SA749 Community Advisor

Community Advisor

Communities Team – Advice Line

Location: Flexible / Homeworking with community outreach work (this may include evenings)

Permanent, Part time - 26 hours per week

Salary: £30,869 - £33,039 pro rata

Ref: SA749

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 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. This provides support to parents and carers on a 1-1 basis for a period of time, as well as in person parent groups. 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, this requires an element of home working, but also community outreach, engaging with autistic/autism communities, as well as our supported commissioned services.

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.

Click HERE to view the full Job Description

For more information or an informal chat, please contact Sarah-Louise Slater, Senior Community Advisor, by email: sarah-louise.slater@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: 4th February

Valuing diversity and promoting equal opportunities is at the heart of our vision, mission and values.

Registered charity number is SC009068