Team Manager – Early Learning and Childcare

Role: Team Manager – Early Learning and Childcare (ELC)

Location: 1x Full-Time Post (140 hours over 4 weeks) Flexible – Any Care Inspectorate office across Scotland, 1x Part-Time Post (70 hours over 4 weeks) Glasgow / Flexible – Any Care Inspectorate office across Scotland

Salary: £46,107 – £52,971 FTE

Contract: Permanent or secondment

About the role

We are looking for full-time team manager to manage a team of inspectors in early learning and childcare.

Our team managers support their team of inspectors to manage the inspection workload, consider risk factors and maximise performance. They also manage enforcement activity and support service development and improvement. Team managers work closely with our registration and complaints teams to ensure effective regulation of care services.

Team managers have a relationship manager role with a number of local authorities and national providers. They are expected to take part in and keep up to date with national initiatives and development to support the work of the team. Team managers also provide professional development to the team of inspectors that they manage.

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 you

We are looking for full-time team manager to manage a team of inspectors in early learning and childcare.

You will be educated to degree level or equivalent and hold an appropriate professional qualification and be committed to your own continuous professional development.

You should have significant experience of operational scrutiny activity and professional regulatory practice within health, social care, or other relevant sectors. You will have experience of implementing improvements and managing change.

You will need to be able to provide leadership and direction to a diverse team of professional staff. You will need to demonstrate a significant knowledge of working with inspection and regulation of care as well as a commitment to the principles of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 and the principles of better regulation.

To apply

For the job profile, person specification, application form and equal opportunities – please go to our website.

If you are currently a Team Manager at the Care Inspectorate and wish to transfer team, please complete the employee transfer form and review the guidance where necessary by following the links.

For an informal chat about the job role, please contact the HR team at recruitment@careinspectorate.gov.scot and a member of the team will arrange for you to receive a call back from one of our Service Managers.

All completed applications forms should be submitted to recruitment@careinspectorate.gov.scot no later than Monday, 8 March at 8.00am.

It is anticipated that interviews and selection will take place on Wednesday, 31 March 2021.