Team Leader - Riccarton - INTERNAL

Team Leader - Riccarton - INTERNAL

If you’re looking for the next step on your career in social care, you’ve just discovered it.

Team Leader- £16,195.46 pa - INTERNAL VACANCY
Hours: 18.5 hours per week
Location: Mercury House,Riccarton Hub, Research Avenue North, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP

At Capability Scotland Riccarton Hub, we provide specialist daytime support and occasional 24-hour short break respite services, for adults with physical, learning and complex disabilities, promoting independence, inclusion, and wellbeing through personalised care and enriching activities.

We provide fun and meaningful activities for our customers to get involved in during the day. We pride ourselves in enhancing outcomes and life experiences and in our Hub, we focus on health and well-being as well as creating smiles. We're focused on making our customers' time at Riccarton all about them and offer tailored and bespoke support plans.

We are looking to recruit a Team Leader who will work alongside a small group of team leaders to support our Service Manager in managing our team. As an experienced social care practitioner, you will ensure that our people continue to receive exceptional, person-centred support we provide by being responsible for:

• Rota management
• Staff management, supervision, recruitment, and development
• Managing customer activities
• Health and Safety
• Compiling and checking Care and Support plans for customers
• Management of medicines procedures
• Financial management for customers (dependent on service)
• Liaising with families, health and care professionals and social workers
• Sleepovers & on-call support (dependent on service - if appropriate additional payments are provided)

Location - Mercury House, Riccarton Hub, Research Avenue North, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP

Hours - 18.5 hours per week.

Predominantly Monday-Friday between 8.30am & 5.30pm (we are open to discuss doing hours over 2/3 days) & with occasional on-callcover required in our respite service, therefore a flexible approach to working is 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.

• Competitive salary - £16,195.46 pa (£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 programme.
• Working for us means you would qualify for Blue Light & Concert for Carer discounts

* Benefits are subject to contractual terms.

We are One Voice, One Charity, One Spirit, #One Capability.

For more information on this role, you can contact Liz Gold on Liz.

Goldt using reference CS0909261

Closing date – 23rd Sept 2026

We reserve the right to close or extend this vacancy dependent on the number of applications. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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