Job Introduction
Positive Behaviour Support changes lives. Join us and help unlock new possibilities.
- Location: Northeast Lincolnshire
- Salary: £25,595 plus mileage
- Hours per week: 37.5 including travel time.
- Training provided: BTEC Level 4 funded and supported by us, with increase in salary upon completion
- Required: A full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle and a willingness to travel across the area, Mileage paid. Previous experience working with young people with Learning disabilities and Autism
- Sponsorship is not available for this position
What’s important to you? Is it being included? Having choice over what you do? Taking part in the things that matter most to you? Flexible working? Working in a supportive environment? Professional growth?
We work with young people with learning disabilities, Autism and sometimes mental health conditions using Positive Behaviour Support, techniques that are built on the principles of inclusion, choice and participation. These young people are at significant risk of entering specialist residential care.
Through Positive Behaviour Support, we can change the outcomes for these young people – change their lives. Our strategies and interventions can be the difference between a locked door of residential care, or an open door to anywhere they want to go.
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Practitioner, working in and around, North East Lincolnshire.
Who will I be working with?
You will initially be working with 2 siblings, and with support from a Senior PBS practitioner ensuring the right support and strategies are in place that provide them a safe environment to flourish.
As well as working as part of our team, you will be working in very close partnership with and alongside these young person’s family, carers and other professionals to ensure that the PBS strategies keep them living in their current placement and accessing the community.
What does a PBS Practitioner do?
You will be supported by a Senior PBS Practitioner to deliver the highest quality and standards of Positive Behaviour Support to children and young people.
Contribute to the functional assessments and PBS plans for individual children and young people we support.
Help deliver intensive PBS support to individual children and young people to support a reduction in behaviours of concern, increase life skills and independence, increase community engagement and improve quality of life
You will provide direct support to the young person, modelling good practice and providing guidance to their parents, teachers and other professionals involved in their care.
Why work for us?
We can support you in studying Positive Behaviour Support BTEC level 4, and there is a salary increase when you achieve this qualification. We can also offer career progression in this area or adult social support.
What benefits will I have?
We have a range of benefits that you can mix and match to suit you, such as:
- Care Friends - our employee referral and reward app. You’ll receive points which can be exchanged for extra money.
- Wagestream – an app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it, access to coaching, vouchers, discounts, cashback and more.
- Blue light card – we will reimburse your Blue Light Card membership which provides discounts in your favourite shops and restaurants
- Simply Health - Fully funded health cash plans giving you access to a 24-hour GP, money back on prescriptions, dental treatment, opticians and access to many more health benefits.
- Vivup – spread the cost of home and electronics items, or a bike to cycle to work through fixed salary reductions throughout the year.
- Buy and sell annual leave – transfer windows open twice a year.
- Pension and Life Assurance – you’ll be enrolled into our Scottish Widows pension scheme and Life Assurance scheme.
Positive Behaviour Support changes lives. It might just change yours. Apply now and become a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner.
If you are offered a role with us, you will need to complete an enhanced DBS check. We will submit your application and pay for your check.
We are a Disability Confident employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
If you require any assistance to find out about current vacancies, making an application, or need any recruitment related documentation in a more accessible format please send an e-mail to: Recruitment@affinitytrust.org
We reserve the right to close this advert early if sufficient applications are received.
