Positive Behaviour Support Worker

Northyorks; Scarborough; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Partners in Care Yorkshire is seeking a dedicated care worker to deliver person-centred support in the Scarborough area, helping an individual with acquired brain injury maintain independence and quality of life. You will work within a specialist team to reduce distress and support emotional regulation in the home and community.

The role requires emotional intelligence, resilience, and the ability to collaborate with multiple agencies.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle required.
• Role demands emotional intelligence, resilience, boundaries, reflective practice, and multi-agency collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Deliver person-centred support within the home and community.
• Support emotional regulation and behavioural stability.
• Respond to behaviours that challenge.
• Maintain consistency of approach across the team.
• Use de-escalation and low-arousal communication techniques.
• Support independence and daily living.
• Accurate recording and professional communication.
• Participate in reflective supervision and team development.
• Maintain clear professional boundaries at all times.
• Support with personal care.
• Remain calm under pressure.
• Demonstrate emotional resilience.
• Maintain strong boundary awareness.
• Be professional and reliable.
• Work within emotionally demanding environments.
• Be reflective and willing to learn.
• Demonstrate experience with positive behaviour support.
• Show understanding of mental health and brain injury rehabilitation.
• Provide complex community support.
• Engage in specialist training.

Skills

Emotional intelligence

Resilience

Professional boundaries

Reflective practice

Multi-agency collaboration

Mental health awareness

Brain injury awareness

Behaviour support

Job description

Location: Scarborough, Partners In Care Yorkshire

Salary: £13.00 per hour

Contract Type: Permanent

Partners in Care are developing a specialist support team for an individual with anacquired brain injury living within the community who requires a highlyconsistent, psychologically informed approach to support.

The successful candidate will support the individual tomaintain independence and quality of life while helping to reduce distress,conflict, and instability through calm, professional, and consistentapproaches.

This is a specialist position requiring emotionalintelligence and resilience, professional boundaries, reflective practice, and the ability towork collaboratively within a multi-agency environment.

A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are required for this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliveringperson-centred support within the home and community
• Supportingemotional regulation and behavioural stability
• Respondingappropriately to behaviours that challenge
• Maintainingconsistency of approach across the team
• Usingde-escalation and low-arousal communication techniques
• Supportingindependence and daily livingA
• ccuraterecording and professional communication
• Participatingin reflective supervision and team development
• Maintainingclear professional boundaries at all times
• Supportwith Personal Care
• Calmunder pressure
• Emotionallyresilient
• Strongboundary awareness
• Professionaland reliable
• Able towork within emotionally demanding environments
• Reflective and willing tolearn
• Experience and understanding of positivebehaviour support
• Background in mentalhealth
• Experience with braininjury rehabilitation
• Experience providing complexcommunity support
• Specialisttraining
• Stablelong-term package
• Smalldedicated team environment
• Clinicaland management support

*It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults at risk.*

*We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk*

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