Regional PBS Specialist Practitioner

Community Integrated Care • Full-time • Liverpool, Merseyside • 1m ago

Community Integrated Care is currently seeking a passionate and experienced Regional PBS Specialist Practitioner to join our PBS team covering our North West and North East region, on a full time, permanent basis.

The PBS Specialist Practitioner will be the Regional Lead in the delivery of high Quality Positive Behavioural Support, and be key to monitoring Increase of Quality of life for the people supported.

What is The Deal for you?

Flexibility! You can work your full time hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or work over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments. You need to be available to travel to services throughout the region as required.
Competitive Salary: £32,000 - £36,000 (dependant on experience and qualifications) + £3K car allowance
Pension: contributory pension scheme
Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
Best Lives Possible: You'll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives possible
Development: We'll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We're passionate about developing our people!
Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you'll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life

Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

As a PBS Specialist Practitioner, You will work directly with support teams and the main areas of the role will be:

Functional Behaviour Assessments
PBS support planning
PBS implementation via a variety of method including workshops
Incident analysis and debrief

A pro-active, compassionate and motivated professional, you will demonstrate exceptional experience and knowledge of supporting people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours and be committed to securing the best outcomes for them.

Day to Day:

Shaping Positive Behavioural Support in services through coaching and mentoring
Reinforcing the importance and implementations of Behaviour Support Plans
Integrating other evidence-based interventions and approaches to meet the individual’s needs
Liaising with other clinical specialists
Undertaking functional assessments
Working alongside teams to develop and evaluate intervention plans
Providing advice and guidance to managers, advanced support workers, support workers and families.
Keeping up-to-date with best practice through literature reviews, attendance at conferences and relevant forums
Leading on the development and implementation of restrictive intervention reduction plans
Identifying instances where more extensive PBS training would be beneficial
Working with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure high standards of practice
To provide bespoke PBS and Active support training to service.

Your values:

Our ideal Candidate:

You always striving to get the best out of people through coaching and mentoring by identifying when additional training is required.
You get the job done – Reinforcing the importance of Positive Behaviour Support Plans and implementing these.
You keep yourself up to date with best practice through literature reviews, attendance at conferences and relevant forums.
You have the highest standard when it comes to implementing practices.

Skills and Experience:

You must be educated to level 5 qualification (or above) relating to PBS and always willing to learning and increase your knowledge and skill set
You’ll will have previous experience of carrying out behavioural assessments with a Positive Support Assessment.
You are passionate about the people we support and our colleague’s wellbeing and have the experience of reducing restrictive practices
You are brilliant at communicating - you find it easy to explain things in a way that is easy for others to understand
Experience of working with people with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism who display behaviours of concern.
Experience of reducing the use of restrictive practices; including restrictive interventions
You will have experience working with multi-disciplinary teams
Experience of delivering training, workshops and/or teaching adult learners
Experience of leading individual/team de-briefs

Please note, If you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.

Community Integrated Care is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.