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A local NHS Trust is seeking a Positive Behaviour Support Nurse to provide innovative care to individuals with learning disabilities and significant behaviours of concern. This full-time role requires NMC registration and a commitment to ongoing professional development. Responsibilities include mental health assessments and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to enhance the quality of life for service users. The position offers opportunities for supervision and professional growth.
Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 19 October 2025
Would you like to be part of an exciting innovation? Are you passionate about working as a nurse to support people with learning disabilities and significant behaviours of concern within their community? If so, this post could be for you.
We require a full-time nurse who can work flexibly to meet service need and demonstrate TEWV trust values, working collaboratively with stakeholders to develop creative, imaginative solutions to support PBS and enhance quality of life.
We are looking to recruit a dynamic and innovative nurse to our established multi-disciplinary Secure Outreach Transition Team (SOTT) to provide Positive Behavioural Support to our service users. The successful candidate will have experience using PBS and hold a PBS or behaviour analysis qualification.
The successful candidate will support people that have a learning disability and their families to provide support following the positive behaviour support (PBS) framework when there is a risk of hospital admission or placement breakdown to reduce behaviours of concern and enhance quality of life.
The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, motivated, and demonstrate a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development. Provide/ gather information to support the specialist mental health assessments of people referred to the service. The assessment will be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of stakeholder sources.
Carry a small caseload, working responsively and flexibly with people, their families, and external agencies in a variety of settings.
Support workforce development in the areas of positive behaviour support, which may include training and supervision within TEWV services and external partners.
Improve the lives of people with mental health needs and learning disabilities and/or autism by minimising the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services.
Support a culture of person centred, values led high quality care, promoting least restrictive practice within TEWV and the wider learning disability community
The post holder will be offered supervision with the Clinical Nurse Specialist in PBS and have opportunities to shadow complex case's and develop their skills with this practitioner.
The Trust offer a wide variety of benefits;
This post is only open to those candidates who already have their NMC registration in place and have successfully completed the preceptorship programme.
Please review the attached job description for the essential role criteria and responsibilities. Please do contact us if you would like to arrange an informal visit or to discuss the role in more detail prior application or interview.
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.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
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