Chief Inspector Support Assistant
Job title: Chief Inspector Support Assistant
Salary: £27,696 – £30,357
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office) – with expectation of travel to Dundee Head Office for team working requirements
Contract: Temporary until 31 March 2026
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.
About the role
We are recruiting for one Chief Inspector Support Assistant on a temporary contract to cover maternity leave up until 31 March 2026. This postholder will provide a PA role in supporting the Chief Inspector for Strategic Scrutiny and their Service Managers. Their work focuses on the scrutiny, assurance and improvement of services provided by local authority social work services and partnerships.
Their teams look at services for children and families, adults and older people and people involved with the justice system. They explore how adults’ and children’s rights are promoted and upheld, the extent to which they are enabled to exercise choice and control in how their support is provided, and the outcomes they experience.
Reporting to the Executive Support Officer, you will be part of a small team of Chief Inspector Support Assistants and part of the wider Executive and Committee Support team.
Duties will be varied and include prioritising correspondence, dealing with internal and external enquiries, composing responses to routine correspondence, managing diaries, making appointments, and arranging travel, accommodation, meetings, conference rooms, and hospitality for visitors as necessary.
Having excellent planning and organisational skills, you will be expected to co-ordinate the administrative process for Scottish Government briefings and adhering to strict deadline requirements.
The role will also include the preparation and circulation of agendas and paperwork for meetings, attendance at internal and external meetings, taking notes and action records, monitoring the shared mailbox and dealing with any tasks required, formatting documents for high level management meetings, maintaining staff list spreadsheets and assisting in the design and preparation of PowerPoint presentations as and when required.
About you
You will have experience of providing business support to senior management in a fast-paced change environment. You are highly organised and able to plan and manage your time and workstreams efficiently and effectively. You understand that priorities and deadlines can change quickly, and you respond flexibly and effectively.
You will have a proactive approach and be confident in using your own initiative. Your attention to detail is meticulous and you have a clear commitment to maintaining high standards. You are a great team worker and able to build and maintain good working relationships.
You will have excellent word processing and IT skills with experience of Microsoft applications, including a good working knowledge of Excel. You will also have experience of diary management and taking detailed notes or minutes.
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 recruitment team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 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 online application form by no later than by 08:00 on Monday 19 May 2025.
It is anticipated that interviews will take place on from 29 May 2025 at our Dundee office.
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Personal Assistant to the Interim Executive Director of Transformation, ICT & Digital
Location: Dundee
Salary: £22,425 - £23,964
Contract: Temporary until 31 March 2022 – potential for extension
About the role
The Care Inspectorate is a scrutiny body that supports improvement in care. Our vision is that people across Scotland receive high quality care that meets their needs, rights and choices. We are a national organisation, employing in excess of 600 staff working across our network of offices and from home.
Reporting to the Executive Support Officer, you will be responsible for providing an efficient and effective confidential tailored support service to the interim Director of Transformation, ICT and Digital.
This role will include organising and preparing documents, preparation of meeting papers and taking minutes for specific directorate meetings together with composing routine correspondence, diary management and arranging travel and accommodation. In addition, you will be required to develop and administer a system for dealing with enquiries, recording, acknowledging receipt of and re-directing letters and monitoring progress of responses with limited direction.
You will be an excellent organiser and communicator with proactive and friendly inter-personal skills together with a multi-tasking ability and flexible approach, working well under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
You will have excellent word processing and IT skills with experience of Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and experience of diary management and minute taking.
You can find out more about the role in the person specification, job profile and job advert.
Next steps
If you believe that your expertise and motivation make you suitable for this post, please complete an application and return by email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 8am on Wednesday 14 April 2021. Interviews will be held by Teams video call on Wednesday 21 April 2021.
If you require any further information, or for an informal chat, please contact Claire Corbett (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) Please note that initially you will be required to work from home due to the current covid situation.
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Awards and charters
We are a Disability Confident employer committed to inclusion and diversity within our workplace.
The Disability Confident scheme helps employers recruit and retain great people, and to:
- challenge attitudes and increase understanding of disability
- draw from the widest possible pool of talent
- secure high-quality staff who are skilled, loyal and hard working
- improve employee morale and commitment by demonstrating fair treatment
It also helps identify those employers who are committed to inclusion and diversity in the workplace.
The scheme has 3 levels designed to support employers on their Disability Confident journey, these are:
- Disability Confident Committed (Level 1)
- Disability Confident Employer (Level 2)
- Disability Confident Leader (Level 3)
We actively encourage applications from people with a disability by offering an interview, where the candidate meets the minimum criteria for the job. The criteria can be found on the person specification for each vacancy we advertise.
We are members of Happy to Translate (HTT) - a national scheme which enables organisations to engage effectively with customers who speak little or no English.
Members are inclusive organisations that are committed to making their services available to all. Guidelines help members to embed an ethos of cultural awareness and sensitivity in every aspect of their communications so that customers are not marginalised as a result of language barriers.
