Senior Autism Practitioner; Team Leader - South West

Overview

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 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.

As the Senior Autism Practitioner, you ll ensure the successful delivery of each person s service across our South West Services. Leading a team of dedicated Autism Practitioners, you will inspire them to provide a consistent, high-quality support service to autistic people. 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.

• 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 License
• Able to work a variety of shifts including evenings and weekends and support with regular on-call support. This can be discussed further at interview.

• Comprehensive colleague benefits package including a competitive salary and a personalised learning pathway
• 3 pay points with progression as you develop
• 32 days holiday pro rata (increases with length of service)
• Sector leading training from day one, including fully funded SVQ support
• Non-contributory life assurance
• Workplace Pension (Employer matched up to 9%)
• Discount platform
• Employee Assistance Programme

Find out more about our comprehensive benefits package HERE

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 - 10th February 2026

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Registered charity number is SC009068