Person specification
Job title: Information Analyst
Attributes
Experience
Essential
- Providing a professional service with a significant level of autonomy.
- Using a range of analytical methods to gain insight from complex data.
- Apply coding skills to access and manipulate large volumes of data from a variety of sources as well as identifying data inconsistencies and ensuring data quality.
- Experience in some of the following:
- statistical analysis and reporting
- intelligence analysis
- data management. - Experience in working with internal and external partners at all levels.
- Experience in presenting complex information and analysis to a range of different audiences.
Desirable
- Developing data standards and definitions.
- Official statistics production.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential
- Educated to Degree level (SCQF Level 9) with a significant numeric component.
- Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development.
Desirable
Intelligence Analysis qualification.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Advanced data, statistical and analytical skills.
- Competent and experienced user of MS packages.
- Experienced user of statistical, query and data management software for ETL and reporting purposes (e.g. SAS, SQL, DAX, R, Python).
- Previous use of business Intelligence tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableaux).
- Excellent data management and manipulation skills.
- Understanding of data quality issues and validation techniques.
Desirable
- Research experience.
- Knowledge of relevant national data sources including open data.
- Public Sector / social care experience.
- Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
- Qualitative data analysis.
Key performance outcomes
Effective communication
Essential
- Articulate and positive communicator on a 1-1 basis and in larger groups.
- Ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely and to adapt communication to suit different audiences.
Impact and influence
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to influence at all levels.
- Ability to give realistic advice, based on relevant, up to date and verifiable information.
- Evidence of building positive relationships, engaging and collaborating effectively with others internally and externally.
Improvement focus
Essential
- Identifies gaps in information and makes appropriate suggestions for improvements.
- Aware of trends and changes and maintains professional knowledge and skills.
- Listens to feedback and ideas and takes considered and appropriate action.
- Uses knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information in order to make appropriate changes and improvements.
- Ability and willingness to learn new skills quickly.
Objective decision making
Essential
- Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.
- Ability to make appropriate and realistic judgments, based on professional expertise, relevant, up to date and verifiable information.
- Ability to analyse complex information.
Planning and organisation
Essential
- Involves others where appropriate and optimises resources to achieve desired results.
- Regularly reviews joint goals and targets and reprioritises where necessary.
- Recognises the need to be flexible in order to meet changing priorities.
- Ability to manage workloads under pressure to tight deadlines.
Team working
Essential
- Contributes to and supports the work and decisions of the team.
- Contributes to the shared vision and purpose and shares this effectively.
- Works collaboratively with a wide range of teams across the Care Inspectorate and external colleagues.
- Willingness to share expertise and knowledge with colleagues.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.
Successful applicants will be assessed against all the performance indicators used in the Performance Development Review System once established in the role.
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Job profile
Job Title: Information Analyst
Job Location: Flexible
Responsible to: Senior Intelligence Analyst
Principal Working Contacts
- Head of Data and Information
- Intelligence and Analysis Manager
- Intelligence team members
- Safe Staffing Team
- Strategic Inspectors
- Inspection Team Managers
- Information Governance team
- Internal and External Communication teams
- Internal ICT/Digital colleagues
- Managers and employees of the Care Inspectorate
- Analytical and policy colleagues in Scottish Government and other national organisations
Job Purpose
The Information Analyst is an analytical and technical specialist who is responsible for the production of a variety of analytical products that meet professional standards to support the organisation to be risk-based and intelligence led, and for supporting the development and management of data assets to enable this.
Key Responsibilities:
Intelligence and Analysis
• Produces analytical reports and products to agreed timescales and professional standards.
• Is a highly skilled analyst with considerable expertise in at least some of the following: Intelligence analysis, statistical analysis and reporting; data science, performance analysis and reporting.
• Brings their analytical skills to bear within a complex data environment, with the technical skills to manage and developing data assets in collaboration with colleagues both internally and externally.
