Senior Practitioner

Role: Senior Practitioner Location: South Lanarkshire Service: Autism Support Salary: £33,000 - £36,500 Reporting to the Services Manager, this role is to support practitioner teams to deliver high quality support to autistic individuals. Key Responsibilities: * To lead and develop both autism services and team practitioners to deliver the highest quality of support in line with Care Inspectorate and SSSC * Ensure a supported care environment, meeting each individuals care needs and health and social care standards. * Staff management - ensure staff are trained to be able to achieve short term and long term objectives, rotas, support with disciplinaries where necessary, identify areas for improvement and contribute in 1:1 meetings * Provide on call support * Financial management and budget monitoring * Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders * Carry out audits Requirements/Experience * SVQ4 in Health and Social Care (or willingness to work towards) and Leadership and Management certificate * A strong understanding and knowledge of autism * Experience in management or a team leader role * Rota management * IT skills Role is subject to PVG disclosure check. For any queries on this role please email Robyn at (url removed) Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age