Executive Director of Strategy and Improvement

Role: Executive Director of Strategy and Improvement

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £90,537 – 40 hours per week

Location: Flexible

Join us and make a difference – for you, for everyone

It’s our job to ensure care for everyone, everywhere in Scotland is as good as it can be.

About us

As a national regulator and scrutiny body, we inspect care across communities, report on the quality of care people experience, and ensure it is as good as it can be. We are a scrutiny body that supports improvement.

We inspect care services individually. We also work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people are experiencing in local areas.

We champion high-quality care whenever we encounter it across the thousands of inspections, we carry out each year, and we work closely with all care providers to support them to improve all the time. We collaborate with other organisations too, supporting improvement across public services. Our work plays a big role in reducing health and social inequalities between people and communities.

About the role

We are looking to recruit an Executive Director of Strategy and Improvement who will lead and oversee the delivery of the current strategic priorities and programme of work across the following remits:

• Improvement Support (including national programmes of improvement)
• Communications, media, and employee engagement
• Information Governance
• Intelligence and data analysis
• Organisational Workforce Development (strategic workforce planning and learning and development)
• Involving People
• Policy
• Professional Practice and Standards, including complaints against the Care Inspectorate

The role will provide a strategic steer to ensure that the Directorate continues to support the wider organisation in a way that consolidates excellence.

Along with the Executive Director of Customer and Corporate Services, the Executive Director of Scrutiny and Assurance, and the Executive Director of ICT and Digital Transformation, this role will support the Chief Executive to deliver business and cultural change within the Care Inspectorate and meet strategic outcomes.

Continuous improvement will be at the heart of this role and it will lead on developing good practice, based on consistent benchmarking at national and international level within similar organisations. This will include the development of organisational approaches and infrastructure to strengthen quality improvement and achieve excellence in everything that we do.

About you

Educated to degree level or equivalent and you’ll also possess a professional qualification in an appropriate discipline.

You’ll have significant experience of business development, quality improvement and leading programmes of improvement, strategic planning and communication. As well as demonstrable evidence of embedding sustainable transformational change and significant experience in both operational and strategic leadership and management.

Next steps

For an informal chat about the role please contact Peter Macleod, Chief Executive on telephone: 01382 207131, and his PA will arrange a suitably convenient time for you to discuss any questions you may have.

If you believe you are a suitable candidate for this post, please submit an application outlining how your skills, experience and qualifications match with the competencies required for the role to recruitment@careinspectorate.com by Thursday, 23 July 2020 at 8.00am.

The job pack on our website contains the vacancy information including the job profile and person specification for this permanent role.

It is anticipated that interviews for this post will be held on Monday, 10 August 2020.