Job title: Solicitor

Attributes

Experience

Essential:

  • Minimum of two years relevant post qualifying experience, including recent Sheriff Court experience.

Education, qualifications and training

Essential:

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent.
  • Pracitising Certificate issued by the Law Society of Scotland.
  • Commitment to own CPD.

Skills and knowledge

Essential:

  • Excellent communication skills - both written and oral.
  • Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
  • Understanding of Equality and Diversity issues.
  • IT literate, demonstrating experience with IT language and processes, using the most effective methods to communicate and manage information.

Key performance outcomes

Effective communication

Essential:

  • Clear and concise oral and written communication skills.
  • Ability to select appropriate communication style and methods depending on the needs and abilities of the audience.
  • Addresses difficult issues so people are kept well informed.

Desirable:

  • Articulate and positive communicator.

Flexibility

Essential:

  • Is open-minded to suggestions about how to improve processes within the Care Inspectorate.
  • Applies regulation and standards sensibly and understands where a flexible approach may be required.
  • Exercises professional judgement when considering options and outcomes.

Improvement focus

Essential:

  • Uses knowledge and experience to gather and consolidate information in order to make appropriate changes and improvements.
  • Aware of trends and changes and maintains professional knowledge and skills.
  • Encourages and promotes new ideas.

Desirable:

  • Rethinks traditional ways of doing things to create opportunities to improve.

Impact and influence

Essential:

  • Uses evidence to influence others towards a course of action.
  • Builds a network of contracts to increase circle of influence.
  • Influences others by example and acts as a professional role model.
  • Focuses on key benefits to get message across.

Desirable:

  • Anticipates likely objections and builds responses in to arguement/approach.

Objective decision making

Essential:

  • Balances the need for careful decision making with the need for action.
  • Ensures all options are considered in order to make the right decisions.
  • Makes effective decisions based on critical evaluation of all relevant facts and evidence.
  • Considers Care Inspectorate values in relation to impact of their decisions.

Please note - these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.