Current Vacancies

Head of Service

Location: Linlithgow, on-site
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week (Monday–Friday, typically 8am–5pm)
Salary: circa £55,000

Are you ready to lead and shape services that make a real difference?

We are seeking a driven and proactive Head of Service to provide senior leadership across Donaldsons Adult and Wellbeing Services. This is a pivotal role with overall accountability for ensuring our services are safe, compliant, high-quality and truly person-centred, with a strong focus on excellence in practice and continuous improvement.

Acting as the Registered Manager, you will oversee the day-to-day delivery of our Care Inspectorate registered services, Gate, Treehouse and Vibe, ensuring positive outcomes for the neurodivergent people we support and embedding co-production at the heart of service design and delivery.

This role requires a leader who is forward-thinking, adaptable and confident in responding to complexity. You will bring strong safeguarding knowledge and experience alongside the ability to balance hands-on operational leadership with strategic oversight to continuously improve services and maximise impact.

For more information and to apply, please contact Dominic O’Malley at domalley@compassltd.co.uk.

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Learning and Wellbeing Practitioner

Location: Linlithgow, West Lothian

Hours: Full time Term time, 32.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE), Monday to Thursday, between 8:30am and 4:30pm and 8:30am and 1:00pm on Friday

Salary: £22,481.63 per annum (£14.96 per hour)

We are looking to recruit a proactive, empathetic and flexible Learning and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Sensational Learning Centre (a grant aided special school for neurodivergent children with complex additional support needs) on a full-time permanent basis.

Joining Donaldson’s as a Learning and Wellbeing Practitioner offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to our supportive and dynamic school community, with a focus on high-quality teaching and learning.

You will work collaboratively to create a motivating and safe learning environment which takes account of individual pupil needs and ensures the highest quality of support and safeguarding standards.

Experience of working with individuals with additional support needs, good understanding of safeguarding and commitment to Donaldsons’ values and ethos are essential. You will be proficient in reading and writing (and hold National 4 or equivalent in English and Maths), be a confident communicator, and able to respond flexibly to changing circumstances while providing structured and consistent support that needs individual support needs.

You will align with our purpose, values and attributes of being professional, dependable, collaborative, curious and adaptable and if you are able use and/or understand BSL, that is a bonus!

What we offer?

An opportunity to work in a values-led, inclusive school environment where pupil voice and wellbeing are at the heart of decision making
Small class sizes
Ongoing professional development
A culture of collegiate support, innovation and reflective practice
A meaningful opportunity to make a long-lasting difference to pupils who face significant barriers to education
Term time contract means summer and other school holiday periods off (in line with West Lothian Council school term dates)

The post is based in Linlithgow and is subject to PVG Scheme Record/Update.

Please review the full job description available here.

Closing date: Thursday 28^th May at 9am

Interviews will be held on Friday 5^th June 2026

To apply, please fill in our application form available here.

If you would like to discuss the role further, have any questions, or would like any assistance with your application, please contact us on people@donaldsons.org.uk and we would be happy to help.