Full Time Team Leader Surrey Community Services - Godalming, United Kingdom - The National Autistic Society

The National Autistic Society

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Godalming, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Full time

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Help transform lives by joining our team.

A breakthrough can seem like the smallest thing, but it can make the world of difference to someone on the autism spectrum.

By becoming a team leader you'll help make everyday breakthroughs happen more often.

We need you to be resilient, supportive and sensitive towards the needs of autistic people and ideally have a background in supporting people with autism in previous roles within a social care environment.

You may have a personal connection, a desire to work with or real life experiences working with autistic people.
You'll have experience in a senior support worker or team leader role, the desire to progress your career, and if you **share our values and are willing to make a difference to the lives of autistic people, we'd love to hear from you.

Along with a host of benefits - from shopping discounts to flexible working and a competitive pension scheme - we'll make sure you get excellent autism-specific training to further your career in social care.

We are looking for a
Team Leader to work in our community services based in Surrey.

You will be working with autistic individuals across the community in Surrey Previous experience of working with people who exhibit challenging behaviour is essential in this role, as well as a talent for managing a group of highly experienced staff.

We are looking for an individual who has substantial experience in supporting people with Autism and has a passion for supporting autistic adults (including those with Asperger syndrome and PDA).

Our community services currently supports 3 adult males in a safe environment and you will be working in a team of fully trained experienced staff support the people we support to have a good quality of life, ensuring support and activities are meaningful to each individual.

We support the residents to develop their skills and independence.

You will need to be enthusiastic and willing to help individuals with a variety of care and support needs including:

Accessing the community, shopping, social outings and leisure activities
Drive service users to and from their homes
Domestic tasks like cooking and personal care
Administering medication
Budgeting and care planning

Please see the job description for further requirements for this role

Help transform lives by joining our team TODAY

You'll be joining our team, both locally and nationally and we'll support you every step of the way with our robust training and development programmes

Visit our website to find out more about who we are and what we do.

Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks which will include references and enhanced DBS checks