Safe Staffing Project Researcher

Role: Safe Staffing Project Researcher

Location: Flexible – any Care Inspectorate office

Salary: £27,867 - £30,165

Contract: Temporary to 31 March 2023

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

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to work within a team which delivers the information requirements of the Care Inspectorate and provides an intelligence and analysis service.

We are looking for an individual who is creative and highly motivated to support, develop and deliver improvement interventions to support the implementation of the Safe Staffing legislation.

The intelligence researcher post will be part of the safe staffing team and will work closely with colleagues in the Improvement Support Team (IST) and Scrutiny and Assurance. The focus of the role is delivering the key priorities of the Safe Staffing legislation, which includes working with the safe staffing lead in scoping and development of workload improvement interventions, one of which may be a staffing method and tools for use in the care home sector which takes account of people who live in care homes’ strengths and support required.

About you

You will be confident working with raw data and possess excellent Microsoft Excel skills. The successful candidate will pay close attention to detail in order to clean and validate data and identify opportunities to improve data quality. Your sound knowledge of the Care Inspectorate, and in particular its operational ICT systems, will be invaluable to the team and give you a solid foundation from which to coordinate data quality improvement initiatives.

As well as having good literacy skills, you will have an aptitude for working with facts and figures to a high degree of accuracy. You will be expected to work with colleagues across the Care Inspectorate, and in particular be prepared to play a lead role in the Intelligence Network. Therefore, you must have good interpersonal skills and be prepared to develop a sound understanding our data to respond effectively to information requests. Excellent IT skills are a pre-requisite, enabling you to work with large amounts of data and present complex information in a meaningful way.

To apply

For an informal discussion about the above posts, please contact Angella Fulton, project lead on 07768 570045 (or via Teams) or by email at angella.fulton@careinspectorate.gov.scot

If you believe that your expertise and motivation make you suitable for this post, please complete an application and send it to the recruitment mailbox recruitment@careinspectorate.gov.scot no later than 8am on Monday 8 November 2021.

Interviews will be conducted online.