Senior Autism Practitioner - Clannalba, Lamington

Pay Scale: Starting at £35,871 rising to £36,421 after probation, with the opportunity to progress to £38,294 per annum at your own pace. This salary is inclusive of rural allowance

Full Time, Permanent Position, 37 hours per week

Reference: SA778

Our Clannalba service is recruiting a Senior Autism Practitioners to join their fun and friendly team. Situated in the small village of Lamington, near Biggar, this residence is set in the beautiful countryside with farmland all around. Prior leadership experience is required for this role.

About the Role

As the Senior Autism Practitioner, you’ll ensure the successful delivery of each person’s service within Clannalba. Leading a team of dedicated Autism Practitioners, you will inspire them to provide a high-quality support service to autistic individuals. You will coach and mentor them to ensure they perform to the best of their ability.

Using your outstanding communication skills, you’ll collaborate closely with families, agencies and multi-disciplinary teams to implement and further develop support plans designed to help individuals 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 gather experience of a different role, to undertake additional training and lead a hard-working team to success.

About You

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

- Experience gained within a supervisory and/or management role within social care
- 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

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

We need people who share the following values with Scottish Autism: Collaboration, Compassion, Change Makers, Contribution.

View the full Job Description on our website.

Scottish Autism offers you:

We are proud to offer a comprehensive colleague benefits package which includes a competitive salary and a personalised learning pathway for all. We keep it simple with 3 pay points which you progress at your pace as you develop.

- 30 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

Find out more about our comprehensive benefits package on our website.

This post is subject to a PVG Disclosure check. All new employees must have applied to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 3 months of starting in post and be registered within 6 months. Scottish Autism cover all the costs of PVG membership and SSSC Registration for employees.

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

Closing Date - 13th May

Information Session - 15th May at 5:30pm

Interviews - 19th May

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