Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner/Therapist

Elysium Healthcare Careers

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to recruit to the position of Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner/Therapist to join the psychology and therapy department.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team to support service users across the Midlands region across a number of small complex care services, care homes and residential services.

As a PBS Practitioner/Therapist you will provide specialist behavioural support to autistic adults and adults with a learning disability. You will develop and implement individualised behavioural support plans based on service users needs and goals, including encouraging independence and development of life skills with a focus on improving quality of life.

You will be responsible for functional behaviour assessments and observations, positive behavioural support planning and implementations, incident analysis and facilitating PBS workshops and training programmes.

Training opportunities will be available for the successful candidate along with clinical and management supervision.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working closely with the people we support to develop and implement individualised behavioural support plans that both meet their needs and help to develop their independence and life skills
• Completing behavioural assessment tools and analyse complex data
• Facilitating PBS workshops
• Supporting with staff training & development
• Providing high quality written reports
• Being involved with incident analysis & reflective practice

• Attending regular clinical and service development meetings
• Being an integral part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team
• Contributing to audit and research

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• An undergraduate degree in Psychology that confers graduate basis for registration (GBR) by the British Psychological Society (BPS)
• Have, or be willing to work towards, a formal qualification in Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) e.g. BILD certificate or Diploma in PBS
• Good knowledge of PBS theory/practice
• Have a good understanding of the legal frameworks that are relevant to the role (e.g., Mental Capacity Act)
• To provide high quality reports and PBS plans
• Experience within similar settings
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

What you will get:

• Annual salary between £21,840 – £24, 480
• The equivalent of 33 days (including bank holidays) annual leave plus your birthday off!
• Employee Assistance Services
• A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP)
• Life Assurance
• Continuous learning and development
• Childcare vouchers
• Enhanced Maternity Package
• Career development
• Voluntary Benefits

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.

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