Behaviour Support Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

KR 1 Clinical and Client CareTo provide applied behavioural assessments, formulations and interventions for clients in the TCA service who present behaviour that challenges services and poses risks to the well-being of the clients.

To work with family carers or with staff who provide direct support to clients to enable them to develop their skills to work effectively with individuals whose behaviour challenges.

To ensure that interventions and work with care staff or families of referred clients adheres to and actualises the principles of Positive Behaviour Support, and is culturally appropriate.

To manage a clinical caseload taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.

To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.

KR 2 Contributing to team or service clinical functioning

To contribute to the effective working of the TCA and to the development and maintenance of a Positive Behaviour Support framework for the service.

To contribute to the teams delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.

To be proactive in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.

To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals, and other agencies concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.

KR 3 Policy and service development

To implement policies and procedures in own area of work.

To contribute to the consultation and engagement of service users in planning and delivering services which meet the needs of local communities.

To contribute to service development through participating in appropriate projects.

KR 4 Care or management of resources

To take care of, and use carefully, the Trusts equipment and physical resources.

To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.

KR 5 Management and supervision

To supervise trainee Behaviour Support Practitioners after accreditation by the training course(s) and completion of the Trusts Supervision Training.

To supervise trainee applied psychologists within own area of specialism when requested.

KR 6 Teaching and Training

To provide training to family carers and to support workers to enable them to develop their skills to work effectively with individuals whose behaviour challenges services, and to implement and adhere to the principles of Positive Behaviour Support in all aspects of care.

To provide occasional specialist training in behavioural approaches to care to other professions as appropriate.

To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles.

KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance

To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry.

KR 8 Research and development

To participate regularly in service evaluation, audits or research relevant to service needs.

To lead occasionally on specific service evaluation, audit or research.

KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychological practitioner according to Trust guidelines.

To ensure own Continuing Professional Development as required by the Personal Development Plan.

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current developments in professional and clinical practice and of relevant legislation and policies.

To comply with the Trusts Code of Conduct for Non-Regulated Clinical Staff, and ensure professional development in line with it.

KR10 GeneralTo travel to borough wide services where necessary (e.g. home visits, community placements, psychology meetings) as appropriate and across the Trust when required.

To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.

To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations such as challenging behaviour and to support others involved in such situations.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor's Degree followed by PG Diploma in Applied Behaviour Analysis, or Analysis and Intervention in Intellectual Disabilities, or equivalent PG Diploma.

Experience/Knowledge

Essential

• Experience and knowledge of applied behavioural assessment and treatment of clients with a range of needs of a complex nature.
• Experience and knowledge of the practice of Positive Behaviour Support
• Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.

Desirable

• Experience of specialist psychological assessments and treatment for autistic service users or other neurodevelopmental conditions.

Knowledge

Essential

• To deliver Applied Behaviour Analysis and Positive Behaviour Support across cultural and other differences.
• To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
• To select and administer specialist assessment procedures, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.

Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
• Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour.
• Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility and physical aggression directed at self, including use of breakaway techniques and personal safety procedures as prescribed by Trust policies.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Maudsley Hospital

Denmark Hill

SE5 8AZ

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)