The National Autistic Society is here to transform lives, challenge perceptions and build a society that works for autistic people. Our supported living services are for autistic adults who need extra help to live in their own homes or within our accommodation, whether as tenants or owner occupiers, living alone, or with others.

Visit our website to find out more about who we are and what we do: autism.org.uk

Who we are looking for:

As part of our commitment to delivering high-quality, person-centred adult social care, we are seeking a Registered Locality Manager to join our regional leadership team to drive operational transformation across our adult services. This role will play a key part in ensuring sustainable, high-quality services, developing our housing strategy, and enhancing workforce development to equip staff with the specialist knowledge needed to support autistic adults effectively. A fantastic opportunity to drive transformational change.

This is a varied and hands-on position, perfect for someone passionate about improving quality, championing best practices, and supporting frontline leaders through change. You’ll work across a cluster of services, coaching and guiding Service Managers to ensure services are efficient, person-centred, and built on specialist, evidence-based approaches.

Key responsibilities will be:

• Service Leadership & Management
• Team Leadership & Workforce Wellbeing
• Quality, Compliance & Practice Leadership
• Financial & Operational Accountability
• Partnership & Person-Centred Culture
• Digital Competence & Systems Management

This role is working 35 hours a week, Monday – Sunday according to service need. Salary £55k – 60k depending on experience.

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What we can offer you:

• Auto-enrolled Pension Scheme
• 33 days annual leave (incl. Public Holidays) with the option to buy or sell annual leave every year
• Excellent induction, training and development programme including training about autism
• Online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits such as cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan & shopping discounts for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple and loads more!
• Healthcare Cash Plan (for permanent staff members)
• Life Assurance at 2 x base salary
• A portfolio of fantastic new salary sacrifices benefits and other flexible benefits private health, dental insurance, car salary sacrifice scheme, activity pass, holiday trading, enhanced pension & salary deduct loans (eligibility criteria may apply)
• Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme & counselling programme
• Free access to the Headspace App – a global leader in mindfulness and you can enrol up to three friends or family members for free!
• Eligibility for a Blue Light Card
• Enhanced overtime. Additional payments for sleep-in and on call
• Join the Team Scheme - Refer a friend and receive £200

Where you will be working:

Catrine Village, East Ayrshire

Catrine Bank is one of our supported living services in East Ayrshire, Scotland. With the river Ayr running adjacent, Catrine village is a beautiful, remote and rural area with access to varied county walks and National Trust locations within easy access. The service has three houses each with four supported living flats.