Advertised from 8 August 2025

Role

Are you passionate about empowering children and young people with disabilities?

The Yard offers play and short break services for children and young people with additional support needs and their families, both at our adventure play centres and through outreach in our communities. We design our services to support the whole family, building communities of support through our welcoming culture of inclusion. The Yard runs services for early years, schools, and families, holiday and youth clubs. In addition to play and family support, we offer expert training on play, inclusion, and disability. 

We are looking for a Service Manager who is inspired by our ethos and is excited to bring their knowledge and experience to run our specialised Holiday Support service which is for children with complex medical needs. This service runs during school holiday periods, excluding Christmas and New Year, (Monday–Thursday) providing care for children aged 5-18 years based at Oaklands School, Edinburgh. This service is registered with the Care Inspectorate, and we are looking for an individual to assume the role of Registered Manager. 

While the role of Improvement Lead will involve supporting the Head of Service and Head of Partnerships in ensuring effective evaluation, quality assurance, continuous development and improvement across all our services throughout the year.

The successful candidate will be part of our management team and responsible for making decisions that impact the whole organisation. They’ll join a values-led organisation where collaboration and a child-centred approach are embedded in all we do. We are passionate, so being prepared to work at pace and manage competing priorities is essential.

This job is for you if:

• You have a genuine passion to manage and develop a specialised care service.

• You are eager to be the organisations service expert on holiday support, providing support and advice to other service managers and team leaders.

• You are driven to ensure the service is compliant and improvement focused.

• You can work effectively to maintain and oversee safe operating practices for our services.

Application notes

How to apply

To understand more about the role, please download our Holiday Support Service Manager job description here: https://theyardscotland.org.uk/jobs/holiday-support-service-manager-il/

Please complete the job application form and equal opportunities monitoring form available on our website and return to jobs@theyardscotland.org.uk 

We will acknowledge all applications and intend to hold interviews on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th September

The Yard aims to be an equal opportunity employer and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on any grounds. The above post is subject to a PVG check and SSSC registration.