About Gheel Autism Services
We focus on supporting individuals with autism through their life journey, enabling them to have fulfilling experiences while having autonomy and control over their choices and decisions.
Gheel Autism Services provides a wide range of services for adults with autism, including day and vocational opportunities, outreach support, and supported living options.
Our Approach
We consider how each person thinks, learns, and processes information to develop a personalised plan of support.
Considering individual strengths and motivations, we enable people to obtain outcomes that are meaningful to them.
Our committed practitioners receive regular training and are equipped with the knowledge and skills to enable each individual to have positive and meaningful life experiences.
All staff are involved in changing the culture of supporting people into a more inclusive, independence-focused style of support – where people are encouraged to be partners in, not recipients of their service delivery.
Benefits
* Access to Educational Support Scheme
* Company pension with company contribution (including income protection and death-in-service benefits)
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Paid Maternity & Paternity Leave (dependent on service)
* Up to 27 days of Annual leave
* Bike to Work scheme
* Training and development (CPD)
* Option to join the Health Service credit union
Job Description: Social Care Worker/Autism Practitioner
This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to join a highly motivated team of skilled professionals from a variety of backgrounds, including social care, psychology, and mental health.
The ideal candidate will proactively support residents in ascertaining how they want and choose to live their lives.
The team promotes the enablement, establishment, enhancement, maintenance, and/or defence of valued social roles for the people we support in line with their will and preference.
The fundamental purpose of this role is to support people in finding meaning and value in their lives while also enjoying a good quality of life.
The biological, social, and psychological well-being of every individual receiving support would be prioritised to enhance overall health and wellbeing.
Requirements
* A Level 7 award in Social Care/Studies delivered by an Institute of Technology, DIT or National University of Ireland
* A relevant qualification received outside the State recognised by NARIC as equivalent to the Irish Level 7 award
* Or a relevant third-level qualification at degree level (social work, psychology, and/or allied health)
* Or a post-graduate qualification in Autism Studies
* Experience of supporting individuals with a diagnosis of ASD and knowledge of Autism
* At least one-year recent experience in the social care sector/ASD
* Excellent IT skills
* You must be eligible for CORU Registration
* A full, clean driver's licence
Salary and Benefits
Successful candidates will be paid in line with the Gheel Autism Services CLG Social Care Worker pay scale point 1; €35,216 - point 12 LSI; €50,954 per annum based on working a 39-hour week.
Annual increments are included.
There is 27 days/210.6 hours of annual leave per annum.