PBS Practitioner

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced PBS Practitioner to join our team at Swanstaff Ltd. As a PBS Practitioner, you will play a key role in supporting our teams to create enabling environments and reduce behaviour-based barriers to progression.

• Provide PBS guidance and support to our services
• Provide coaching, training, and mentoring to our teams
• Support the embedding of Active Support, Creating Capable Environments, Human Rights, Trauma-Informed Care, Restraint Reduction, and Focused-Based Support
• Conduct individual assessments, including for those displaying behaviours of concern
• Support our teams to implement PBS and restraint reduction plans
• Provide guidance on proactive strategies of support and risk management plans
• Represent the PBS support team at Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings, as required
• Monitor and analyze behavioural data, and create reports evidencing behavioural incident reduction
• Attend and facilitate best practice meetings

• Have achieved, or be working towards, a Level 4 PBS qualification
• Have a minimum of 2 years' experience within the Health and Social Care sector
• Understanding of MCA/DoLS, Restraint Reduction, Human Rights, Creating Capable Environments, Trauma-Informed Care, Positive Behaviour Support, and Supporting Behaviours of Concern
• Excellent interpersonal, prioritization, and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Understand the use of functional assessment and intervention
• Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively
• Have proven experience of working with people who display behaviours of concern
• Be willing to train in physical intervention
• Be confident in teamwork, leadership, and effective communication skills, self-motivation, and the ability to use own initiative, excellent organizational, and time management skills
• Be willing to travel to service locations group-wide
• Be well-presented, punctual, reliable, and professional at all times
• Maintain appropriate and accurate records of all documentation, making timely submissions of the planning outcomes achieved, and to evaluate all risk management plans
• Maintain your own continuous professional development (CPD) by attending and participating in identified meetings and learning opportunities, to enhance your own skills and knowledge