Already have your SVQ3 Health and Social Care (Children and Young People)? Then you could join us as a Senior Practitioner!
Senior Autism Practitioner – Part Time/Permanent
Salary: Job Grade A £10.66 – £11.32 per hour
Hours of Work: 20 hours per week
Working during evenings in term time usually between 4.00pm and 8.00pm and between 9.00am-5.00pm during Easter, Summer and October School Holidays with overtime available to support our full holiday programme.
Place of Work: The role will be based at our centre in New Row, Perth but will support activities across Perth & Kinross in our outreach hubs
Benefits: + Workplace Pension
+ 28 days annual leave per year (including Christmas/New Year closedown)
+ 1 extra annual leave day on employee’s birthday if this falls on a usual working day
+ Staff Health and Wellbeing Programme
+ Additional annual leave on first day of school if employee has a child starting nursery, primary or secondary school
About this role:
Working in our Children’s Service, you will be involved in the day to day delivery of a range of supported, fun activities for autistic children and young people under the age of 18.
Supporting children to have a fun, safe place to help decrease social isolation, develop peer friendships and to encourage all their many talents and skills!
You will have a passion for fun and for making a difference to young people and have a good understand of systems and processes to support the administrative side of the service.
You will be involved in getting to know the children and families, creating and delivering outcomes and plans for children and get involved in our Care Inspectorate inspection process.
As a Senior Practitioner, you will support Practitioners and volunteers to ensure health and safety and risk assessments are adhered to, get involved in buying resources and ensuring our booking process is managed alongside our Team Leader. You will already have your SVQ3 and keen to take on some more responsibility!
The successful post holder will be expected to register as a practitioner with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and will undertake a PVG check in line with our policies and procedures for safeguarding/Child Protection.
Based from our centre in New Row, Perth, you will support activities in Perth but also within our outreach hubs across Perth & Kinross, therefore a driving licence and access to a car for work would be beneficial (mileage expenses paid).
Application Process
Please download the full job description, application form and Equal Opportunities form and return this electronically to:
recruitment@perthautismsupport.org.uk
or post to
Recruitment, Perth Autism Support SCIO, 14 New Row, Perth, PH1 5QA
If you would like a confidential chat about the role, please contact Ellie Donnan-Thompson, Children’s Services Manager on 01738 451081 or email recruitment@perthautismsupport.org.uk and mark your email for Ellie’s attention.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND MONTORING FORM – YOU CAN COMPLETE THIS ONLINE HERE
https://forms.office.com/e/SiiKPU5SqC
Alternatively, you can download a Word Version with the application pack below
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All of our staff and volunteers are offered the opportunity to undertake a range of training throughout the year.
We have an annual staff training calendar that covers the mandatory requirements we expect all of our staff to attend, but we will support our team to access any additional training relevant to their role to increase confidence and knowledge.
If your role is working directly with children and young people, we can also support you to gain your SVQ3 Health and Social Care (Children and Young People) qualification.
We are passionate about training at Perth Autism Support!
In return for our staff commitment and experience we offer:
As well as our staff training opportunities we want to invest in our staff team and help them to develop their career in our organisation.
For staff keen to progress, we can offer a range of personal development opportunities including mentoring and the opportunity to undertake personal development courses and study.
Accessibility
We value the benefit diversity and inclusion brings and we welcome information on any reasonable adjustments we can make to ensure you can fully participate. For example, this may include support to complete forms, extra time for an interview, access to this information in different formats, or information sheets detailing the interview/assessment process and general housekeeping. Please contact recruitment@perthautismsupport.org.uk to discuss.
We are a Disability Confident Leader organisation. This means that a disabled person who meets the essential criteria for this vacancy will be offered an interview. If you would like your application to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme, then please include in your email/written application – ‘My application should be considered under the Disability Confident scheme.’
NB: there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as a high number of applications. In these instances, we may need to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, we will select the disabled candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the job, rather than all of those that meet the minimum criteria.
As a charitable organisation we are always really keen to hear from anyone who would like to donate their time to support the work we do.
We have various volunteering opportunities available including:
Volunteering is a great way to give back to our community whilst developing new skills or enhancing your CV.
We would love to chat to you if you would like to donate your time, contact us on recruitment@perthautismsupport.org.uk or fill out the contact form below!
Thanks to the Volunteer Upskilling Fund, Perth & Kinross Council we are delighted to offer 5 x places on our Volunteer Employability Pathway.
This is a fantastic opportunity if you think you would like a career working with children and young people but would like to try out before you commit to work.
We have 3 x opportunities within our Children’s Services team (working with young people from age 3 – secondary age) and 2 x opportunities in our Young Adult team (working with young people age 14+ years). You will be working alongside our teams to deliver fun, group social activities for autistic children and young people.
Whilst you are learning key work skills, you will also access our Employability programme (6 sessions at 2 hours each) and as an SQA Approved Centre, we will support you to gain an SVQ level 3 or 4 in Employability.
All we ask is that you commit to volunteering with us for a minimum of 2 hours per week and be motivated to complete your SVQ.
A great way to try whether social care/youth work is a career path you would like to pursue, gain a qualification and have some brilliant experience to put on your CV!
Interested to find out more?
Contact us on recruitment@perthautismsupport.org.uk or fill out the contact form below!
If you choose to donate your time to work at Perth Autism Support SCIO, we will:
“When I first started PAS, I was a very shy person and didn’t know very much of what life was like in a workplace. I couldn’t have had a more welcoming group of people to work with than the PAS staff. I am extremely grateful to have had this amazing opportunity where I have learnt so much, not just about Autism, but what it means to be a volunteer. Even just a hour a week can make a change be it small or big. Volunteering at PAS has really helped to develop my confidence and my ability to adapt to an unknown environment.”
