Strategic Data Officer

Hours: 35 hours per week 

Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office) 

Contract: Temporary until 31st July 2025 

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.  

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 

This is a national role and an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to use their current IT skills and develop new analytical and data skills to make a real difference for people experiencing care across Scotland. You will support the Intelligence team in delivering key analytical support to our strategic inspection programmes, working closely with a multi-disciplinary team of Care Inspectorate colleagues and those from external agencies.  

You will support the Intelligence team in providing an analytical function throughout the inspection process through the improvement and maintenance of data collection tools and by identifying and summarising key inspection findings and preparing accurate statistical reports for a range of internal and external audiences. 

About you  

You should be educated to SCQF level 7. 

The Intelligence Team will offer training and support for the specialist software and skills required for this role. However, you will need to be confident working with raw data and comfortable working with Microsoft Excel. The successful candidate will pay close attention to detail in order to clean and validate data and identify opportunities to improve data quality.  

As well as having good literacy skills, you will have an aptitude for working with facts and figures to a high degree of accuracy.  Excellent IT skills are a pre-requisite, enabling you to present complex information in a meaningful way. 

You will be expected to work with colleagues across the Care Inspectorate and other external organisations, and so must have excellent interpersonal skills and be prepared to develop a sound understanding of the inspection data to respond effectively to the requirements of the role.  

Next Steps 

You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification. 

If you believe that your skills, experience and motivation make you a suitable candidate for this post, please complete the online application form by 08:00 on Monday 9 December 2024. CVs will not be accepted.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held Wednesday 18 December 2025 at our Dundee office..