Shift Leader in Glasgow

Job Title: Female Shift Lead

Location: Glasgow

Hours: 39 hours per week

Hourly Rate: £13.32

Female Applicants only

Responsibilities

• Managing the day‑to‑day running of services.
• Participating in hands‑on support, including personal care, medication administration, and household tasks.
• Planning and managing staff rotas to ensure consistent and effective service coverage.
• Providing staff supervision, observation, and ongoing performance management.
• Completing audits and ensuring all service documentation is accurate and compliant.
• Developing and reviewing support plans and risk assessments.
• Reporting and recording accidents and incidents accurately.
• Liaising with families, local authorities, and health professionals to ensure effective partnership working.

You will have dedicated off‑rota time to complete management and administrative tasks, in addition to working as part of the staff team when required.

Qualifications

• All applicants must have a SVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care (or willingness to work towards this qualification).
• Driving licence is preferred.
• Enhanced Adult PVG is required.

Benefits & Rewards

• Minimum of 28 days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro‑rata for part‑time staff).
• Accredited training to deliver a first‑rate job.
• Employer contributory pension scheme.
• Mileage paid at 35p per mile up to 10,000 miles per year.
• Health Cash Plan for full/part‑time contracted hours.
• £10,000 Life cover.
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face‑to‑face counselling, debt, financial and legal information).
• Reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Financial wellbeing scheme.
• Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (Terms and Conditions apply).
• Recognition initiatives.

Initial Contact

Initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Accessibility

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or an individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we\’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best – please let us know.

EEO Statement

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.