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Team Leader - Dumferies
| Posting date: | 05 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £16.79 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 February 2025 |
| Location: | Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Capability Scotland |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | CW055039E810 |
Summary
Are you looking for the next step on your career in social care, you’ve discovered it...
About Our Service:
Do you want to make a difference to people in Dumfries and Galloway through rehabilitation, enablement and independent advice and support services?
We are looking to recruit a Team Leader who will support our Service Manager in delivering building-based and community-based services across the region.
Our service supports people to engage in employment, education, volunteering and activities of their choice in their communities. To do this Capability Scotland provides:
Wrap-around rehabilitation service for people with an Acquired Brain Injury
Community facilitation service for people with physical disabilities
Self-directed support brokerage and payroll service.
Life skills work for young people with learning disabilities
As an experienced social care practitioner, you will ensure that our people receive exceptional, person-centered support by being responsible for:
Coordinating the day-to-day delivery of community-based facilitation services for people with a physical disability
Coordinating and developing the community brokerage service that provides independent advice and support to those accessing Self Directed Support
Staff management, supervision, recruitment and development
Managing, coordinating and supporting customer activities
Liaising with families, health and care professionals and social workers
Working in partnership with the finance and social work team in supporting self-directed support packages.
What you need to know:
Hours – 35 hours per week
Example Shifts - Monday – Friday: 7.5 hours, 08.30-1630
Location - Compass House, Afton Drive, Dumfries, DG2 9ES (with travel)
Driving licence and access to vehicle essential due to travel requirements of the role.
Closing date - 12th Feb 2025
Experience/qualifications/key skills required:
Experience of working in a similar role and environment is desirable as is a willingness to take on any personal development opportunities. You should have a care related SVQ Level 4, or the willingness 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.
Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:
Competitive salary - £30,640.00 (£16.79 per hour).
We offer a 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 x annual salary death in service.
Perks at Work – shopping discount scheme.
Cycle to work scheme.
24/7 employee assistance
Working for us means you would qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts
We are One Voice, One Charity, One Spirit, #OneCapability.
Applying to Capability Scotland
Applying to join Capability Scotland is easy. At the bottom of this advert, you can submit your CV and a covering letter directly to the hiring manager. You’ll then hear from us within three weeks of the noted closing date.
You can keep a track of your application in your profile management settings.
A full job description of this role is available by clicking here: Team Leader - Day Services
For more information on this role, you can contact our Recbecca at Rebecca.queen@capability.scot quoting ref: CW055039E810
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.
About Our Service:
Do you want to make a difference to people in Dumfries and Galloway through rehabilitation, enablement and independent advice and support services?
We are looking to recruit a Team Leader who will support our Service Manager in delivering building-based and community-based services across the region.
Our service supports people to engage in employment, education, volunteering and activities of their choice in their communities. To do this Capability Scotland provides:
Wrap-around rehabilitation service for people with an Acquired Brain Injury
Community facilitation service for people with physical disabilities
Self-directed support brokerage and payroll service.
Life skills work for young people with learning disabilities
As an experienced social care practitioner, you will ensure that our people receive exceptional, person-centered support by being responsible for:
Coordinating the day-to-day delivery of community-based facilitation services for people with a physical disability
Coordinating and developing the community brokerage service that provides independent advice and support to those accessing Self Directed Support
Staff management, supervision, recruitment and development
Managing, coordinating and supporting customer activities
Liaising with families, health and care professionals and social workers
Working in partnership with the finance and social work team in supporting self-directed support packages.
What you need to know:
Hours – 35 hours per week
Example Shifts - Monday – Friday: 7.5 hours, 08.30-1630
Location - Compass House, Afton Drive, Dumfries, DG2 9ES (with travel)
Driving licence and access to vehicle essential due to travel requirements of the role.
Closing date - 12th Feb 2025
Experience/qualifications/key skills required:
Experience of working in a similar role and environment is desirable as is a willingness to take on any personal development opportunities. You should have a care related SVQ Level 4, or the willingness 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.
Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:
Competitive salary - £30,640.00 (£16.79 per hour).
We offer a 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 x annual salary death in service.
Perks at Work – shopping discount scheme.
Cycle to work scheme.
24/7 employee assistance
Working for us means you would qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts
We are One Voice, One Charity, One Spirit, #OneCapability.
Applying to Capability Scotland
Applying to join Capability Scotland is easy. At the bottom of this advert, you can submit your CV and a covering letter directly to the hiring manager. You’ll then hear from us within three weeks of the noted closing date.
You can keep a track of your application in your profile management settings.
A full job description of this role is available by clicking here: Team Leader - Day Services
For more information on this role, you can contact our Recbecca at Rebecca.queen@capability.scot quoting ref: CW055039E810
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.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.