//]]> The National Autistic Society Careers

Support Worker (Part-time 24 Hours)

Location: Cardiff

Closing Date: 22 May 2024

Interview date (w/c): 24 May 2024

Salary (or hourly rate): £14,976 (£12.00 per hour)

Contract Type: Part Time

Hours per week: 24

Support Worker (Part-time 24 Hours)

We are looking for Support Workers with the passion to work with our fantastic team in our Cardiff Autism Centre.  Ideally, you will have a background in supporting autistic people but if not, we have a fantastic training programme that will get you on your way to achieving a fulfilling job that will beat most out there. 

Our Cardiff Autism Centre (including Ty Ddraig, Ty Yfory and Ty Mor) provides a range of quality, personalised support for autistic adults offering a wide variety of opportunities. The centre is a move-on service providing educational, work and social opportunities to build on attained independence and skill levels. We promote Person-Centred Planning to seek the opinions, wishes and choices of people who access the centre, as well as working on shared outcomes derived from the Social Care Wales personal outcomes framework.

The role includes:

  • Helping individuals achieve independence and personal goals
  • Supporting and transporting individuals to integrate into their community
  • Develop individuals home making skills and personal chores
  • Transforming lives and achieving results for autistic adults

Job Description

We need you to be: Resilient, supportive and sensitive towards the needs of autistic people. Being a support worker takes passion, patience and commitment. But working with autistic people gives so much more in return.

To protect our autistic adults, all staff are required to have a criminal background check.  

  • We offer

    • Excellent training and development programme
    • Career progression opportunities
    • Enhanced overtime. Additional payments for sleep-in and on call.
    • Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance counselling programme
    • Competitive pension scheme
    • 33 days annual leave (incl. Public Holidays)
    • Access to our benefits portal - online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple, Nando's and loads more!
    • Cycle to work scheme
    • Headspace membership for yourself + 3 friends/family members - Headspace is a global leader in mindfulness and meditation
    • Occupational sick pay
    • Salary Finance - Our charity partner offers Salary Finance loans as a financial wellbeing benefit for our staff.
    • Eligibility for Blue Light Card
    • Join the Team Scheme - Refer a friend and receive £200!
    • Level 1 membership to Healthcare Cash Plan for all permanent staff!
    • We are excited to announce up to 14 new benefits which launched in April 2023 including private health and dental insurance

To apply for the role, please click the button at the end of this page to apply online.

We are passionate about supporting autistic people into work, and particularly welcome applications from autistic people. We help autistic people from all backgrounds and strive to represent the same diversity in our staff and volunteers. We particularly encourage applications from people from all minority groups, who are currently under-represented in our workforce. Together, we can create a society that works for autistic people.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Apply now