Health & Wellbeing Team Leader
Stirling & Grangemouth Self-Directed Support Service
Salary: £34,420 - £36,632 | Permanent | Full Time
Lead Excellence. Empower People. Shape the Future of Social Care.
Join a service recognised for excellence and help build what's next.
Build on recent Excellent Care Inspectorate results
Lead a service with a strong foundation of quality, innovation and person-centred outcomes.
At Wheatley Care, great support starts by listening to the people we work for and co-creating services that help them achieve what matters most. We are looking for an ambitious, compassionate and values-led Health & Wellbeing Team Leader to help shape our Stirling & Grangemouth SDS Service.
You will lead within a service recognised for Excellent Care Inspectorate results, supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, physical disabilities and mental health support needs to live safely, independently and with choice.
The post will mainly be based within Grangemouth, with flexibility required to work across the wider Stirling & Grangemouth SDS Service as operational needs require.
Across Stirling and Grangemouth, our teams help people build confidence, make choices, connect with their communities and achieve outcomes that matter. As Team Leader, you will create the conditions for those everyday achievements to happen.
Why now? Following recent Excellent Care Inspectorate results, the service is ready for its next phase: sustaining quality, strengthening innovation and shaping outstanding SDS support across Stirling and Grangemouth.
Why this role matters
Wheatley Care is focused on empowering people, strengthening communities, developing colleagues and improving support. As Team Leader, you will champion co-creation, participation and innovation so people live the life they choose and colleagues feel trusted, developed and empowered.
You will build on an excellent foundation by sustaining standards, encouraging reflective practice, strengthening assurance and supporting improvement and growth across SDS services.
Ambition
Drive improvement, growth and better outcomes across SDS.
Trust
Create open, supportive teams where colleagues use initiative.
Community
Connect people with relationships, opportunities and local assets.
Excellence
Build on Excellent inspection outcomes through quality practice.
What you'll lead
· Empower colleagues to use initiative, make decisions and achieve positive outcomes.
· Build a culture of trust, learning, reflective practice and two-way dialogue.
· Promote creative approaches that improve quality of life, independence and resilience.
· Support people to influence decisions, shape support and achieve personal outcomes.
· Provide day-to-day leadership mainly from Grangemouth, with work across Stirling & Grangemouth SDS as needed.
· Develop future leaders through supervision, coaching, induction and workforce development.
· Sustain standards through quality assurance, improvement planning and regulatory practice.
· Build relationships with families, carers, social work, health professionals, commissioners and community partners.
· Support staffing, rotas, attendance, performance and service development.
· Participate in Wheatley Care's on-call arrangements.
Who we're looking for
We're looking for someone who shares our ambition to be the very best and believes excellent services are built through collaboration, empowerment and continuous improvement.
· A values-led leader who puts people at the heart of decisions.
· Someone who supports people to influence decisions and shape their support.
· A confident coach who develops teams, recognises good practice and challenges poor practice.
· A creative problem-solver who challenges traditional approaches to improve outcomes.
· A strong communicator who builds trusted relationships with colleagues, families and partners.
· Someone who values community connection, participation and resilience.
· A flexible, organised leader who manages competing priorities across a busy SDS service.
Essential requirements
· SVQ Level 3 Health and Social Care, or equivalent, or willingness/ability to work towards the required qualification.
· Experience of leading, supervising or supporting staff within a care or support setting.
· Understanding of outcome-based supervision, person-centred practice, co-production and continuous improvement.
· Knowledge of Self-Directed Support principles and commitment to high-quality, individualised support.
· SSSC registration, or ability to achieve registration within required timescales.
· Flexibility to work mainly from Grangemouth and across Stirling & Grangemouth SDS Service as required.
Why Wheatley Care?
At Wheatley Care, our values of Ambition, Trust, Community and Excellence shape how we lead, support people and develop services. We empower colleagues to innovate, influence change and make a lasting difference.
Our investment in learning, leadership development, technology, assurance and improvement helps deliver outstanding outcomes now and prepare services for the future.
✓ Generous annual leave entitlement
✓ Excellent pension scheme
✓ Supportive induction and ongoing learning
✓ Leadership development and career progression
✓ Employee Assistance Programme
✓ Inclusive, values-led working culture
✓ Opportunity to lead within a service recognised for Excellent Care Inspectorate results
✓ Chance to shape improvement, innovation and growth across SDS services
Ready to apply?
Ready to lead what’s next? If you are passionate about empowering people, developing colleagues and shaping excellent SDS support, this is your opportunity to make a lasting difference across Stirling and Grangemouth.
Apply now and help us build on excellence.
Apply now by sending your CV to [email protected]
Join Wheatley Care. Lead Excellence. Empower People. Shape the Future.
Pay: £34,420.00-£36,623.00 per year
Work Location: In person
