Health and Wellbeing Team Leader

Do you want to make a positive difference to people’s lives? Come and join Wheatley Care as a Health and Wellbeing Team Leader.

We are a values led social care organisation focused on delivering support that genuinely improves people’s lives.  As a not for profit provider, with over 40 years’ experience in the social care arena we reinvest our resources where they matter most: the people and communities we serve. Our work is grounded in dignity, respect, and the belief that everyone deserves the chance to live well.

We are recognised for delivering reliable, person led support across our communities. Our teams are trusted to provide safe, compassionate care that stands up to scrutiny. We take pride in being a steady, dependable partner within the health and social care landscape across Scotland.

We are entering a significant phase of development as we progress on the transition to becoming an independent organisation and are strengthening our service management teams to match our ambition.  Our focus is on long term sustainability, strong governance and services that remain fit for the future. We combine the ethos of the third sector with the discipline of a modern, well run organisation.

Our culture is grounded in respect, accountability, and a shared commitment to doing the right thing. We support our staff to grow, contribute, and lead with confidence.  We value professionalism, kindness, and the ability to work with purpose.

We are delighted to announce several team leader vacancies across our personalised and self-directed services within our organisation, following a series of internal promotions. This is a fantastic opportunity for motivated individuals to step into a leadership role and help shape the future of our services.

The Health and Wellbeing Team Leader role is responsible for the operational day-to-day management within services, reporting to the registered manager.  
Key element of the role include:

• Service leadership: oversee collective services, establish and implement policies, procedures, and standards for personalised support.
• Risk enablement: promote a culture of risk enablement and co-creation, designing services around individual outcomes and aspirations.
• Outcome-based practice: ensure outcome-based supervision, training, and workforce development; support staff in understanding their roles and displaying required behaviours and skills.Reporting and quality: regularly report on performance, innovation, and quality outcomes to management.

We are looking for candidates who have recent experience in supporting multiple client groups working with partners to ensure an excellent service and can:

• Demonstrate ambition, trust, inclusion, and excellence.
• Put people at the heart of everything, remove barriers to excellent service, foster trust, encourage creative solutions, and maintain effective communication.
• Inspire and support staff, manage performance, develop innovative practice, and build networks locally and organisation wide.
• Co-create strategies with vulnerable individuals, outcome-based supervision, leading teams, change management, challenging poor practice, motivating staff, quality assurance, recruitment, disciplinary processes, managing finances, and purchaser/provider relationships.
• Manage administration systems, duty rosters, policies, annual reports, budgets, and individual finances.
• Ensure compliance, participate in inspections, and liaise with regulatory bodies.
• Audit and improve service performance, facilitate reviews, implement improvement plans, and encourage innovation.
• Address concerns, meet regularly with management, and use emergency on-call facilities as needed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders including people we work for, families, carers, assistants, team leaders, coordinators, managers, senior team, Care Inspectorate and SSSC.

You will have or be willing to work towards an appropriate qualification for the post as defined by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). You will be able to demonstrate commitment to Continued Professional Development.

The benefits we offer:

As part of Wheatley Care, we offer a sector-leading benefits package.
The successful candidate will receive:

• a rewarding career with a competitive salary;
• access to a contributory pension scheme;
• excellent leave entitlement;
• enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave;
• contributions towards dental, optical, driving lessons and more;
• access to staff inclusion networks promoting an inclusive workplace; and
• 24/7 access to our employee assistance programme.

Committed to inclusion:

Wheatley Care is always looking to improve diversity within our teams. We want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute their best work and achieve their full potential.

We actively celebrate our individual differences and recognise the collective strength this brings the organisation. It’s important our teams represent the communities we serve, and we welcome applications from any under-represented groups.

Closing date: 5pm on Friday, 6 March 2026.

For an application pack and detailed job profile, please click here.
For a chat about the role, please contact Kelly Lavery Head of Care on 07584798875 or kelly.lavery@wheatley-group.com

We want all our candidates to shine. If you need any reasonable adjustments to help you feel more comfortable during the recruitment process, on behalf of Wheatley Care please contact recruitment@wheatley-group.com.