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Are you looking for your next step in your social care career? Are you a dynamic leader who thrives on building strong relationships, adapting to new challenges, and bringing out the best in others? If you're passionate about coaching and developing teams to grow and succeed together, this is your opportunity to lead with purpose and make a lasting impact. Join our friendly and dedicated team as a Senior Autism Practitioner in our South West area with services across: Carluke, Biggar and Lanark. Across our South West Area Services, we support 48 autistic adults across several welcoming locations. Our care is tailored to each person’s needs, including Housing Support, residential care, and transitional assessment services. You’ll be joining a warm, dedicated team that’s passionate about making a real difference and always looking for ways to grow and improve.
Job Responsibility:
Ensure the successful delivery of each person’s service across our South West Services
Lead a team of dedicated Autism Practitioners
Inspire team to provide a consistent, high-quality support service to autistic people
Coach and mentor team
Collaborate closely with families, agencies and multi-disciplinary teams to implement and further develop support plans
Actively involve yourself in the recruitment process
Requirements:
Experience gained within a supervisory and/or management role within social care
Demonstrated experience in supporting autistic people
Experience coaching and mentoring colleagues
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
A Full UK Driving Licence
The ability to work a variety of shifts, including evenings and weekends and support with regular on-call support
What we offer:
32 days’ holiday pro rata (which increases with your length of service)
Sector leading training from day one, including fully funded support to complete your necessary SVQ
Non-contributory life assurance scheme
Workplace Pension (Employer matched up to 9%)
Discount platform
Employee Assistance Programme
Scottish Autism cover all the costs of PVG membership and SSSC Registration for employees