Job title: Inspection Planning Manager – Workforce Planning and Data

Salary: £38,553 - £42,597

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office)

Contract: Temporary for up to 12 months

About the role

Due to a period of absence, a temporary vacancy has arisen within our Planning Team. In this demanding and challenging role, you will manage and co-ordinate the delivery of national inspection planning across a wide range of social care services and services for children and adults to ensure that the Care Inspectorate makes the best use of its resources and performs effectively and efficiently as an independent scrutiny and improvement body.

This will include the management, co-ordination of inspection activities and national and team plans for the current year and draft plans for subsequent years, ensuring inspection planning activities are consistent with the Care Inspectorate’s objectives and targets.

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 are moving towards an expectation that all staff will work collaboratively, within and across teams, in person, for approximately 40% of their working week.

About you

The successful applicant will have an operational background in workforce planning activities, systems and processes, together with workload planning and prioritisation knowledge.

You will be educated to SCQF Level 5 and, ideally hold a relevant qualification at SCQF Level 6 or 7. You will have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate a broad level of knowledge of working within inspection/regulation of care and associated IT systems, such as Work Management Tools, Microsoft Excel and Power BI, alongside the ability to translate plans into action.

Next steps

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

If you would like more information or an informal chat see the full advert on our website. 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 our online application form by 08:00 on Monday 10 June 2024*.

*Please note that if we receive a sufficient number of applications, the advert may close earlier on Monday 3 June.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held at either our Dundee or Stirling office no sooner than 19 June 2024 (or after 12 June 2024 if the advert closes earlier).