Salary: £49,710 - £54,975 (Grade 7)

Hours: 35 hours per week 

Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office)

Contract: 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.

We desire 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.

Starting Salary

Please bear in mind that new entrants start on the grade minimum for the role. However, we have a generous benefits package which you will find on our website.

About the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Improvement Advisor (IA) to join the Quality Improvement Support Team (QIST) on a permanent basis.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative and highly motivated individual to support, develop and deliver our improvement interventions in line with, and to support, the implementation of our Quality Improvement and Participation Strategy.

The successful candidate will also be involved in supporting the building of quality improvement capacity and capability, internally and externally. They will also provide quality improvement support as required and will be part of ongoing quality improvement as priorities are identified.

About you

You will possess a recognised qualification in quality improvement methodology and have a good level of experience and a proven track record in leading quality improvement projects/programmes and evaluating their impact.

You will also have experience of providing quality improvement learning and development to a variety of staff groups and care providers.

Demonstrable interpersonal skills including public speaking, the ability to network with key professionals are essential, as are excellent verbal and written communication and organisational skills.

You should be educated to SCQF level 9.

You will be joining an enthusiastic, creative, highly motivated and supportive team and be a key player in taking forward our Improvement Strategy.

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 Aidan McCrory, Quality Improvement Manager at aidan.mccrory @careinspectorate.gov.scot .

If you believe that your skills, experience and motivation make you a suitable candidate for this post, complete the online application form by 08:00 on Monday 17 March 2025.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held [on/no sooner than] 9 April 2025 at our Dundee office office.