Vision Rehabilitation Service Manager

We’re looking for a dynamic and compassionate leader to join us as Vision Rehabilitation Service Manager. In this role, you’ll help people with sight loss live the life they choose by leading an operations team that delivers consistent, person-centred services to adults and their families across a designated geographical area.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring high-quality service delivery, managing operational performance, and fostering strong partnerships both internally and externally. This includes overseeing the delivery of Vision Rehabilitation Services, embedding safe practices, and driving continuous improvement through customer feedback and data analysis. You’ll lead and develop a high-performing team, ensuring professional standards, safeguarding compliance, and effective resource planning are maintained.

As part of your strategic responsibilities, you’ll contribute to long-term planning, monitor performance against key indicators, and support change initiatives that align with Guide Dogs’ national goals. You’ll also play a key role in quality assurance, financial oversight, and supporting fundraising efforts where appropriate.

This is a fantastic secondment opportunity to shape the future of Vision Rehabilitation Services and make a meaningful impact in the lives of those we support.

You’ll be working 21 hours across the week, typically from 9am to 5pm between Monday and Friday. Some flexibility will be required to occasionally work outside of these core hours. This role includes line management responsibility for teams across Scotland, and as we value in-person collaboration with both our teams and the people we support, the ability to travel nationally to our sites is essential.

Applications from candidates outside of Scotland will be considered.

How to apply 

Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions as part of this application process, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions.

If you want to know more about the teams who work at Guide Dogs, you can find it on our Careers Page

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud, whenever possible, to offer an interview to all candidates that meet our selection criteria, and who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident interview commitment. For more details, visit our careers site.

If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

Every day is different at Guide Dogs. And no person with sight loss is the same. We work side by side, on our sites and in the community, in schools and on our streets, supporting people to live the life they choose. Our staff therefore also work in different ways to support the delivery of our life changing work.

Safeguarding

Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offense, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.