Team Manager – Adults and Early Learning and Childcare (ELC)

Location: Any Care Inspectorate office across mainland Scotland

Salary: £48,453 – £53,502 (140 hours over 4 weeks)

Contract: Adults - permanent or secondment ELC - temporary for 18 months

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 registered care services and work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people, including children and young people and their families, are experiencing in local areas.

We champion high quality care whenever we encounter it across the thousands of scrutiny activities, 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.

The Care Inspectorate is developing flexible, proportionate scrutiny and assurance practices and integrated scrutiny and improvement activities that focus on and foster a culture of innovation and to support world class care that makes a real and positive difference to people’s lives.

We operate in an emerging landscape of tighter financial constraints, technological advances, increasing societal expectations, significant demographic changes, and far-reaching legislative and social policy changes. We are looking for talented people to join us in making a difference in this challenging landscape - who understand how to put people’s needs, rights and choices at the heart of delivering social services and how to lead improvement too.

About the role

We are looking for a team manager in ELC to backfill a secondment and two team managers in Adults who have been successful in other roles to further develop their careers. This is an exciting opportunity for you to try something different. If you are improvement focussed, confident, and have a passion to make a real difference through registration then this role may be for you. Our team managers support their team of inspectors to manage their workload, consider risk factors and maximise performance. Team managers work closely with our inspection and complaints teams to ensure effective regulation of care services. Team managers have a relationship manager role with a number of local authorities and national providers. They are expected to take part in and keep up to date with national initiatives and development to support the work of the team. Team managers also provide professional development to the team of inspectors that they manage.

About you

You will be educated to degree level or equivalent and hold an appropriate professional qualification and be committed to your own continuous professional development. You should have significant experience of operational scrutiny activity and professional regulatory practice within early learning and childcare, or other relevant sectors. You will have experience of implementing improvements and managing change. You will need to be able to provide leadership and direction to a diverse team of professional staff. You will need to demonstrate a significant knowledge of working with inspection and regulation of care as well as a commitment to the principles of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 and the principles of better regulation.

All new entrants will start on the grade minimum for the role however we have a generous benefits package which is outlined on the recruitment section of our website.

To apply

You’ll find more information in the:

• job profile
• person specification
• job advert

For an informal chat about the job role, please contact the HR team at recruitment@careinspectorate.gov.scot and a member of the team will arrange for you to receive a call back.

If you believe that your expertise, skills and motivation make you suitable for this post, please complete an application form (and an Equalities Monitoring Form where you are an external applicant) and return by email to recruitment@careinspectorate.gov.scot no later than 8.00am on Monday, 17 January 2022.

It is anticipated that interviews and selection will take place no earlier than week commencing Monday, 7 February 2022.