Job title: Chief Inspector Support Assistant
Salary: £27,696 – £30,357
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office) – with expectation of travel to Dundee Head Office for team working requirements
Contract: Temporary until 31 March 2026
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. Our hybrid working policy gives you the flexibility to mix working from home with attendance at your base office and other work locations, spending no more than 60% of your working time working from home, measured over a 4-week period.
About the role
We are recruiting for one Chief Inspector Support Assistant on a temporary contract to cover maternity leave up until 31 March 2026. This postholder will provide a PA role in supporting the Chief Inspector for Strategic Scrutiny and their Service Managers. Their work focuses on the scrutiny, assurance and improvement of services provided by local authority social work services and partnerships.
Their teams look at services for children and families, adults and older people and people involved with the justice system. They explore how adults’ and children’s rights are promoted and upheld, the extent to which they are enabled to exercise choice and control in how their support is provided, and the outcomes they experience.
Reporting to the Executive Support Officer, you will be part of a small team of Chief Inspector Support Assistants and part of the wider Executive and Committee Support team.
Duties will be varied and include prioritising correspondence, dealing with internal and external enquiries, composing responses to routine correspondence, managing diaries, making appointments, and arranging travel, accommodation, meetings, conference rooms, and hospitality for visitors as necessary.
Having excellent planning and organisational skills, you will be expected to co-ordinate the administrative process for Scottish Government briefings and adhering to strict deadline requirements.
The role will also include the preparation and circulation of agendas and paperwork for meetings, attendance at internal and external meetings, taking notes and action records, monitoring the shared mailbox and dealing with any tasks required, formatting documents for high level management meetings, maintaining staff list spreadsheets and assisting in the design and preparation of PowerPoint presentations as and when required.
About you
You will have experience of providing business support to senior management in a fast-paced change environment. You are highly organised and able to plan and manage your time and workstreams efficiently and effectively. You understand that priorities and deadlines can change quickly, and you respond flexibly and effectively.
You will have a proactive approach and be confident in using your own initiative. Your attention to detail is meticulous and you have a clear commitment to maintaining high standards. You are a great team worker and able to build and maintain good working relationships.
You will have excellent word processing and IT skills with experience of Microsoft applications, including a good working knowledge of Excel. You will also have experience of diary management and taking detailed notes or minutes.
Next steps
You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification.
If you would like more information or an informal chat about the role please contact recruitment team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., please include a contact telephone number and times that would be best to reach you in your email.
If you believe that you are a suitable candidate for this post, please complete the online application form by no later than by 08:00 on Monday 19 May 2025.
It is anticipated that interviews will take place on from 29 May 2025 at our Dundee office.