Supervisor

As a supervisor, you could:

• plan workloads and rotas
• allocate tasks to team members
• brief teams on targets, initiatives and policy changes
• report on team performance and do individual performance reviews
• keep up to date with regulations

• leadership skills
• the ability to motivate and manage staff
• the ability to organise your time and workload
• to be thorough and pay attention to detail
• the ability to use your initiative
• patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
• excellent verbal communication skills
• business management skills
• to be able to use a computer and the main software packages competently

You can get into this job through:

• an apprenticeship
• working towards this role
• applying directly

With training and experience, you could move into middle management and then senior management positions.

You could also move into a different industry.