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.
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.
How to apply
To understand more about the role, please download our Holiday Support Service Manager job description from The Yard's website.
Please complete the job application form and equal opportunities monitoring form available on our website and return to The Yard Recruitment inbox.
We will acknowledge all applications and intend to hold interviews on Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th March.
Second stage interviews will be held on Wednesday 19th March.