Advertised from 27 October 2025

Role

The Yard is an award-winning charity that runs adventure play services for children with disabilities and/or additional support needs and their families.  

We are looking for individuals who have the special ability to support and encourage play activities on a 1 to 1 basis with children and young people with disabilities and medically complex needs. 

About the role & your responsibilities:

As a Support Worker at Holiday Support, you will play an active role in the set-up, delivery and development of play activities, encouraging and enabling children and young people to play and socialise in an inclusive way. There will be some requirement to assist and undertake personal care with individual children when required.

About you:

Do you get a buzz from helping children and young people create laughter, mess and happy memories? Then we would love you to be a part of our team. 

This job is for you if you have:

• Experience of working with children and young people in a play or youth work setting or, alternatively, in a home environment
• An empathetic approach with the ability to trust in others
• An ability to work in a flexible manner, as an individual and as part of a team
• The ability to register to successfully with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), and undertake an acceptable PVG check

Application notes

To understand more about the role, please download our Support Worker – Holiday Support job description here: 

https://theyardscotland.org.uk/jobs/support-worker-holiday-support-2/ 

Please complete the job application form and equal opportunities monitoring form available on our website and return them to: [email protected] 

Closing date: Wednesday 26th November at 09:00am

We’ll acknowledge all applications and intend to hold interviews from Wednesday 3rd December

We very much welcome previous experience working as: Care Assistant, Care Worker, Carer, Domiciliary Carer, Pupil Support Assistant, Nursery Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Personal Assistant