Team Leader - Children's Residential Services - 495429

Capability Scotland; Lanark; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £32,391 pa

Fully funded SVQ

32 days holidays

PVG checks

Pension scheme

Death in service

Perks at Work

Cycle to work

Employee assistance programme

Discounts

Job summary

Capability Scotland invites applications for a Team Leader at Stanmore House Residential in Lanark. You will support the Service Manager, supervise staff, manage care plans, and ensure safe and person-centred support for young people with complex needs across our residential and life skills services.

The role requires rota management, medicines procedures knowledge, and strong liaison with families and health professionals. A care SVQ3 or equivalent and on-call flexibility are preferred.

Qualifications

• Care-related SVQ Level 3 or willingness to gain this qualification.
• Experience in a similar role and environment desirable.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work both in a team and on your own initiative.

Responsibilities

• 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)

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Initiative

Care experience

Education

SVQ Level 3

Job description

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

Team Leader- £32,391.00 pa
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Stanmore House Residential, Stanmore Road, Lanark, ML11 7RR

About Stanmore Residential & Life Skills Service

Stanmore House Residential acts as both a boarding element to Stanmore House School and a residential and respite service for the children of Scotland. The young people we support are aged between 5 & 20 with a variety of complex disabilities. We support them to live independently in our bright, fully adapted, residential & school campus based in the outskirts of Lanark.

Our amazing life skills service, supports young people up to age of 26, in a mock-home set up, to learn life skills such as cooking, domestic tasks and money management to prepare them for independent living.

About the Role

We are looking to recruit a Team Leader who will 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 - Stanmore House Residential, Stanmore Road, Lanark, ML11 7RR

Hours - 37 hours per week, shift working with on-call therefore a flexible approach to working is required.

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 3, 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 - £32,391.00 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, #OneCapability.

Closing date - 18th Nov 2026

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 Karen on 01555 665041 ext. 2369 / [e-mail] using reference CS0411261

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.