Working at Capability Scotland

Capability Scotland provides care, education and employment services for disabled children and adults across Scotland.

Founded in 1946, Capability Scotland provides care, education and employment services for disabled children and adults across Scotland.

We work with disabled people, their families and carers to provide a creative mix of services that meet their aspirations at all stages of their lives.

Our specialist knowledge and broad range of flexible services allows us to promote independence and quality of life for disabled people throughout their lives. We also campaign with disabled people on common issues of concern.

Our Vision
Capability Scotland strives to be a major ally in supporting disabled people to have full equality of opportunity and participation as citizens.

Capability Scotland's greatest asset is its people.  Join us.

We offer challenging and rewarding jobs where you can make a real difference to the lives of people who live with a disability and attain a better understanding of the challenges that they face.

Although we predominately offer careers in care and community support services; other opportunities are available in:

• Finance,
• Policy development,
• Campaigning,
• Fundraising,
• IT
• Communications & Marketing
• Teaching, to name but a few!

We look forward to meeting people from a diverse background and value life experience as well as appropriate qualifications for our jobs.

We believe it is crucial that staff are given training which supports their development within their current role and will help them to progress their careers even further, therefore we offer a strong training programme.

Two Ticks Policy

Capability Scotland is a member of the two tick positive about disabled people policy which commits to employ, keep and develop the abilities of its disabled staff.

There are five commitments, these are:

• To interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy and to consider them on their abilities.
• To discuss with disabled employees, at any time but at least once a year, what both parties can do to make sure disabled employees can develop and use their abilities.
• To make every effort when employees become disabled to make sure they stay in employment.
• To take action to ensure that all employees develop the appropriate level of disability awareness needed to make these commitments work.
• To review these commitments each year and assess what has been achieved, plan ways to improve on them and let employees and Jobcentre Plus know about progress and future plans.