Vacancy -- CIW - Inspector – Childcare and Play Inspection

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Vacancy Details

Education and Public Services
CIW - Childcare and Play Team
HEO - £32,460 - £39,690
A starting salary of up to point 3 (£32,900) may be considered where the essential skills, knowledge and experience are demonstrated.
Full time (applications are welcome from people who work part time, as part of a job share or who work full time)
Permanent
South East Wales, Other location
This post is based in Carmarthern
TBC

Purpose of Post:

CIW is the independent regulator of social care and childcare. CIW registers, inspects and takes action to improve the quality and safety of services for the well-being of the people of Wales. Inspection and enforcement are key functions in the delivery of safe, high quality regulated services to the citizens of Wales. 

The primary task of an Inspector is to ensure that regulated care services provide good quality, safe care and to encourage and drive improvement. Inspectors have the opportunity to use their knowledge and skills to safeguard and protect the well being of people using regulated services and to gather information about outcomes for people. This can be used by CIW in its evaluation of local councils and for informing policy development. 

Inspectors will be responsible to a Team Manager. They will have a critical function to perform to ensure the effective and timely delivery of CIW’s core responsibilities across the full spectrum of Childcare and Play services.

Key tasks:

  • Maintaining oversight and management of a caseload of childcare and play services, ensuring the required inspections take place, monitoring levels of risk, assessing incoming concerns and ensuring all records are kept up to date.
  • Carrying out inspections in line with an agreed programme, observing and reporting on the well-being of people using the service, identifying and monitoring areas of non compliance, raising and responding to safeguarding concerns.
  • Taking responsibility for following and progressing actions in relation to services of concern and liaising with other key stakeholders including commissioners, other regulatory bodies and safeguarding leads.
  • Preparing and undertaking enforcement activity including drafting statutory notices.
  • Collating, providing evidence to and attending Care Standard Tribunal hearings.
  • Working with managers to contribute to the setting and achieving of organisational performance objectives, including both quantitative and qualitative measures.
  • Ensuring effective communication across the team to ensure that good practice is shared and areas of concern reported.
  • Contributing to the development and improvement of practice to ensure robust, consistent regulatory standards where issues of diversity and equality are fully addressed and integrated.
  • Keep up to date with changes in legislation, guidance, and policies, procedures and best practice development.
  • Ensuring the development of and ongoing effective engagement with other stakeholders including people who use services and carers.
  • Preparing correspondence in relation to specific issues raised about services.
  • Maintaining accurate records management including the use of CRM database (CaSSI).
  • Take responsibility for own performance management and own professional development and seek appropriate development opportunities in accordance with the Welsh Government/CIW performance and development / management support process and in discussion with the team manager.

Development opportunities:

This posts offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic organisation which champions improvements in social care through a citizen focussed approach.

Closing Date:

03/05/2019, 16:00

Eligibility

Posts recruited to as part of this recruitment campaign are broadly open to UK nationals, those with right to remain and work in the UK and those that meet the Civil Service Nationality Rules only. Check your eligibility here:

Prior to appointment, all successful applicants will be required to produce original, acceptable documents as part of the pre-employment checks. If it becomes apparent at a later stage in the process that you aren’t eligible to apply, your application will be withdrawn, or offer retracted.

Equality and Diversity

The Welsh Government is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. This is underpinned by the Equality Act 2010 and will be adhered to at each stage of the recruitment process. Our goal is to ensure that these commitments are also embedded in our day-to-day working practices with all our customers, colleagues and partners.

We are committed to being an anti-racist organisation and increasing diversity in the Welsh Government by removing barriers and supporting all our staff to reach their potential. We are committed to recruiting Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people and disabled people who are currently under-represented in Welsh Government.

We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, marriage and civil partnership (both same sex and opposite sex), impairment or health condition, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, gender identity or gender expression.

We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a Disability Confident Level 3 (Leader) organisation. Key to supporting this work and providing peer support are five Board sponsored Staff Networks (Disability Awareness and Support (DAAS); Minority Ethnic Support Network (MESN); Mind Matters (Mental health and well-being); PRISM (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex +) and Women Together.

Disability Confident

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

Welsh Language Requirements

The Welsh Government is a bilingual organisation and Welsh language skills are considered an asset to the organisation. We encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills in the workplace. 

The following list of language requirements represents an objective assessment by the line manager on behalf of the Welsh Government of the Welsh language skills required to undertake the duties of this particular post.

Not necessary to undertake the duties of this post

Social Partnership

In Welsh Government, the relationship between the employer and trade unions is based on social partnership. We believe our goals can best be achieved by management and trade unions working together.

Our 3 recognised trade unions are:
•         PCS
•         Prospect
•         FDA

This relationship is underpinned by a partnership agreement. This sets out how our unions work with Welsh Government on issues such as:
•         pay
•         terms and conditions
•         policies and procedures
•         organisational change.

