Team Leader - Edinburgh

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Team Leader - Edinburgh / Full Time

Full-Time Team Leader – £32,390.92 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

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

Benefits - 32 days holidays per year, increasing to 37 with service, Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme, Perks at Work, £600 Refer a Friend & much more!

About Riccarton (Day Services) Hub

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 on enhancing outcomes and life experiences and, within our Hub, we focus on health and wellbeing 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.

About the Role

We are looking to recruit a Team Leader to support our Service Manager in managing our team. As experienced social care practitioners, you will ensure that our people continue to receive the 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 and on-call support (dependent on service – additional payments are provided where appropriate)

Hours of Work

37 hours per week, predominantly Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 5.30pm.

This post will require flexibility to provide occasional on-call cover within our respite service.

Experience / Qualifications / Key Skills Required

Experience of working in a similar role and environment is desirable, as is a willingness to take on personal development opportunities. You should hold an SVQ Level 4 in a care-related subject, or be willing to work towards this qualification within an agreed timescale.

You should have:

Good interpersonal and communication skills

The ability to work effectively as part of a team

The ability to work on your own initiative

A person-centred approach to support delivery

Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:

Competitive salary - £32,390.92 per annum - £16.79 per hour

Fully funded SVQ qualification – yours for life

32 days holiday per year, increasing to 37 with service

Free PVG checks throughout your employment

Up to 8% company contribution pension scheme

Up to 3x annual salary death in service benefit

Perks at Work shopping discount scheme

Cycle to work scheme

24/7 employee assistance programme

Blue Light Card and Concert for Carer discounts

£600 Refer a Friend scheme

Subject to contractual terms.

One Voice, One Charity, One Spirit, #OneCapability

A full job description for this role is available by clicking here: Team Leader (Res Resp)

For more information on this role, please contact Toni Taylor at Toni.Taylor@Capability.scot using reference CS250626

Closing Date: 6th July 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.

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.

Due to the high volume of applications expected, we advise that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest and for taking the time to apply to work with us.

This post is subject to membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and a satisfactory PVG Scheme Record/Update. The successful candidate will be required to undergo the appropriate Disclosure Scotland vetting checks prior to appointment.