Job Description
Community Advisor - Advice Line
Community Advisor
Communities Team - Advice Line
Location: Flexible / Homeworking with community outreach work
Permanent, Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Working days: Wednesday - Friday (occasionally there may be a requirement to work outside of these days)
Salary: £30,869 - £33,039 pro rata
Ref: SA1091
About us:
Scottish Autism is dedicated to enabling autistic people to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives. We believe in the power of relationships to transform the lives of the people we support. We help build a more caring, compassionate, and inclusive Scotland, relationship by relationship. Our people work in teams, supporting each other through the challenges and triumphs that happen every day. Our organisation is our people, and the human qualities they bring to their roles.
About the role:
An exciting opportunity for a committed and motivated Community Advisor has arisen to join our Community Advice Line Team. Reporting to the Senior Community Advisor, your role will be to deliver a range of free to access community services to the autistic/autism community and other stakeholders. The roles core workstream is the Advice Line which informs the development of community services, as well as Get Set 4 Autism and Click and Connect. These services are needs led, which grow and develop overtime.
Scottish Autism's Advice Line supports thousands of enquiries each year, providing a direct first response to autistic people, their families, as well as professionals who are looking for autism specialist information, advice and support.
Due to the nature of the role there is an element of home working, as well as a requirement for travel to support community outreach, engaging with autistic/autism communities, as well as our supported commissioned services. In light of this, a degree of flexibility is required as there may be the need for occasional evening or weekend work.
In this role you will:
* Develop and deliver advice, information, support and guidance to autistic people, their families and professionals via our advice line.
* Support autistic people, and their parents and carers to access our free to access community advice services and events.
* Promote awareness and understanding of the needs of autistic people amongst parents and carers, as well as communities.
* Identify gaps in access to information and support, to inform development of community advice services.
* Support the delivery of new projects and community services as they develop.
About you:
The successful candidate will have:
* Lived Experience and/or autism practice, with the knowledge to apply theory into practice.
* Contemporary knowledge and understanding of autism, autistic people and their families across the lifespan.
* Experience of supporting complex situations where a person might be experiencing heightened levels of distress or confusion.
* Active listening skills and able to respond empathetically.
* Ability to translate complex theoretical knowledge into accessible and practical advice.
* Ability to work in a diverse range of environments to deliver and facilitate support appropriate to the needs of different audiences, such as autistic people, or parents and carers.
* Ability to self-manage and to organise diverse work streams.
* Share Scottish Autism's values; Collaboration, Compassion, Change Makers, Contribution.
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For more information or an informal chat, please contact Zofia Bukiel, Community Advice Services Manager by email: zofia.bukiel@scottishautism.org
Why Join Us?
Scottish Autism are proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package. See some of what we offer HERE
This post is subject to a PVG Disclosure check. Scottish Autism will cover the costs of your PVG membership.
We welcome applications from people with lived experience of autism.
Closing Date: 21 st October
Interview Dates: 31 st October and 5 th November
Valuing diversity and promoting equal opportunities is at the heart of our vision, mission and values.
Registered charity number is SC009068