Autism Practitioners; Support Workers - SA

Autism Practitioners (Support Workers) – Auchterarder

• Starting  per hour, rising to 14.68 at Confirmed.
• Opportunity to progress to 15.16 at your own pace.
• (Inclusive of rural allowance)
• Full and Part Time Positions Available
• Additional 107.60 for sleepovers worked
• Reference: SA1212
• Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role

Join our team at Appletree Housing Support Service, located near Auchterarder (Postcode PH3 1D), where you'll support an autistic adult in their own home. As an Autism Practitioner, you will help create personalised support plans, build relationships with the supported person, their family and other stakeholders, and work to support the person to lead a happy, healthy and fulfilling life. You will use a low arousal approach in your day‑to‑day practice.

Appletree Community is a close‑knit, rural environment which supports the low arousal approach you will adopt, with excellent indoor and outdoor space for the supported person to enjoy time with their team and participate in a range of community activities.

• Compassionate, collaborative and committed to supporting someone to lead a happy, healthy and fulfilling life
• Enthusiastic about learning on the job
• Able to work a range of shifts which are agreed in advance as part of a rolling rota, including evenings, weekends and sleepovers
• Able to learn and apply a low arousal approach to your practice
• Able to take a trauma informed approach to support
• Share our organisational values
• A UK driver’s licence is desirable

• 30 days holiday pro rata (increases with service)
• Comprehensive training from day one, including funded SVQ support
• Non‑contributory life assurance
• Workplace pension (employer matched up to 9%)
• Discount platform and Employee Assistance Program

For more information about this position, please contact Michelle Melville, Senior Autism Practitioner, by emailing Michelle.

Melville.

Valuing diversity and promoting equal opportunities is at the heart of our vision, mission and values. We encourage and welcome applications from people with lived experience of autism.

Please note this position is not in Dundee or Perth.