Team Managers
| Posting date: | 15 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £56,076 to £61,917 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 September 2025 |
| Location: | Scotland, UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Care Inspectorate |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
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.
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
We are looking for team managers within our adults regulated inspection teams. The location of the posts is to be confirmed but will be based in teams across Scotland. The successful candidates can be based in any of our Care Inspectorate offices but must be willing to travel to meet inspectors and providers in the areas identified.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to try something different. If you are improvement focussed, confident, and have a passion to make a real difference which supports the innovative delivery of care then these roles may be for you.
Our team managers support their team of inspectors to manage their workload, consider risk factors and maximise performance. In the inspection teams the work includes delivering a programme of inspections using risk and intelligence to prioritise the use of the team's inspector resource. Team managers work closely with our registration and complaints teams to ensure effective scrutiny of care services. As the key element of the role is service development and delivery, there is interface and collaboration with colleagues within and across the organisation, providers, and relevant stakeholders.
As the team manager you will be the relationship manager for adults with the Health and Social Care Partnerships in the areas to be identified. You will support local oversight, share intelligence, and enable your team to support improvement for people experiencing care living in those areas. Team Managers are expected to take part in and keep up to date with national initiatives and development to support the work of the Care Inspectorate. Team managers also provide professional development to the team of inspectors that they manage.
About you
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 adults. You will have experience 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 Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 and the principles of better regulation.
To apply
You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification.
If you believe that you are a suitable candidate for this post, please complete the online application form by no later than 08:00 on Monday 8 September 2025.
Interviews will be held on week commencing 6 October 2025.
Registration information and process
You will support the Assurance and Improvement Directorate to ensure that the Care Inspectorate meets its responsibilities as defined by the Public Services Reform Act 2010 and other relevant legislation.
The successful applicant must be registered with a professional body (this can be NMC, GTCS, NMC, HCPC, SSSC).
For SSSC registration, there is a specific registration category for Care Inspectorate Authorised Officers (AO). There will be two levels of AO registration (Primary AO and Secondary AO), and identification of types of work undertaken (Social Care and Children & Young People).
On appointment as a Team Manager you will be required to register with SSSC as a secondary AO under both types of work (Social Care and Children & Young People) or be registered with another appropriate registration body (NMC, GTCS, HCPC).
We would expect non-SSSC staff to hold or gain the appropriate AO qualification (in this case EFQM would be the minimum qualification).
Employees will be expected to maintain registration with the same professional body throughout their employment in the Care Inspectorate. This includes employees working in authorised officer roles who are recruited to the Care Inspectorate based on their registration with the NMC, GTCS, HCPC or other recognised professional body. It is a contractual requirement to maintain registration with the same professional body and employees should not transfer their registration to the SSSC from another recognised professional body, including the NMC, GTCS or HCPC.
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.
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
We are looking for team managers within our adults regulated inspection teams. The location of the posts is to be confirmed but will be based in teams across Scotland. The successful candidates can be based in any of our Care Inspectorate offices but must be willing to travel to meet inspectors and providers in the areas identified.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to try something different. If you are improvement focussed, confident, and have a passion to make a real difference which supports the innovative delivery of care then these roles may be for you.
Our team managers support their team of inspectors to manage their workload, consider risk factors and maximise performance. In the inspection teams the work includes delivering a programme of inspections using risk and intelligence to prioritise the use of the team's inspector resource. Team managers work closely with our registration and complaints teams to ensure effective scrutiny of care services. As the key element of the role is service development and delivery, there is interface and collaboration with colleagues within and across the organisation, providers, and relevant stakeholders.
As the team manager you will be the relationship manager for adults with the Health and Social Care Partnerships in the areas to be identified. You will support local oversight, share intelligence, and enable your team to support improvement for people experiencing care living in those areas. Team Managers are expected to take part in and keep up to date with national initiatives and development to support the work of the Care Inspectorate. Team managers also provide professional development to the team of inspectors that they manage.
About you
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 adults. You will have experience 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 Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 and the principles of better regulation.
To apply
You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification.
If you believe that you are a suitable candidate for this post, please complete the online application form by no later than 08:00 on Monday 8 September 2025.
Interviews will be held on week commencing 6 October 2025.
Registration information and process
You will support the Assurance and Improvement Directorate to ensure that the Care Inspectorate meets its responsibilities as defined by the Public Services Reform Act 2010 and other relevant legislation.
The successful applicant must be registered with a professional body (this can be NMC, GTCS, NMC, HCPC, SSSC).
For SSSC registration, there is a specific registration category for Care Inspectorate Authorised Officers (AO). There will be two levels of AO registration (Primary AO and Secondary AO), and identification of types of work undertaken (Social Care and Children & Young People).
On appointment as a Team Manager you will be required to register with SSSC as a secondary AO under both types of work (Social Care and Children & Young People) or be registered with another appropriate registration body (NMC, GTCS, HCPC).
We would expect non-SSSC staff to hold or gain the appropriate AO qualification (in this case EFQM would be the minimum qualification).
Employees will be expected to maintain registration with the same professional body throughout their employment in the Care Inspectorate. This includes employees working in authorised officer roles who are recruited to the Care Inspectorate based on their registration with the NMC, GTCS, HCPC or other recognised professional body. It is a contractual requirement to maintain registration with the same professional body and employees should not transfer their registration to the SSSC from another recognised professional body, including the NMC, GTCS or HCPC.
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