Professional Lead PBS Services

Hesley Group; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in care services is seeking a Professional Lead for PBS Services in Scunthorpe. This role will provide leadership to a dedicated team supporting adults with learning disabilities. Responsibilities include offering clinical expertise, promoting client involvement, and driving quality improvements within service delivery. The ideal candidate will have a Master's qualification in ABA/PBS and extensive clinical experience. Benefits include supervision from experienced professionals, generous holiday allowance, and training opportunities.

Benefits

Supervision from experienced professionals

8 weeks holiday

Extensive CPD opportunities

Pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Free Parking

Qualifications

• Masters level qualification in ABA/PBS or equivalent.
• Significant experience in clinical settings with complex needs.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD).

Responsibilities

• Offer specialist clinical expertise in behavioural assessments.
• Promote co-production with people we support and families.
• Provide professional leadership and supervision for PBS professionals.

Skills

Advanced knowledge of learning disability

Experience with autism

Clinical supervision models

Data analysis and reporting

Education

Masters level qualification in ABA/PBS

Registration as a UK behaviour Analyst

Job description

Do you have a compassionate approach to working with people? Are you committed to understanding people's needs and using evidence-based practice to help people to flourish? We are looking for a Professional Lead for PBS Services to join us to support the delivery of high quality, person-centred support to improve the quality of life of adults with learning disabilities.

This is an exciting new role, created to strengthen and develop our PBS team and provision. You will provide professional leadership for our PBS team, which currently includes 7 Behaviour Analyst posts and 3 Assistants. You will work closely with the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS on strategic initiatives, service development, and embedding evidence-based Positive Behaviour Support across the organisation.

As part of our Clinical Services team, you will collaborate with Occupational Therapy (OT), Speech and Language Therapy (SLT), Psychiatry and Practice Lead colleagues and join a peer group of professional leads for OT and SLT, fostering collaborative learning, practice and innovation.

The clinical element of this role will focus on our North Hub (Barnsley, Easingwold, Scunthorpe). Travel to our other sites will be required in this role.

(For internal candidates, the current base location would remain unchanged, but travel to other sites would be required).

This is a full time role (part time will be considered).

Main duties of the job

• Offer specialist clinical expertise in behavioural and skills assessments, formulation, and intervention, including complex casework and second opinions.

• Promote co-production with people we support, families, and carers to ensure people have a voice in planning their own futures, along with shaping service delivery and reducing restrictive practices.

• Demonstrate extensive successful experience in working with autistic individuals and people with intellectual disabilities, to enhance their quality of life and reduce behaviours of concern.

• Work as part of a strong multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to deliver holistic, person-centred care.

• Provide professional leadership and supervision for PBS professionals, ensuring clinical governance and high standards of practice. This requires the post holder to be registered as a UKBA (cert), with an in-depth understanding of the principles and application of PBS.

• Drive quality improvement through audit, service evaluation, and feedback mechanisms, ensuring continuous development of PBS delivery.

• Work closely with the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS to deliver strategic initiatives, service development, and embed evidence-based Positive Behaviour Support across the organisation.

• Ensure robust clinical governance, safeguarding, and risk management practices are embedded within PBS service delivery.

• Maintain compliance with professional standards, legal frameworks, and regulatory requirements, including UKBA (cert) registration.

About us

Benefits of working for us:

• Supervision from experienced UKBA (cert) and Clinical Psychologists
• 8 weeks holiday
• Extensive CPD and training opportunities
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Blackhawk Scheme
• Access to various discounts at a range of different retailers
• Access to an employee assistance programme which includes a confidential counselling service and physiotherapy
• Free Parking

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration as a UK behaviour Analyst, UKBA (cert)
• Masters level qualification in ABA/PBS or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) across the career span
• Evidence of other specialist courses or attendance at online learning

Desirable

• Qualification in Leadership and Management

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Essential Knowledge
• To have advanced knowledge of national, regional and local health and social care drivers
• To operate as a highly advanced practitioner with specialist knowledge of learning disability, autism and associated mental health difficulties. To actively provide support and expert advice to other Applied Psychologists and all other stakeholders
• To be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of the clinical evidence base and assessment and intervention approaches specific to the people we support including knowledge of restrictive practice reduction and trauma informed care. Evidence of ability to frequently problem solve through complex, sensitive and highly technical clinical situations
• Experience and knowledge of approaches to support people through situations where there may be high levels of distress, where they may require complex reasoning to solve crisis situations or fluctuations in health needs. To also understand how best to support colleagues through these situations and how to apply reflective learning and development
• To have knowledge of clinical supervisory models and practices.
• An ability and commitment to work proactively as a member of a team and effectively communicate and take a leadership role in the general engagement of teams within workplace.
• An understanding of leadership skills and experiences of supporting colleagues within a leadership role
• To have good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and best interests processes
• Demonstrates understanding of the complex relationship between physical, cognitive, psychological and social dimensions of disability.
• Experience of leading, managing, developing and supervising a team of professional staff. Understanding of professional development and the link to the professional career framework (UKSBA and BACB)
• Essential - Skills and Abilities
• Advanced skills in collecting and analysing complex data and communicating this effectively to others.
• Advanced skill in carrying out functional behavioural assessment.
• Advanced skills in designing and implementing holistic multi-component behavioural interventions.
• Ability to communicate highly complex information to a broad range of individuals and/or groups/family members/teams in a sensitive, appropriate manner
• Ability to make decisions in the face of competing alternatives, at times being able to make these when others may not agree
• Ability to self-evaluate and reflect in and on practice and to support less experienced staff to see the value of such approaches to learning in practice
• Excellent analytical and organisational skills to enable full autonomy within the clinical setting on a day to day basis. Effective and evidenced clinical leadership skills, including ability to organise self and others
• Flexible in thinking and able to take the initiative to make sound and reasoned judgements and decisions. Being able to support more junior colleagues to develop reasoning skills
• Ability to identify, lead and/or contribute to improvements in the quality of the service delivered. To critically analyse the service level need
• Advanced skills in delivering training and presentations including making complex adaptations to these to present to a range of audiences
• Ability to collate and decide on data to formulate safe risk management plans for clinical, high risk, recommendations
• Good understanding of the operational requirements of the service
• Skills to be able to think quickly and decisively but maintaining diplomacy

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working within a range of clinical settings with individuals with complex needs within a range of multi-professional teams. Significant experience with individuals with learning disability and/or autism
• Experience and or involvement in auditing clinical standards within the practice setting
• Experience of developing and implementing medium to long term projects to bring about positive change to the service. Ability to project manage these independently
• Ability to devise, plan and deliver training to colleagues, students, families and adapt delivery style and type to suit the need.
• Ability to negotiate and communicate effectively through complex and challenging situations.
• Skilled in leading service and/or organisation-wide PBS initiatives.
• Extensive experience of developing and delivering PBS training to groups, including introduction and intermediate level training.
• Extensive experience of coaching and mentoring key people, including support staff and service managers.
• Experience of supervising others.

Desirable

• Experience of working within complex and multi-layered organisations
• Experience of presenting self and information that may prove contentious in multi-disciplinary setting.
• Knowledge and experience of organisational behaviour management.
• Experience managing people within a health/social care setting

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Hesley Group

Address

Stripe Road

Tickhill

Doncaster

South Yorkshire

DN11 9HH

Employer's website

https://www.hesleygroup.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)