Health and Wellbeing Team Leader

Wheatley Care

Post title: Health and Wellbeing Team Leader

Salary: £33,417 - £35,565 per annum

Location: Personalised and SDS (Glasgow)

Posts: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

This role is subject to a satisfactory PVG check and registration with SSSC is required.

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 and independent organisation and strengthening our care service 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.

About the role

If you’re like us and are passionate about providing high-quality, person-centred support which focuses on encouraging individuals to reach their full potential, come and join Wheatley Care.

Our dedicated and highly experienced staff provide the best quality of care and support, focusing on the individual and their own personal aspirations.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a talented Health and Wellbeing Team Leader to join our established team at Personalised and SDS (Glasgow). As we embark on the next stage of our journey delivering truly outstanding, highly personalised care and support services.

Our specialist team support the people we work from 7am until 11pm with a sleepover on site. Those living in our care at home and housing support accommodation often have complex needs.

The service offers a range of support to adults with learning disabilities, acquired brain injury, dementia, mental health diagnosis and alcohol dependency needs.

If you are motivated and committed to making a positive difference to people’s lives, this could be exactly the opportunity you’re looking for.

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 entitlements;
• 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: 1 May 2026 at 5pm

For a chat about the role, please contact Tracey Martin, Health and Wellbeing Manager on 07584798952 or tracey.martin@wheatley-care.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-care.com

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