SCOTTISH COURTS AND TRIBUNALS SERVICE

Head of Service Delivery

Location: Saughton House, Edinburgh (currently working from home)

Starting salary: £49,149 per annum

You will perform a key role as part of the senior management team within the SCTS, setting the operational direction for facilities management within the SCTS. The Head of Service Delivery (HOSD) will lead the planned and sustainable maintenance, operation and facilities management of the SCTS estate. Working with SCTS colleagues you will help to drive and deliver key facilities and infrastructure improvements in how the Courts, Tribunals and Office of the Public Guardian serve the judiciary and public. You will lead, coach and motivate staff within the PSU delivery team too.

The job requires a proven track record of managing complex estates and managing estates management services. You will have notable experience of running large capital programmes and ideally be a Chartered Member of a professional property Institute e.g. RICS, CIOB, CIBS, RIBA.

A 2:1 bachelor’s degree level qualification or equivalent in Facilities Management, Building Surveying, Construction, Engineering, Architectural or another subject of merit to the post is desired but not essential.

In return we offer an interesting work environment, flexible working arrangements; various policies aimed at helping you balance the needs of your work and home life, exclusive offers and discounts, access to funding for further education, vocational qualification, 25 days holiday entitlement, 11.5 days Public and Privilege holidays and a civil service pension. Opportunities for career progression are also excellent.

If you are interested in this challenging and rewarding opportunity, you may apply online via the 'Apply' button. For further information on the post please contact David Currie, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh on 0131 444 3300 or email dcurrie@Scotcourts.gov.uk

The closing date for the post is 2 July 2021.

Interviews will be held week commencing 12 July 2021.

Nationality Requirement

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with (or eligible for) status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

We strongly urge that EU nationals who may not have Settled or Pre-Settled Status make an application before 30 June 2021, to ensure their continued eligibility to employment.

By virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusion and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013 (as amended), the protections of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) are disapplied to this appointment in the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service. This permits us to ask applicants to disclose details of all unspent convictions, unspent cautions (from England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and spent convictions for an offence listed in Schedule A1 of the 2013 Order but only if: 15 years have not elapsed since the date of your conviction if you were aged 18 or over on that date; or 7 years and 6 months have not elapsed since the date of your conviction if you were under 18 on that date. Any spent conviction that is a ‘protected conviction’ does not require to be disclosed. Individuals without existing security clearance will require a standard level Disclosure check completed before employment can commence. Further information on the different types of convictions that should be disclosed in this application form and which are included in a Standard Disclosure can be found at https://www.mygov.scot/standard-disclosure/

The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service and the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union work in partnership so we have open, collaborative and positive working environments that make SCTS a great place to work, learn and develop, engaging fully with fair work principles and encouraging membership of our recognised trade union PCS.