Senior Autism Practitioner

Description:

As Senior Autism Practitioner, you will provide day-to-day leadership across a number of adult autism services, supporting frontline teams to deliver consistently high standards of care and support.

Working closely with colleagues, families and external professionals, you will play a key role in maintaining service quality, developing staff capability and ensuring positive outcomes for the people supported.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading, coaching and mentoring a team of support staff

• Supporting the delivery of person-centred services for autistic adults

• Working closely with families, multidisciplinary professionals and external agencies

• Supporting recruitment, induction and staff development activities

• Monitoring service quality and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives

• Ensuring support plans are effectively implemented and reviewed

• Promoting independence, wellbeing and positive outcomes

• Participating in on-call responsibilities as required

This is an excellent opportunity for an aspiring manager or experienced senior practitioner looking to further develop their leadership experience within a specialist autism service.

ABOUT YOU

To be considered for this position, you will ideally possess:

• Previous supervisory, senior practitioner or management experience within social care

• Direct experience supporting autistic individuals

• Strong coaching, mentoring and people development skills

• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities

• A relevant Health and Social Care qualification or willingness to work towards required qualifications

• Good IT literacy including Microsoft Office

• Full UK Driving Licence

• Flexibility to support evenings, weekends and on-call responsibilities when required