Assistant Director, People - National Autistic Society

The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for autistic people. Since 1962, we’ve been transforming lives, changing attitudes and helping to create a society that works for autistic adults and children.

We transform lives by providing support, guidance and practical advice for the 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK, as well as their 3 million family members and carers. Autistic people turn to us at key moments or challenging times in their lives, be it getting a diagnosis, going to school or finding work.

We are and should be very proud of the positive impact we are having on the people we support, their families, their friends and their communities.  However, the climate for social care providers is challenging and as part of our response we have restructured our leadership group to create the exciting position of Assistant Director, People.

Reporting up to the Executive Leadership Team, supervised by our Chief Operating Officer, you will lead the people team to provide HR support across the organisation. Your leadership skills, combined with your experience of improving people functions will enable you to ensure we continue to innovate and enhance our reputation internally and externally. Our people are our biggest asset, we are committed to being an employer of choice in the sectors we operate in.

You will bring significant experience, gained at a senior level in social care, education or other parts of the charity sector which have a large workforce.  You will need to demonstrate a passion for serving internal customers well. We need you to assist the NAS in delivering a dynamic people strategy which will enable us to adapt to the workforce challenges currently facing the sector. Most importantly, you will share our passion for supporting autistic people and their families.

We are passionate about supporting autistic people into work, and particularly welcome applications from autistic people. We help autistic people from all backgrounds and strive to represent the same diversity in our staff and volunteers. We particularly encourage applications from people from all minority groups, who are currently under-represented in our workforce. Together, we can create a society that works for autistic people.  

For more information on this exciting opportunity, please click here, or for an informal, confidential discussion with our recruitment partners at VBS, please call Rob Hilyer on 07952 316 654, or by email at NAS@vbsearch.co.uk