Jobs in Hull, Grande-Bretagne

Location: Home Based covering South of Scotland with travel to locations as required

Salary: £33,000 per annum + £3,000 car allowance + mileage allowance

Hours: Full Time, Monday-Friday 37.5 hours per week (4 day working week can be discussed)

Driver: Essential with access to own car

Benefits: Comprehensive induction and commitment to ongoing learning and development, Holiday purchase scheme, Contributory pension scheme, Access to retail discounts, leisure savings and holiday and travel discounts, Tools and support to help you lead an easier (financial) life, Employee of the month and other recognition schemes, Employee Assistant programme – available 24/7, Wellbeing Fund, Employee Voice – GameChangers

About us:

Community Integrated Care one of the UK’s largest health and social care charities. We work in the community, enriching the lives of people with many different care needs. It’s exciting and rewarding work, and we’re full of passion for what we do.

Since the early days, we’ve grown to provide many innovative and bespoke care services to thousands of people across England and Scotland. Whether we’re exploring new assistive technology, making service improvements or finding better ways of working, we never stand still.

Job Role:

We are currently seeking a skilled Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) Specialist Practitioner within our South Scotland area. This includes Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Lothians, Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders.

With a flexible location, the PBS Specialist Practitioner will work with and support the Strategic PBS Lead in coordinating a whole-organisational approach and strategy to enable this to be effective, and to quantify the impact both in terms of reduced behaviours and improved quality of life and developing and implementing a Positive Behaviour Culture.

• 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

Qualifications

• Essential level 5 Qualification relevant to PBS and willing to work to level 6/7.

Experience

• Extensive experience of working with people with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism who display behaviours of concern.
• Experience of carrying out Behaviour assessments within a Positive Behaviour Support Framework
• 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

Skills / Abilities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with internal and external agencies
• Ability to travel, primarily across the Region but occasionally further afield

If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role, click on APPLY today, forwarding an up-to-date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance.

Registered Office: 36B Speirs Wharf, Port Dundas, Glasgow, G4 9TG

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