Shift Leader in Cupar, Scotland

Location: Beechwood- Cupar Area Northeast Fife

Hours: 39 hours per week

Hourly Rate: £13.32

About Real Life Options

At Real Life Options, we believe everyone has the right to live their best life. We provide tailored support to people with learning disabilities and autism, empowering them to live independently, engage in their communities, and achieve meaningful outcomes. We are currently recruiting a dedicated Shift Lead to join our team. If you have experience in a similar support or supervisory role and have a genuine passion for making a difference, we would love to hear from you. An enhanced Adult PVG is required for this role.

As the Shift Lead, your duties will include:

• 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.

Benefits and Rewards:

• A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff).
• Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first-rate job.
• An employer contributory pension scheme.
• Mileage paid at 35p per mile at flat rate up to 10,000 miles per year.
• Health Cash Plan (for full/part-time contracted hours).
• £10,000 Life cover.
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information).
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• A financial wellbeing scheme.
• Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply).
• Recognition Initiatives.

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

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.

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