About the role

The Improvement Adviser (digital social care) is an exciting new role, aimed at strengthening the use of technology to improve outcomes for people. Working alongside the senior improvement adviser (Digital social care), the post sits within the Care Inspectorate’s Quality Improvement Support team (QIST). The role is funded until the end of August 25 with the possibility of an extension. The role can also be taken as a secondment from your substantive post.

About you

You will be educated to SCQF Level 9 (Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework), and ideally have the NES Scottish Improvement Leader (ScIL) programme (or working towards or willing to work towards) or an equivalent improvement science qualification. You will have excellent communication skills, adept at developing relationships with a wide range of people both internal and external to the Care Inspectorate. You will be passionate about improving outcomes for people, and able to demonstrate your experience of leading quality improvement projects and evaluating their impact. You will have a strong interest in digital technology, understanding its role in supporting people’s rights in a social care context.

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. We work with the expectation that all staff will work collaboratively, within and across teams, in person (in an office or other work locations such as at an inspection), for 40% of their working week. 

Our Headquarters are located in Dundee and due to the nature of delivery, it may be required to travel to Dundee or other Care Inspectorate offices.

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 Nicky Cronin via email.

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 application form submit it to Recruitment mailbox by Monday 9 September 2024 at 08:00.

To assist us to monitor the effectiveness of our equality and diversity practices, we would encourage you to complete our equal opportunities monitoring form as part of our application process.

The interviews will preferably take place in person on the 26 September in our Stirling office.