Positive Behavioural Support Practitioner

Permanent

Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Salary £38,000 - £43,000 per annum (depending on skills and experience)

St Albans

Brilliant outcomes through integrated health, housing and care. That’s when it hits home.

Be part of something brilliant at Home Group, where clinical interventions work hand in hand with daily care and support.   We’re delivering brilliant long-term outcomes for people who have complex support needs through integrating health, housing and care. 

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our brand-new Transforming Care service in St Albans, delivering specialist Positive Behavioural Support to our customers.   Working alongside our Registered Manager, PBS Team Leaders and Support Workers, you’ll be supporting eight of our wonderful customers, who are all young adults (aged 19 to 25) living within their own flats within our communal house.  Our customers have varying levels of learning disabilities with a huge amount of potential to develop their skills to be as enabled and independent as possible.  For some customers, their needs are more complex with both learning and physical challenges and will need support and reassurance to help them make that exciting first step to moving out of their family home to living independently on their own.

We are currently in the process of renovating their home ‘Nicholas House’ which is beautiful old building with a communal lounge for social, therapeutic and group activities, sparkly new office for the team and a big garden (which has lots of space to grow plants or veg if our customers fancy that!).  It will be all ready for our customers to move in by April 2021.

As our PBS specialist you’ll be leading on functional behavioural assessments, plans and interventions, working collaboratively with our customers, their families, clinical and operational colleagues.  You’ll support the transition of customers into their home, some who may display behaviours that challenge, planning for their move and identifying risks. You’ll use your experience and brilliant skills to ensure all practice is evidence based and person led. You’ll provide PBS advice and coaching to your colleagues on the day to day support required, ensuring safety, promoting recovery, wellbeing and maximising independence.    

You’ll report to Sally our new Registered Manager who is excited to be joining us at the end of this month and you’ll also be supported by Chelsea (and for your clinical supervision too) who is our Regional Clinician – PBS.

Want to know more?

If you’re not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! You’ll be able to find out more about the role in our PBS Practitioner job description and more about us in our candidate pack.  We’ve also got some short films that show you what it’s like to work here, and we know you’ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!

If you would like to have a chat about the role before applying, you can contact Jenny our Strategic Lead at Jenny.mace@homegroup.org.uk.

Where you’ll work

You’ll work with our customers as they transition and move into their own home in St Albans, as well as supporting them in the community. Their home is on a lovely quiet road, with lots of shops, great bus routes and a train station nearby at St Albans – perfect for the commute or a day out!

A bit about you

You’ll be an experienced PBS specialist, with a relevant professional qualification such as Level 5 Registered Manager or Degree in Learning Disability, Mental Health, autism or other health and social care.  You’ll also have a post-graduate qualification in PBS/Applied Behaviour Analysis.   You’ll be experienced in working with a wide variety of customers with complex needs including learning disabilities, mental health, autistic spectrum condition, and behaviours that concern.  You’ll have a creative spark, be solutions focused and brilliant at supporting and unleashing the potential of our customers and operational teams to work with them through effective delivery of PBS.

You must be able to drive and have access to a car for work as you'll be required to travel to support customers transition.

An Enhanced Disclosure Check will also be required for this role and the costs of this will be met by us.

A bit about us

We’re one of the UK’s biggest providers of high-quality housing and care and support services.  We have a wealth of expertise in delivering a wide range of specialist and support services to people with complex health and social care needs.  Did we also mention, we’re number 10 in the UK’s Best Super Large Places to Work and 17^th in Stonewall’s Top 100 employers?

How we’ll support you

It’s our unwritten rule that you attend the important appointments in life, be it your child’s school play, your partner’s graduation, or to get your new fridge delivered. You can elect to fit these around your working day or use your flexi to take the time off when you need it. Our focus is on delivering brilliant outcomes, not your working hours!

Through our brilliant learning pathways, we’ll support you with your own continual professional development (will pay for any relevant professional membership fees too) as well maintaining your professional registration through regular clinical supervision and reflective practice.

The job for you?

Great, all you need to do now is upload a covering letter and your CV. Easy as that! 

Be yourself at Home

Home Group is committed to tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but for our colleagues too! We’re super proud of our internal Diversity Networks and allies groups (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) which support colleagues from different backgrounds to be their true selves. We recognise and celebrate our differences, together we make Home Group a great place to work!

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