• Uses expert knowledge of relevant data and analytical techniques to develop and deliver intelligence products that will help the organisation focus on mitigating key risks, and direct our work where it will have greatest impact.
• Adheres to and promotes the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, producing high quality statistical publications which meet the needs of a wide range of users both within the Care Inspectorate and outside.
• Provides advice on statistical and analytical methods and is highly skilled in a range of associated software.
• Develops new and innovative approaches to turning large quantities of operational data into valuable information assets and managing those assets to deliver valuable intelligence products.
• Delivers high quality intelligence products that provide advice and recommendations to decision-makers.
Relationship Management
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with a range of customers, managing customer expectations and ensuring products meet customer requirements.
• Represents the team at a variety of fora, both within the Care Inspectorate and outside, including government departments, the care sector and professional groups.
• Excellent communicator who is confident in collaborating with stakeholders and presenting key analysis and findings to both internal and external audiences.
• Ensures effective working protocols in accordance with the Care Inspectorate’s policies, with colleagues across the organisation and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrates enthusiasm for delivering excellent customer service.
• Demonstrates a commitment to the Care Inspectorate’s aims, vision and values and to the Care Inspectorate’s overall objective of improving care in Scotland.
• Carries out duties in accordance with our Health and Safety policies, procedures, guidance, practices and legislative requirements, taking reasonable care for your safety and that of others who may be affected by what you do or fail to do while at work.
Other Duties
This job will require some travel.
This job description is a broad picture of the post at the date of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties and it is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time. Consequently, the post holder will be required to carry out any other duties to the equivalent level that are necessary to fulfil the purpose of the job, and to respond positively to changing business needs.
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Accountant
Job title: Accountant
Salary: £38,553 - £42,597
Location: Flexible – any Care Inspectorate office
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
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 the role
We have a permanent vacancy for an Accountant within our busy Finance and Corporate Governance Department within the Accounting Team.
Working in a busy team you will:
- lead, manage and provide professional advice to the accounting team
- compile financial information and support budget managers in the management of their budgets
- prepare monthly budget monitoring reports for senior managers and the Board as required
- help compile the Care Inspectorate annual budgets
- assist in the production of the Care Inspectorate statutory annual accounts
- prepare financial reports
- review monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- compile information for financial or statistical returns
- play a key role in ensuring resources are managed as efficiently and effectively as possible
- train and develop finance and non-finance staff.
- assist in other financial activities, such as monthly payroll and cashflow.
About you
To succeed in this role, you will ideally have the following:
- a degree level qualification
- membership of the Association of Accounting Technicians or part qualification with a Committee of Consultative Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) or equivalent, or a commitment to work towards this.
- strong financial management experience with the ability to generate, identify and interrogate financial data to support decision making.
- strong analytical skills with the ability to analyse complex data, identify trends and make decisions based on findings.
- be a strong communicator and be able to demonstrate your commitment to excellent customer service.
- be able to work on your own initiative and with minimal supervision.
- excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- be able to work flexibly as part of a team.
- experience of line management including the training and development of team members.
Please note if you don’t meet the essential qualification criteria listed in the person specification, but feel you have relevant experience and would be willing to work towards achieving them, then we would welcome an application.
Next steps
You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification below.
If you would like to have an informal chat regarding this role, please contact Dawn Johnston, Senior Accountant on tel: 01382 317977, or Gillian Berry, Accounting & Procurement Manager, on tel: 01382 207140 or via e-mail at dawn.johnston@careinspectorate.gov.scot or gillian.berry@careinspectorate.gov.scot
If you believe that you are a suitable candidate for this post, please complete our online application form by 08:00 on Monday 30 September 2024.
We expect interviews to take place on 17 October at our Dundee office.
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Information Analyst
Role: Information Analyst
Location: Flexible – any Care Inspectorate office
Salary: £38,931 – £43,014
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Temporary for 12 months
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.
