If you're looking for the next step on your career in social care, you've just discovered it.
Title: Team Leader (FTC – Maternity Cover)
Salary: £32,391 pa
Hours: 37 hours per week until 28 February 2027
Location: The Studio Hub, Upper Springland and Community Outreach Services – Isla Road, Perth PH2 7HQ
About the Role
We are looking to recruit a Team Leader who will support our Service Manager in managing our vibrant Day Centre and Community Outreach teams in Perth. If you're passionate about supporting adults with complex disabilities and you want every day at work to truly make a difference, this is the role for you.
You will lead our support teams to provide care and support to disabled adults in our purpose-built day hub and within their own homes, residential spaces and communities.
Our Upper Springland Campus offers amazing facilities, including sensory spaces, craft and kitchen areas, hydrotherapy pool, rebound therapy, and an accessible gym all designed to promote independence, creativity and wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities
* Rota management
* Staff management, supervision, recruitment and development
* Managing supported persons activities
* Health and Safety
* Compiling and checking Care and Support plans for people we support
* Management of medicines procedures
* Financial management for people we support
* Liaising with families, health and care professionals and social workers
* Regular on-call support – shared between existing group of Team Leaders – across our Upper Springland Services
Hours & Shift Pattern
37 hours per week. Example shifts: Monday – Friday 7.5 hours, (8:30am or 9am – 4:30pm or 5pm).
On-call support – 7 days out of 28 including evenings and weekends.
Qualifications and Experience
Experience of leading a team within a social care environment is essential, as is a willingness to take on any personal development opportunities. You should have a care-related SVQ Level 4, or be willing to gain this qualification in a given timescale. You should have good interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative. Driving licence preferred due to travel requirements.
Benefits
* Competitive salary – £32,391 (£16.79 per hour).
* Fully funded SVQ – a qualification which is yours for life.
* 32 days holidays per year, increasing to 37 with service.
* Free PVG checks throughout your employment.
* Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme.
* Up to 3 × annual salary death-in-service.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* £600 refer a friend scheme.
* 24/7 employee assistance.
* Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts.
General Information
Capability Scotland is committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
A copy of Capability Scotland's Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.
For more information on this role, you can contact our Admin Team at 01738 632995 quoting reference – CS0304262.1.
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