Job Description

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Salary: 32,253 - 35,676

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Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

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Location: Any Care Inspectorate Office - with expectation of travel to Dundee and other offices when required

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Contract: Permanent

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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.


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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.


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About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic and experienced individual to join our Executive and Committee Support team. The team provides high-level and confidential support to the Care Inspectorate Board and Committees, the Board Chair, the Chief Executive, Executive Directors and Chief Inspectors. The Executive Support Officer will play a lead role in delivering and managing this support.


The purpose of the role is to provide comprehensive support to Committees of the Care Inspectorate Board, strategic and other high-level meetings. The role will also be responsible for managing, supporting and developing members of their team in the provision of confidential high-level executive support.


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About you

You will have experience of providing confidential business support at senior level, including servicing committees and strategic meetings, and minute taking. You will have some experience in managing and motivating teams and applying staff policies and procedures.


You are highly organised and able to plan and manage your time and workstreams efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced change environment. 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 team player and able to build and maintain good working relationships. Holding a relevant qualification in administration, management or business studies, you will possess good communication, planning and organising skills together with an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.


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Next steps

You'll find more information in the

job profile

and

person specification

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If you require any further information, or for an informal discussion, please contact Fiona McKeand, Executive and Committee Support Manager on fiona.mckeand@careinspectorate.gov.scot .


If you believe that your expertise, skills and motivation make you suitable for this post, please complete our

online application form

by no later than

08:00 on Monday 7 July 2025

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Interviews will be held at our Headquarters, Riverside Drive, Dundee on week commencing 21 July 2025.