Personal message from the Chair of the Care Inspectorate

Thank you for your interest in the Chief Executive’s role at the Care Inspectorate.

I was privileged to be re-appointed as Chair of the Care Inspectorate in March 2015. An exciting opportunity has arisen at the strategic level in the organisation. The Board of the Care Inspectorate is looking for an exceptional Chief Executive to lead the organisation during the next phase of the delivery of its corporate objectives, which support the Scottish Government’s important policies around early years, health and social care, and community justice.

Almost everybody in Scotland will use care at some stage in their life, and most care services perform well. Our vision is that every person receives high quality, safe and compassionate care that meets their needs and promotes their rights.

This requires a focus on human rights and outcomes across the entire care sector, ensuring that dignity and respect become a golden thread throughout the planning, delivery, inspection and improvement of care. This means that people who use care services and their carers are at the centre of planning and delivering them, ensuring voice, choice and control for people in the care that they receive.

Our workforce is highly skilled and experienced in all aspects of care, social work and public protection. Our 600 staff work from offices across Scotland, from the Borders to the Islands.

The Care Inspectorate continues to have a very important role in shaping the quality of care, quality, standards and scrutiny and improvement across Scotland. This is at a time of particular major changes such as a review of the National Care Standards, the implementation of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, and Public Bodies (Joint Working) Act (Scotland) 2014.

The successful candidate will have vision and focus, and a proven track record of successfully managing a complex organisation. Such experience will include significant responsibility for an organisation’s finances and operational performance, and for building strategies to deliver its corporate aims.

Politically astute, he/she will have highly developed negotiating and influencing skills, and the ability to constructively challenge the status quo.

We believe that people in Scotland should experience a better quality of life as a result of accessible, excellent services that are designed and delivered to reflect their individual needs and promote their rights.

We seek a very experienced leader to provide a clear, strategic vision to our work, with an exceptional proven track record in multi-agency working, change management, delivery of policy, an understanding of human rights, social work policy and practice, public health and corporate governance, including risk management, legal, finance, ICT and public reporting.

Paul Edie
Chair, Care Inspectorate