PBS Practitioner

Our Client provides a safe, nurturing environment and tailored support to enable people with Learning Disabilities to live happy, fulfilling and independent lives. Our promise to our service users is to deliver personalised care and support to meet their needs, and as a PBS Practitioner, you will be key to ensuring the support teams are able to contribute to that high standard of care, through the implementation of Positive Behaviour Support. Reporting to the Group Training Manager/PBS Lead Practitioner, you will work flexibly to meet the PBS needs of the individuals we support.

As a PBS Practitioner, you will be passionate about improving the quality of life for those living within our services and achieving improved outcomes. You will achieve this through providing high quality PBS advice, training and implementation across the tiers of support. You will play a key role in supporting teams to create enabling environments and reducing behaviour-based barriers to progression.

You will ensure that the service meets the physical, environmental, social, and emotional wellbeing of each individual person in a way that respects the dignity of the individual and promotes independence and wellbeing. This position will include networking across services to provide PBS support, giving opportunity to develop wider experience. You must be committed to the development of the teams and the homes mission to achieve the PBS quality framework. You will do this by:

• Providing PBS guidance and support to the services
• Providing coaching, training and mentoring to the teams
• Supporting the embedding of Active support, Creating capable environments, Human rights, Trauma informed care, Restraint reduction and Focused based support.
• Conduct individual assessments, including for those displaying behaviours of concern
• Support the teams to Implement PBS and restraint reduction plans
• Provide guidance with pro-active strategies of support and risk management plans
• Represent the PBS support team as part of MDT meetings, as required
• Monitor and analyse behavioural data, and create reports evidencing behavioural incident reduction
• Attend and facilitate best practice meetings

Requirement of role

Understanding the experiences and needs of those you will be supporting is extremely important. Therefore, the successful candidate will:

Have achieved, or is working towards a level 4 PBS qualification

Have a minimum 2 years’ experience within the Health and Social Care sector

Understanding of MCA/DoLS, Restraint Reduction, Human Rights, Creating capable environments, Trauma Informed Care, Positive Behaviour Support and Supporting Behaviours of concern

Excellent interpersonal, prioritisation and communication skills, both verbal and written

Understands the use of functional assessment and intervention

Communicates complex and sensitive information effectively

Have proven experience of working with people who display behaviours of concern

Be willing to train in physical intervention

Is confident with teamwork, leadership and effective communication skills, self- motivation, and the ability to use own initiative, excellent organisational and time management skills.

Is willing to travel to service locations group-wide

Is well presented, punctual, reliable and professional at all times

Is able to maintain appropriate and accurate records of all documentation, making timely submissions of the planning outcomes achieved, and to evaluate all risk management plans

Can make ongoing adjustments and recommendations to ensure the plan of care is of a consistently high standard and that the needs of the individuals are being met, with all risks reduced as far as possible

Can maintain your own continuous professional development (CPD) by attending and participating in identified meetings and learning opportunities, to enhance your own skills and knowledge

Pay and reward

 In return, you can expect the following benefits:

• • Competitive salary of £35,000.00
  • Mileage allowance
  • Laptop and mobile phone
  • Personal allowance for expenses
  • Company pension
  • Access to the employee assistance programme
  • Flexible working

Most of all, you will be working within a supportive team of professionals, who want to develop and invest in you!!