Positive Behaviour Support Lead

1 month ago


Newark on Trent, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

Positive Behaviour Support Lead

Location: YMCA Newark and Sherwood
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 per annum
Hours: 40
Job Type: Full time
Contract Type: Permanent

YMCA Robin Hood Group is expanding its Children and Young People’s Residential Therapeutic Service to include a brand-new Positive Behaviour Support team.

We are looking for a Positive Behaviour Support Lead to work as part of this brand-new team, working with the children, young people and staff teams in our service.

We aim to promote, protect and safeguard the physical, emotional and safety needs of children and young people. The Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) team will act as mentors and trainers to our residential care teams, fostering positive behavioural support knowledge transfer to practice, with this Lead position leading that team of PBS practitioners.

Here at the YMCA, we believe that all children and young people deserve prompt holistic individualised clinical assessment, intervention and care. Therefore, all the homes adopt a psychologically informed approach to caring for children with trauma lived experiences within a home environment and the community. Our approach has been designed in collaboration with our Consultant Forensic Psychologist, therapists, residential care specialists and wider delivery team, to provide a unique step-down and prevention service from Tier 4 CAMHS; Psychiatric Intense Care Units; secure children’s homes; those awaiting therapeutic placements post hospital admissions for a mental health assessment or are stepped up from generic children’s homes to prevent hospital admission.

Job Role

As a Positive Behaviour Support Lead, you will lead and work as part of a peripatetic rapid response team to provide additional support to a staff team and the child when children become dysregulated.

In conjunction with the above, part of your role will include:
Design, develop and deliver induction training including but not limited to, the areas of safeguarding; positive behaviour support; risk management; recording and reporting; ligature and TeamTeach
Encourage continuous professional development in the above training area
Foster positive behavioural support knowledge transfer to practice
Design and deliver proactive and reactive key working
Facilitate reflective debriefs
Utilise a risk reduction approach to audit, analyse and evaluate the use of TeamTeach within service
Supervise and develop the positive behaviour support professionals within the team
As this is a 24/7 service, flexible working hours on a rota basis, which includes weekends is required. As is travel to all homes throughout the regions in which the children’s homes are located.

About You

As the lead and founding member of our new PBS team, you will be an experienced professional ready to share your skills and experiences to make a real difference to the life of the children and young people in our care.

The following skills are essential:

Leadership and management experience including supervising others for at least two years in a residential and or similar environment.
Experience of working in a regulated field such as OFSTED and having membership with a regulatory body.
Masters (desirable) or Minimum of Bachelors level (or equivalent) (Essential) in PBS or related field of Applied Behaviour Analysis that permits regulation with a professional body (BACB, NMC, HCPC)
Plus one or more of the following:

Level 5 in residential care
Registered Mental Health / Learning Disability Nurse
Additional qualification in Psychology (Undergraduate / Masters / Diploma)
Leadership qualification
Substantial residential experience and portfolio of evidence for positive behaviour support in practice to demonstrate equivalence to one of the above.
Experience of designing, developing and delivering training
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including assertive listening
Reflective and responsive practitioner
Proficient in risk assessment, risk management and harm reduction
Dealing with risk behaviours including hostility; verbal and physical aggression; violence; self-harm and suicidal ideation, thoughts, verbalisations, behaviours and or actions of intent to take own life
Thorough, concise and accurate record keeping and report writing skill
Able to manage professionals boundaries and containing personal anxiety in challenging circumstances
Full UK driving license
As an expanding service, there will be future opportunities for your career development and we are very supportive of your learning and development through additional study and qualification.

We offer the following benefits from day 1 of your employment with us:

Equivalent of 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing 1 day each year for your first 5 years
Workplace pension with Royal London (3% employer contribution, 5% employee contribution)
4 x Life Insurance/Death in Service whilst in the pension scheme
Reduced school holiday childcare places at YMCA Camp Williams Nottingham & Newark
10% off in our hospitality venues including the Malt Cross and the Café at our Activity Village in Newark.
Pastoral support
Cycle to Work Scheme
Excellent opportunities for development and progression
Support for further study up to post-graduate level 7 courses to support your development
£500 refer a friend scheme applicable across the Group
Regular ongoing inhouse training
Eligible to join the Blue Light Discount scheme
Staff events and annual celebrations
On passing your probation, you can select from one of the following additional benefits:

Private medical and dental cashback scheme with Westfield Health and access to Westfield Rewards for high street discounts
£120 cash annual contribution towards either:
Travel costs or;
Childcare costs or;
Private gym membership
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