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
This is a national fixed term contract role. This national role, is an opportunity to use your analytical and data skills and experience to make a real difference for people using care services across Scotland. This will include analysing data from numerous internal and external sources to produce insightful intelligence. You will support the Intelligence team in delivering key analytical support to our Safe Staffing Programme, working closely with a multi-disciplinary team of Care Inspectorate colleagues and those from external agencies.
You will be confident manipulating and interrogating large volumes of raw qualitative and quantitative data, using a variety of software and analytical techniques, and have an eye for detail when it comes to data quality.
About you
You should be educated to degree level (SCQF Level 9) in a subject which includes a significant numerical component, you will ideally have a background in business intelligence, data science, data analysis, operational research, intelligence analysis or data analysis.
You will be familiar with Microsoft applications, business intelligence software (Power BI, Tableau etc.) and proficient in a relevant programming language (SAS, SQL, Python or R etc.). You will be expected to work closely with colleagues across the Care Inspectorate and other external organisations such as the Scottish Government, so must have excellent interpersonal skills and be capable of conveying complex findings clearly both verbally and in writing.
The ideal candidate will have excellent analytical skills, enabling you to manage and analyse large amounts of data and present complex information in a meaningful way.
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 contact Recruitment Team at Recruitment@careinspectorate.gov.scot, please include a contact telephone number and times that would be best to reach you in your email.
If you believe that your skills, experience and motivation make you a suitable candidate for this post, please complete the online application form by 08:00 on Monday 30 June 2025. If we receive a sufficient number of applications, we may close a week prior.
Interviews and assessments will take place no earlier than Tuesday 8 July 2025.
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Person specification
Job title: Accountant
Attibutes
Experience
Essential:
- Demonstrable experience in a Finance environment.
- Experience of managing and leading a team.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of process improvement and LEAN techniques.
- Experience and knowledge of Public Sector.
Education, qualifications and training
Essential:
- Educated to SCQF level 9
- Membership of the Association of Accounting Technicians or part qualification with a Committee of Consultative Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) or equivalent.
Desirable:
- Membership of a CCAB accounting body.
Skills and knowledge
Essential:
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel.
- A thorough knowledge of integrated financial accounting systems
- Accounting expertise in interpreting and applying accounting standards and guidance and other resource information.
- Experience of working in a business partnering role to support budget managers
- Ability to prepare financial reports.
- Annual Accounts preparation.
- Budgeting and budgetary control.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
- Good judgement and decision-making skills.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written information and present results in a clear and concise format.
- Concise and clear oral, written and presentation skills.
- Ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines.
- Planning and organisation skills.
Desirable:
- Oracle financial systems experience.
- Experience of a coaching culture and using coaching to support staff.
Key performance outcomes
Effective communication
Essential:
- Articulate and positive communicator on a 1-1 basis and in larger groups.
- Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to adapt communication to suit different audiences.
- Ability to explain complex financial information to a range of audiences including non-specialists.
- Listens to feedback and ideas from others and takes appropriate and considered action.
Impact and influence
Essential:
- Demonstrates ability to influence at all levels.
- Ability to give realistic advice, based on relevant, up to date and verifiable information.
- Evidence of building positive relationships, engaging and collaborating effectively with others internally and externally.
Improvement focus
Essential:
- Identifies gaps in process and performance and makes appropriate suggestions for improvements.
- Aware of trends and changes and maintains professional knowledge and skills.
- Uses knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information in order to make appropriate changes and improvements.
Objective decision-making:
Essential:
- Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.
- Ability to make appropriate and realistic judgments, based on professional expertise, relevant, up to date and verifiable information.
- Ability to analyse complex information.
Planning and organising
Essential:
- Involves others where appropriate and optimises resources to achieve desired results.
- Regularly reviews joint goals and targets and reprioritises where necessary.
- Recognises the need to be flexible in order to meet changing priorities.
Team working
Essential:
- Contributes to and supports the work and decisions of the team.
- Contributes to the shared vision and purpose and shares this effectively.
- Works collaboratively with a wide range of teams across the Care Inspectorate.
Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.
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