register of Interests.
- Attend meetings as required at our head office and at various locations across Scotland, in order to take notes/minutes and prepare action records.
- Assist the Executive and Committee Support Manager in administrative tasks related to Board and Committee meetings.
- Establish good working relationships in regular communication with other officers of the CareInspectorate, external partners and Scottish Government.
- Assist other members of the Executive and Committee Support team when required.
- Assist in the preparation of PowerPoint presentations/speeches as required.
- Provide PA support cover in the absence of the Executive PA to the Chief Executive.
- Carry out your duties in accordance with our Health and Safety policies, procedures, guidance, practices and legislative requirements, taking reasonable care for your safety and that of others who may be affected by what you do or fail to do while at work.
Relationship management
- Ensure productive and smooth working arrangements and protocols between staff delivering businesssupport and all other Care Inspectorate employees.
- Develop and maintain constructive and co-operative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient executive support.
- DemonstrateacommitmenttotheCareInspectorate’saims,vision and values and to the Care Inspectorate’s overall objective of improving care in Scotland.
- Ensure effective communication of the Care Inspectorate's work with people who use care services, carers, relatives and advocates.
Other duties
This job description is a broad picture of the post at the date of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties and it is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time. Consequently the post holder will be required to carry out any other duties to the equivalent level that are necessary to fulfil the purpose of the job, and to respond positively to changing business needs.
This job may also require some travel to other offices of the Care Inspectorate.
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.