Contract Type: Fixed Term (18 months)

Full time 9am-5pm Monday-Friday (35 hours per week)

Secondments considered

Location: Edinburgh

Salary scale: Band 4 (£42,781 – £57,979), starting salary is normally offered at the beginning of the scale

Benefits: 40.5 days of annual leave (including public holidays), Flexible working arrangements, Civil Service Pension Scheme arrangements, Life Assurance scheme, Employee Assistance Programme

Our Complaints Reviewers play a key role in our work, analysing and resolving complaints across a wide range of sectors including councils, NHS, housing associations, most water and sewerage providers, the Scottish Government and its agencies and departments, colleges and universities, prisons, and most Scottish public bodies.

To be successful in this role, you will have a lively analytical mind and the sound judgement needed to make fair, consistent and just decisions. You will be able to demonstrate first class customer service through your empathetic but impartial approach. Your excellent communication skills will enable you to effectively liaise with complainants, bodies under our jurisdiction, MSPs and other stakeholder groups and to draft reports that are often complex and detailed. You must have previous complaints handling and/or dispute resolution experience and ideally you will have experience of one or more of the Ombudsman’s areas of jurisdiction.

If you are interested in joining an organisation that enjoys challenge and strives for continuous improvement, please visit our website for an application pack.

Closing date: 14:00 on 24 April 2024

Interview and Assessment: Between 7 May 2024 – 14 May 2024 with interviews being carried out on MS Teams

All applicants will be notified of the outcome of applications after 30 April 2024.

Please note we regret that we are unable to consider applicants previously unsuccessful at interview.

Equal Opportunities Statement:

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities and in particular those that are currently under represented in our workforce. This includes, but is not limited to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and in the service provided to complainants. No job applicant, staff member or person receiving a service from us will receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender, marital status, or racial grounds or on grounds of disability, age, sexual orientation, language or social origin, or of other personal attributes including beliefs or opinions, such as religious beliefs or political opinions.

We are totally opposed to discrimination. We are committed to conducting the business in a way that is fair to all sections of the community. This may mean taking positive steps to ensure equal opportunities for staff involved in staff selection, staff management and service delivery.