Band 5 Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner - Bristol

Job description

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a band 5 Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner to join the service on a permanent basis

The post holder will work as a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner in the Learning Disability CAMHS to ensure a clinically effective, high quality Intensive Positive Behaviour Support Service (iPBS) is provided to children and young people and their families/carers.

Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

To work as a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner in the Learning Disability CAMHS to ensure a clinically effective, high quality Intensive Positive Behaviour Support Service (iPBS) is provided to children and
young people and their families/carers.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary service under the direction of the iPBS Service Lead in the delivery of intensive positive behaviour support assessments and interventions to children and their
families with complex needs.

The post holder will provide support and health promotion as well as working with a Clinical Psychologist to offer assessment and intervention to children and young people and their families/carers, working within iPBS

The post holder will support in the assessment of the complex needs (including functional assessment) and the delivery of interventions to improve the complex behaviour issues in children and young people under the direction of the Clinical Psychologist.

The post holder will deliver intervention programmes to children and young people in their specialist educational settings, short break provision and their home setting.

The post holder will be willing and able to work between 7am and 7pm as needed.

Working for our organisation

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary service under the direction of the iPBS Service Lead in the delivery of intensive positive behaviour support assessments and interventions to children and their families with complex needs. The post holder will provide support and health promotion as well as working with a Clinical Psychologist to offer assessment and intervention to children and young people and their families/carers, working within iPBS

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Person specification

Education and qualification

Essential criteria

• The post holder is required to have demonstrated a good level of academic success either with qualifications at Bachelors Level 2:1 or higher in a related field such as psychology or through a related professional qualification such as Learning Disability Nursing.
• Evidence of completion of significant CPD in Positive Behaviour Support and/or Applied Behavioural Analysis.

Desirable criteria

• Qualification in Applied Behaviour Analysis or Positive Behaviour Support

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with children and young people with learning disability and complex emotional and behavioural needs.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of implementing Positive Behaviour Support with children and young people with learning disability

We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.

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