HTT tools and processes equip staff with the skills and knowledge needed to communicate with those who speak little or no English.
Our LGBT Charter Group works to support us to be an inclusive employer.
We develop policies and procedures that engage with the LGBT community across Scotland. They tell us about the care services they experience.
Our purpose is to deliver the action plan from our Equality Outcomes and Mainstreaming Report. We are focused on promoting LGBT:
- Equality
- Diversity
- Inclusion
The real Living Wage is an independently calculated rate based on the cost of living and is paid voluntarily by employers.
The rate is calculated annually by The Resolution Foundation on an analysis of the wage that employees need to earn in order to afford the basket of goods required for a decent standard of living. This basket of goods includes housing, childcare, transport and heating costs.
Living Wage Scotland was established in April 2014 with the aim of increasing the number of employers in Scotland who are recognised for paying their staff the real Living Wage. Hosted by The Poverty Alliance, Living Wage Scotland works in partnership with the Living Wage Foundation and is funded by the Scottish Government.
We recognise and are committed to the Living Wage. Being an accredited Living Wage employer demonstrates us as a responsible employer to our staff and networks.
We are committed to being a LGBTQ+ leader, creating an environment where all our employees can flourish and be free to be themselves.
Please find more information on Stonewall Diversity here.
We have been accredited by Investors in Young People (IiYP) – This is a National Award that recognises the important work that organisations do in assisting young people aged 5 to 25 gain employability skills and who assist them into the world of work.
The IiYP Award recognises and celebrates the important work that the Care Inspectorate has invested in to help young people prepare for future employment and assist them in making their career choice.
Investors in Young People is the only people management standard that focuses on an employer’s recruitment and retention of young people. We are committed to working closely with Skills Development Scotland to offer modern apprenticeship. This represents a true commitment as an employer to the training and development of young people.
The Plain English Campaign recognise organisations and individuals who have genuinely made an effort to present themselves using clear and concise English. Our organisation is committed to providing public information as clear as possible.
Our organisation is committed to providing an environment where people who are bereaved feel supported by the people around them.
Scotland’s first Bereavement Charter for Children and Adults was launched in April 2020. The Care Inspectorate are proud to have been involved alongside other organisations in the development of the Bereavement Charter.
It contains thirteen statements which describe what the best bereavement care and support should look like. It has been developed to support individuals and communities who struggle with the death of someone they know or someone in their community. The charters is designed to help us understand not only the importance of bereavement support, but what that support needs to look like and attempts to describe what good bereavement support can look like and what difference it can make. It is hoped that the Charter will help us as a nation become more effective at supporting people to grieve.
Please find more information about the Bereavement Charter here.
We are proud to announce that we are an Established Carers Positive organisation. We are committed to providing a working environment where carers are valued and supported. Carer Positive is funded by the Scottish Government award that is awarded to employers who can provide evidence that they meet criteria in five areas.
- Identification of carers
- Policy
- Workplace support
- Communication, awareness raising and training
- Peer support
Please find more information about Carer Positive here.
Committed to discussing alternative working patterns.
Please find more information about happy to talk flexible working here.
We are committed to working with partner organisations to connect 16-24 years olds with opportunities within our workforce.
The Young Person’s Guarantee aims to connect every 16 to 24 year old in Scotland to an opportunity. This could be a job, apprenticeship, further or higher education, training or volunteering. It could also be an enterprise opportunity.
We recognise our vital role in creating opportunities for Young People as they prepare for and take their first steps into the world of work.
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Solicitor
Job title: Solicitor
Salary: £49,710 – £54,975
Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office)
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Temporary (maternity cover to 30 August 2026)
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
Due to a period of maternity leave, reporting to the head of legal services, you will have the opportunity to play an influential role in the regulation and improvement of care services. You will provide legal advice to operational staff within the Care Inspectorate. You will provide legal support for a wide range of team based corporate projects and contribute to the development of policy and guidance. You will also undertake some appearance work, representing the Care Inspectorate at court hearings and inquiries.
About you
The ideal candidate will be confident, articulate and have excellent communication skills. You will have at least 2 years’ post qualifying experience but could be an experienced solicitor interested in a challenging and varied post. You should have Sheriff Court experience, preferably in relation to statutory licensing or regulatory matters and you will hold, or be entitled to hold, a full Practising Certificate issued by the Law Society of Scotland.
If you don’t meet the full two years of relevant post-qualifying experience but believe you meet the remaining essential criteria, we may still consider your application. However, please note that this post is not suitable for assignations or traineeships.
To apply
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 Kenneth McClure, head of legal services via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. including a contact telephone number and times that would be best to reach you, where appropriate.
If you believe that you are a suitable candidate for this post, please complete our online application form by 08:00 on Monday 9 June 2025.
We expect interviews to take place in the week commencing 16 June 2025.
We are looking for the successful candidate to be available to start on Monday 14 July, subject to our standard pre-employment checks.
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