Senior Behavioural Support Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Patient Care

• Ensure a high standard of clinical care for the clients.
• Play a key role in the assessment of clients who present with behaviours that challenge, undertaking both initial assessments and functional analyses.
• To provide a range of behavioural intervention strategies based on the functional analysis of a client's behaviours which are suitable for service users living with their families and/or support staff, this will include the development of Behaviour Support Plans.
• Undertake a significant clinical caseload working under supervision in collaboration with other agencies and health and social care professionals.
• To work with other members of the team on developing the knowledge and skill base around Positive Behaviour Support in the local borough this may be for family carers, support staff, and/or other professionals. This may include working alongside staff that providing direct support to clients to enable them to develop their skills to work effectively with individuals with behaviours that challenge.
• Communicate effectively with health and social care professionals and outside agencies regarding client care and progress.
• Communicate with other members of the Team regarding policies, service development and management plans.
• Along with other members of the community team, to be actively involved in delivering recommendations in line with the Transforming Care Programme and in implementing the local Inner North East London TCP Plan.

Clinical

Work autonomously in a variety of work contexts, including work in the community which may at times involve working with clients with complex needs in their own home. This includes face to face sessions with individual clients, families and support workers.

Spend sustained amounts of time with service users who may be challenging such as aggressive and hostile, who may have poor communication skills and self-care and special physical and/or mental needs.

Adapt verbal and non-verbal communication to facilitate clients understanding.

Liaise appropriately with all agencies involved and keep them informed of relevant information and recommended guidelines necessary to provide high standards of care for clients, within the recommended limits of confidentiality.

Provide a clinical service to clients from a range of minority ethnic populations and provide an appropriate specialist person-centred programme of care taking into account language, religion, cultural beliefs and customs and adapt assessment, formulation and intervention as appropriate.

Accountable for one's own actions and to work within Trust and NHS code of practice and ethics, and Trust policies and procedures.

Responsible for offering specialised advice, guidance and support to staff in the joint community team for people with learning disabilities, to staff teams in statutory and voluntary organisations and family carers of people with learning disabilities.

Provide advice, guidance and support, both formally and informally, to staff, families and carers.

Responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.

• Other relevant duties as discussed with the Lead Clinical Psychologist

Administration

Plan and prioritise own clinical workload and to work with multi-disciplinary colleagues around complex cases, providing this in a setting which is most appropriate to the client and/or service needs.

Responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work and communicating clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. service users, families, carers, other professionals, and statutory and voluntary organisations) orally, in writing and electronically, and as specified by the service. Also to maintain client records as an autonomous practitioner.

Management

• In conjunction with the Lead Clinical Psychologist contribute to the development of a high quality challenging behavior pathway.
• Contribute, as a member of relevant working groups, to the development, implementation and evaluation of the Team.
• Implement Trust and local policies.
• Organise own day-to day activities, plan and prioritise own clinical and non-clinical workload.
• Identify, propose and lead changes to work practices and procedures in own area of work and join working groups leading on service wide and specialism developments as appropriate.

Human Resources

• To participate in Trust appraisal and be committed to ongoing continuing professional development including participation in further specialist training as agreed with supervisor/head of department.

Performance and Quality

• Ensure documentation and care plans are comprehensive and of the highest standard in line with Trust Policy.
• Record relevant information as consistent with Trust record keeping policy.
• Collate and report clinical information.
• Record and report on personally generated clinical information.
• Enter clinical information as required into local and Trust electronic information systems.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant professional/educational qualifications

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with people with Learning Disabilities
• Experience of using Positive Behaviour Support, inc. assessment, intervention, writing PBS plans and implementation/reivew
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of research, audit and service development

Desirable

• Experiance of supervising others

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Tower Hamlets Community Learning Disability Service (CLDS) Beaumont House, Mile End Hospital,

Bancroft Road,

London

E1 4DG

Employer's website

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