Role: Safe Staffing Adviser – Safe Staffing Programme
Location: Any Care Inspectorate office (hybrid working is currently trialled)
Salary: £45,102 - £49,881 plus excellent benefits
Hours: 140 hours over 4 weeks
Contract: Temporary / Secondment until 31 March 2024
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.
About the role
The Health & Care (Staffing) (Scotland) 2019 legislation will impact on social care services that support children and adults when it is enacted in April 2024.
We are commissioned by Scottish Government to promote safe, high-quality services and appropriate staffing across all social care settings. We are looking to recruit Safe Staffing Advisers to join our Safe Staffing Programme.
The programme team works with key partners to provide support to care services, and the Care Inspectorate, in preparation for changes to the statutory basis for the provision of appropriate staffing in all care settings.
We are looking for experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated social care professionals to support this national programme. If you are passionate about supporting quality improvement for people experiencing or working in care services, we want to hear from you.
About you
You will bring an improvement perspective, be confident and have the ability to build relationships and influence others.
Educated to degree level, you will have experience of working within children or adult care services. The diversity of our work requires an adaptable approach that can be applied to any setting including early learning and childcare, children and young people and adult services.
You will also have experience in successfully using improvement tools and methods and have excellent communication skills.
You will be experienced in developing, supporting and delivering learning to a variety of groups and individuals is preferable.
You understand the importance of involving people experiencing care in quality improvement initiatives.
To apply
You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification.
If you would like any further information, or an informal chat, please contact Stephanie Thom, Programme Team Lead via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Please download and complete an application form and an equalities monitoring form and return by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by no later than 8am on Monday 5 June 2023.
It is anticipated that interviews will take place on Wednesday 21 June 2023.