Behaviour Support Practitioner

South London And Maudsley Nhs Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Lambeth is seeking a Behaviour Support Practitioner to join the MHLD service. You will conduct person-centred behavioural assessments and deliver Positive Behavioural Support interventions in the community and home settings.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team, receive supervision from a psychologist, and contribute to training and service development.

Qualifications

• Experience and knowledge of applied behavioural assessment and treatment of clients with a range of needs of a complex nature.
• Experience and knowledge of the practice of Positive Behavioural Support, including training and MDT collaboration.
• Ability to work with diverse communities and provide culturally sensitive care.

Responsibilities

• Provide applied behavioural assessment and intervention for clients with challenging behaviours.
• Employ Positive Behavioural Support principles in all clinical work with MDT colleagues.
• Strengthen local services through training, consultation and modelling.
• Contribute to creating psychologically safe environments and staff development.

Skills

Applied Behavioural Analysis

Positive Behavioural Support

Diversity awareness

Education

Bachelor's Degree + PG Diploma in ABA/Analysis

Job description

Job summary

We are exciting to advertise for a Behaviour Support Practitioner to work in the Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Service (MHLD) in Lambeth. You will be expected to work directly and indirectly with people with learning disabilities, families, and carers providing person-centred specialist behavioural assessments and interventions, using a Positive Behavioural Support approach. You will be part of a well established community-based MDT and wider staff group of Psychologists and Behavioural Support Practitioners across the MHLD service. You will provide clinical interventions that are focused on the person and the whole network. You will deliver support within the person's home and community as required.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Practitioner Behaviour Support Practitioner within Lambeth Mental Health and Learning Disability Service (MHLD), you will be a member of a multi-disciplinary community team working together primarily to:

• To provide applied behavioural assessment and intervention for clients who present behaviour that challenges services and poses risks to their well-being, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To employ the principles of Positive Behavioural Support in all aspects of clinical work.
• To participate in strengthening local services and developing capable environments through training, consultation and modelling.

The teams do this through the early management of identified complex situations. This will include detailed risk assessment and management underpinned by a positive behaviour support model.

About us

As a Behaviour Support Practitioner in our team, you will be part of a well-established group of around 20 Psychologists and Behavioural Support Practitioners, working across the MHLD services, led by the Borough Consultant Clinical Psychologist, providing a range of psychological assessments and interventions for people with learning disabilities and their networks. You will receive supervision from a qualified psychologist, and have opportunities to work jointly with psychologists and colleagues. You will be expected to make use of regular CPD sessions within the Trust, and to contribute to teaching, training and/or supervision initiatives aimed at developing PBS approach across and outside the Trust.

This is a permanent full time post in Lambeth MHLD, based at Maudsley Hospital. Flexible working requests and job share requests are welcomed.

We are part of a Clinical Academic Group within Kings Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre, and research interests and joint initiatives aimed at improving the physical and mental health care for people with learning disabilities are encouraged. There are opportunities to help develop and deliver training and consultation to provider services as part of your work.

Details

Date posted: 27 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year per annum incl. of HCAs (Inner)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number: 334-CLI-8347131
Job locations: Lambeth MHLD, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose:

• To provide applied behavioural assessment and intervention for clients who present behaviour that challenges services and poses risks to their well-being, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To employ the principles of Positive Behavioural Support in all aspects of clinical work alongside MDT colleagues.
• To participate in strengthening local services and developing capable environments through training, consultation and modelling.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
• To participate in service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within professional and Trust guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
• To plan and facilitate staff training and teaching, and presentations as appropriate.

Person Specification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Experience and knowledge of applied behavioural assessment and treatment of clients with a range of needs of a complex nature.
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
• Experience and knowledge of the practice of Positive Behavioural Support.

Desirable

• Lived experience of mental health or learning disabilities challenges.

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor's Degree followed by PG Diploma in Applied Behaviour Analysis, or Analysis.

Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
• Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
• Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self as well as manage physical aggression directed at self, including use of de-escalation techniques and personal safety procedures as prescribed by Trust policies.

Skills

Essential

• To deliver Applied Behaviour Analysis and Positive Behavioural Support across cultural and other differences.
• To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
• To select and administer specialist assessment procedures, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.

Desirable

• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Employer details

Employer name: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Lambeth MHLD, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Dr Barbara Barter, [e-mail], 02032285540

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