Practitioner Positive Behavioural Support
Summary of Role:
As Practitioner PBS, you have the overall responsibility for the delivery of effective PBS assessments and interventions, at both an individual and service level, within the adult and specialist services. Within your remit, you are expected to ensure you deliver PBS interventions focused on excellent person centred care, where applicable evidence based clinical care, & ensuring that high quality service user outcomes are achieved.
Working as part of the Therapy Team you will provide guidance, active support, plans and coaching to the teams across division supporting individuals with behaviour that challenges and supporting individuals who are impacted by a learning disability, autism, acquired brain injury and/ or other mental health challenges.
You will be responsible for the implementation of PBS strategies that will improve the quality of life and service user's well-being and working with our support teams, to reduce restrictive interventions.
Plan, write up and develop positive behaviour support plans which are personalised and meet the needs of those we support as well as enhance their choice & independence.
Leading by example, you will demonstrate strong influencing and communication skills, and will create a culture that encourages openness and transparency where the staff and service users feel fully engaged, and are empowered to innovate and improve services. You will be expected to model the values of the organisation, in all that you do.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Therapeutic or Clinical
Comply with relevant care regulations, standards and legislation under the Health and Social Care Act (2008).
Conducting functional behaviour assessments, evidence-based assessments to understand behaviour that challenges and develop interventions to support service users.
Coproduction of function-based PBS plans, crisis plans, and opportunity plans. Effective use of practice leadership to ensure these are embedded to provide the team with the right guidance.
Completion of restrictive practice audits and coproduction of plans to reduce any necessary restrictions over time.
Flexible delivery of welfare checks and debriefs to both the people we support and their teams following challenging incidents.
Ongoing analysis of data to inform practice, including that related to incidents of behaviour that challenges and quality of life.
Other tasks commensurate with providing support under a PBS framework (e.g., writing analysis reports, attending governance meetings, signposting to other support, supporting outward referrals etc) at the Head of Therapies request
Effective use of our digital systems (e.g. SharePoint, Microsoft) to keep robust clinical notes and ensure confidentiality is upheld.
Delivering training in positive behaviour support and person centred active support