Our Welsh Government trade union colleagues work together to give their members a real say in the workplace. They make sure that the interests of their members are promoted and protected. They also help reduce inequalities and improve terms and conditions.

The Welsh Government has an excellent track record of working in partnership with its trade unions. We encourage staff to get involved. We support you to join a recognised trade union, to ensure your voice is heard in the workplace. and to learn more about trade unions and partnership working.

Competencies / Job Specific Criteria

Competencies:

Setting Direction – Seeing the Big Picture

Actively seek out and share experience to develop understanding and knowledge of own work and of team’s business area

 

Setting Direction – Making Effective Decisions

Recognise patterns and trends in a wide range of evidence/data and draw key conclusions, outlining costs, benefits, risks and potential responses.

 

Engaging People – Leading and Communicating

Communicate in a straightforward, honest and engaging manner with all stakeholders and stand ground when needed.

 

Delivering Results – Delivering at Pace

Plan ahead but reassess workloads and priorities if situations change or people are facing conflicting demands.

Job Specific Criteria:

  • A recognised Social Care qualification such as a Diploma in Social Work (or Social Care Wales equivalent), Degree in Early Years/Childhood Studies, a teaching degree, PGCE qualification with relevant degree or Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Children’s Care, Learning and Development, along with relevant post qualifying experience of working within Social Care Services for Children. 
  • Evidence of leading and driving improvement in the quality and safety of services to meet the diverse needs and requirements of service user/customer/end user.
  • Proven ability of both written and verbal communication skills when working with a range of stakeholders

Assessment Process

Other Information

  • Unless stated otherwise in ‘actual starting salary’, all candidates will start at the minimum of the pay scale being appointed to (this includes existing civil servants).This is not negotiable.
  • Unless stated otherwise in ‘type of opportunity’, this recruitment advert is not open on a Loan or Secondment basis.
  • For more information on the eligibility criteria and terms and conditions for Loan and Secondment positions in Welsh Government, please see external recruitment candidate guidance.
  • Unless stated otherwise in ‘Location of Post’ the role/s recruited to via this campaign can only be worked in the UK, not overseas.

A Recruitment and Retention Allowance of up to £4,535 per annum will be payable. The allowance is attached to the post of the Inspector and is in addition to the substantive salary.

An allowance of £1,000 per year is available if you use your own car and cover in excess of 2,000 statutory miles per year. A valid driving licence and motor insurance is required

A starting salary of up to point 3 (£32,900) may be considered where the essential skills, knowledge and experience are demonstrated.

Occasional work is required outside of normal office hours in order to complete inspections.


Recruitment open days:

We are holding several recruitment open days across our offices in Wales.  Find out more about the work we do, hear from our current inspectors, discover more about the roles we are advertising and obtain assistance in how to complete your online application. There are 3 sessions, please choose a preference of either 9-10am, 12noon-1pm or 3-4pm:

• Thursday 11 April, Merthyr Office

• Friday 12 April, Carmarthen Office

• Tuesday 23 April, Carmarthen Office

• Tuesday 23 April, Llandudno Office

• Monday 29 April, Merthyr Office

• Monday 29 April, Llandudno Office

 

No need to book, come along on the day.

There is an information pack availible on the CIW website, please follow the following link to acess it:

https://careinspectorate.wales/sites/default/files/2019-04/190411-external-recruitment-2019-en.pdf

Janette Gahan - 03000 628719 - Janette.Gahan@gov.wales

How to apply

All applications for this vacancy should be made online via the Welsh Government's online application system.  If you have a disability which would prevent you from applying on-line, please e-mail SharedServiceHelpdesk@gov.wales to request an application pack in an alternative format, or to request a reasonable adjustment related to a disability in order to submit your application.

To apply, you'll need to have an account on our online application system.  Click the 'Apply' button below, and you'll be asked to 'Log in' if you already have an account, or 'Register' if you don't yet have an account.  Registration takes just a few minutes to complete.  You'll need an e-mail address to be able to register.  Once you've registered for an account and logged in, you'll be taken to the online application form, which you'll need to fully complete and submit before the deadline on the closing date.  

If you’d like to apply for this vacancy in Welsh, please use the ‘Newid Iaith / Change Language’ link at the top of this page, to take you to the Welsh version of this advert, from which you can apply in Welsh.

For further information regarding the Welsh Government recruitment process, please see the Recruitment Guidance for External Candidates (link).

When evidencing your suitability for the post, it is recommended that you refer to the Civil Service Competency Framework (link)

Grievance and Complaints

Anyone who believes they have been treated unfairly, or has a grievance or complaint, about how the process was conducted should either write to the Head of Resourcing, Welsh Government, Cathays Park 2, Cardiff CF10 3NQ or email SharedServiceHelpdesk@gov.wales.  If you are unhappy with the outcome of the complaint raised with the Welsh Government and feel that the principles of appointment on merit through fair and open competition have not been met you have the right to pursue your grievance with the Civil Service Commission.

This vacancy is closed to applications.