Head of Services
We support people to understand their diagnosis and how this may impact on their life and the lives of those around them. Our residential services provide accommodation and support for autistic adults 52 weeks a year, 24 hours a day in urban and rural settings. We also provide supported living services for autistic adults who need extra help to live in their own homes or within our accommodation, whether as tenants or owner occupiers, living alone, or with others.
We have come a long way but there is still so much to do to increase opportunities, reduce social isolation and build a brighter future for people on the spectrum. With your help, we can make it happen.
The National Autistic Society is here to transform lives, challenge perceptions and build a society that works for autistic people.
Visit our website to find out more about who we are and what we do: https://www.autism.org.uk/
Who we are looking for:
We are seeking to appoint an experienced manager to the role of Head of Services (Wales). This is an exciting career development opportunity.
The role is to:
- Lead and monitor all aspects of the management of the designated adult services, including development and strategy; growing the number and range of services in your area
- Support Service and Registered Managers in the effective management and quality of all services and in the compliance with care standards legislation and NAS ethos, policies and procedures.
- Take a lead role in the Project management of adult service developments.
We know you will bring with you extensive knowledge of the adult services directorate and the current issues facing our services. You will need to demonstrate strong leadership skills, a track record of evaluating and monitoring service delivery, a passion and drive for improvement and commercial acumen to ensure the stability of services within a challenging financial and people context.
Bringing a collaborative and engaging approach to managing services, you should equally be able to make difficult decisions, have difficult conversations and be able to face challenge ensuring the needs of the people we support and our colleagues who provide that support are front and centre.
This is a Full Time/Permanent Position, working 35 Hours Per Week. The Salary for this role starts from £54,080.00 to £56,397.87 Per Annum (Depending on Experience).
What we can offer you:
- Auto-enrolled Pension Scheme
- 33 days annual leave (incl. Public Holidays) with the option to buy or sell annual leave every year
- Excellent induction, training and development programme including training about autism
- Online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits such as cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan & shopping discounts for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple and loads more!
- Healthcare Cash Plan (for permanent staff members)
- Life Assurance at 2 x base salary
- A portfolio of fantastic new salary sacrifices benefits and other flexible benefits private health, dental insurance, car salary sacrifice scheme, activity pass, holiday trading, enhanced pension & salary deduct loans (eligibility criteria may apply)
- Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme & counselling programme
- Free access to the Headspace App – a global leader in mindfulness and you can enrol up to three friends or family members for free!
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card
- Enhanced overtime. Additional payments for sleep-in and on call
- Join the Team Scheme - Refer a friend and receive £200
Where you will be working:
Wales HQ, Cardiff Admin Office
About our application process:
When providing a supporting statement, please refer to the job description and person specification and include any information that shows your suitability for the role.
For more information about this job please contact: Claire Graham (Assistant Director Operations- North)- Claire.Graham@nas.org.uk
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
To protect our autistic adults, all staff are required to have a criminal background check. Possession of an Enhanced DBS Check either on the Update Service or conducted within the last 12 months would be preferable but not essential.
Applications for this job are sought from anyone who is suitably qualified and experienced for the role but particularly welcome from those with a diagnosis of autism.
The National Autistic Society is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and adults who use our services and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
