Senior Autism Practitioner

Struan Residences - Alloa
Full Time Position - 37 hours
£28,840 - £30,900

About us:

Scottish Autism is dedicated to enabling autistic people to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives. We believe in the power of relationships to transform the lives of the people we support. We help build a more caring, compassionate, and inclusive Scotland, relationship by relationship. Our people work in teams, supporting each other through the challenges and triumphs that happen every day. Our organisation is our people, and the human qualities they bring to their roles.

About the job:

We are now looking for a Senior Autism Practitioner to join our service at Struan Residences in Alloa.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a creative and forward-thinking leader to manage a fantastic service that transforms people’s lives for the better.

As the Senior Autism Practitioner, you’ll ensure the successful delivery of our services in Struan. Leading a team of dedicated Autism Practitioners, you will inspire them to provide a high-quality support service to individuals with Autism and complex needs. You will coach and mentor them to ensure they perform to the best of their ability.

Using your outstanding communication skills, you’ll collaborate with agencies, multi-disciplinary teams and families to implement support plans to help individuals to succeed in their day-to-day lives.

Actively involving yourself in the recruitment process, you will always be on the lookout for talented individuals who could make the team even stronger.

This is a superb opportunity to undertake exceptional training and lead a hard-working team to success.

We need people who share the following values with Scottish Autism.

Our Values are:

- Collaboration - we work with others and value their opinions
- Compassion - we work with each other and our service users with care and kindness
- Change Makers - we never stand still, we move positively forward always focussed on quality and being the best
- Contribution - we love what we do, we never lose sight of our purpose and the difference we make in society

About you:

To be considered for this diverse role, you must have:

- Experience gained within a supervisory and/or management role
- A health and social care qualification, or the willingness to gain an SVQ Level 4 in health & social care and Leadership and Management for Care Services (LMC) qualification provided by the organisation
- A good level of IT literacy, including MS Word and Excel

As part of your role, you will be required to undertake shift work, including weekends, evenings and required for on-call, so flexibility towards working hours is key.

We will offer you:

- A competitive salary
- 32 days’ holiday (which increases with your length of service)
- Long service awards
- Employee Benefits offering discounts to High Street Shops, Cinemas and Gym Memberships
- Free access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Non-contributory life assurance scheme
- Workplace Pension
- Sector leading training from day one
- The opportunity to be part of one of the leading innovators in Autism Practice in the UK

The successful candidate must be willing to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.

Please note all new employees must register with the SSSC within 6 months of starting in post. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified within 3 years.

Scottish Autism operates a policy where only successful applicants will be contacted. Candidates who have not received written confirmation within two weeks of the closing date for the position should consider themselves unsuccessful.

Scottish Autism is a smoke free organisation. Our aim is to protect the Health and Wellbeing of our employees and the individuals we support by providing a smoke free environment.

Please contact Hannah Smith, HR Business Partner, should you require further information.

Closing Date - 8th July 2022

Interview Date - W/C 18th July 2022

Valuing diversity and promoting equal opportunities is at the heart of our vision, mission and values.

We encourage and welcome applications from people with lived experience of autism.

Registered charity number is SC009068

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Other organisations may refer to this role as Support Worker, Autism Support Worker, Senior Support Worker, Senior Care Worker, Senior Carer, Care Assistant, Personal Care Assistant, Senior Social Care Worker, Senior Social Worker, or Carer.