Senior Support Worker - Carryduff
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Are you passionate about working with autistic people and their families? We are looking to recruit Senior Support workers to provide direct 121 support to autistic children and young people at our social activities based in our Carryduff Autism centre. This is a bank role and includes week nights and weekends. We are a passionate, innovative and committed team and are looking for similar individuals to join us. We provide excellent training. Closing date for applications is: 31st May 2024
Who we are
We are the UK’s leading Autism charity. We aim to transform lives, change attitudes, and create a more inclusive society for autistic individuals. We provide a wide range of high quality that includes personalised support services for autistic individuals and their families.
No two days are the same. If you like new challenges and making a difference to people’s lives this may be the perfect opportunity for you. We have a fantastic training programme that will get you on your way to achieving a fulfilling job that will beat most out there.
Your working pattern in this role will require flexibility to meet the needs of the people supported and their families, and will include evening and weekend working.
Please click here for a Job Description
We need you to be: Resilient, supportive and sensitive towards the needs of autistic people. Being a Senior Support Worker takes leadership skills, patience and commitment. But working with autistic people gives so much more in return.
In addition, we offer a whole range of benefits including:
- Excellent training and development programme
- Career progression opportunities
- Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance counselling programme
- 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!
- Headspace membership for yourself + 3 friends/family members - Headspace is a global leader in mindfulness and meditation
You may have a personal connection, a desire to work with or real life experiences working with autistic people.
You’ll be joining our team, both locally and nationally and we’ll support you every step of the way.
To apply for the role, please click the button at the end of this page to apply online.
Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks which will include reference and criminal background checks.
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.
