Senior Improvement Adviser (registered nurse with a focus on mental health and learning disabilities)

Job title: Senior Improvement Adviser (registered nurse) (focus on mental health and learning disabilities)

Salary: £56,076 – £61,917 (pro rata)

Hours: Part time, 28 hours per week

Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office)

Contract: Permanent

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.

About the role

We are looking for a colleague who is a registered nurse with a passion for quality improvement to join the Health and Social Care Improvement Team (HSCIT) permanently.

Our team has quality improvement and health expertise. We use this to work strategically and operationally, with internal and external colleagues and frontline care staff. We do this so that people who experience care achieve improved health and wellbeing outcomes that matter to them.

You will support the Scrutiny and Assurance Directorate and Strategy 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.

About you

You will be a registered nurse with significant specialist subject matter expertise and be able to combine it with an understanding of quality improvement theory/change management and its practical application in health and social care settings.

The application process

To apply, the successful applicant must be registered with NMC and maintain this professional registration in line with the Care Inspectorate’s Professional Registration Policy.

Hold a formal qualification in an aspect of improvement science such as Scottish Improvement Leader (ScIL) programme or working towards this or an equivalent improvement qualification.

Next steps

You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification.

If you would like more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Lynn Flannigan (Quality Improvement Manager) - please include a contact telephone number and times that would be best to reach you in your email.

If you believe that your skills, experience and motivation make you a suitable candidate for this post, please complete the online application form by 08:00 on Monday 1 September 2025.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held no sooner than Monday 22 September in our Dundee office.