Positive Behavior Support Lead | Lisburn PBS

Each Positive Behaviour Support Lead will work as part of a dedicated team to provide a consistently high quality active support service within a caring environment, ensuring that both service users and staff are treated with dignity and respect. The Lisburn PBS service is a challenging but equally rewarding service to work in. It is a supported living setting that facilitates a bespoke placement for individuals with complex needs that includes mental health issues, learning disabilities, and autism coupled with behaviours that challenge.

In Lisburn PBS, the service user is at the centre of everything that we do, therefore the role of PBS lead is very bespoke to the service user’s needs. The PBS lead role is very much hands on, where the lead will have a high level of active engagement with service users in all areas of their daily lives. In conjunction with Positive Behaviour Support practitioners, this will include personal care, medication management and administration, meal preparation, cleaning and laundry, money management, activity planning, facilitating appointments, assisting with family visits and setting future goals.

Service users are often at different levels of independence with these skills and tasks. The PBS lead will model and provide advice on approaches on a daily basis to quality assure practitioner application of bespoke PBS plans and consistency in care. Staff ratios are dependent on level of need and associated support required, ranging from 1:1 to 3:1.

Through a key worker system, the use of positive behaviour methodologies and through liaising with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to include Intensive Support Service, social worker, speech and language therapist and a clinical psychologist, the Positive Behaviour Support Leads will be responsible for overseeing programmes of support and coordinating the delivery of these by fully immersing themselves in their application and actively supporting the team of Positive Behavioural Support Practitioners and service users on a daily basis.

You will be champions in the positive behaviour support approach, and Praxis Care will support you to attain competence through training and formal qualifications and experience and expect that you contribute to the dissemination of understanding of PBS across the organisation. As an organisation of excellence, Praxis Care will continuously evolve and improve practice, undertaking research to support its aim to be a world leader in this field.

Key Accountabilities:

• To support the manager with the day to day operational running of the scheme including rota management and creation, supervision and appraisal of staff.
• To provide active support in relation to the physical, emotional and personal needs of Service Users, ensuring that work within the scheme is Service User focused and upholds the principles of respect, privacy, dignity, fulfilment, independence and choice.
• To plan, co-ordinate and implement the safe transition of new Service Users into the service and community where necessary in consultation with the MDT.
• To liaise with Service User families and relevant members of multi-disciplinary teams, community groups and voluntary bodies with the aim of promoting the Service User needs.
• To coordinate the planning, development and implementation of individual care and support plans to enhance and maximise the capabilities and independence of the Service Users.
• To ensure that adequate records are created and maintained and necessary reports, including untoward/critical incidents are produced and reported in line with organisational policy and statutory requirements.
• To take the lead in challenging and complex situations and ensure the safety of service users and staff through the appropriate management of violence and aggression.
• To act in the best interests of the Service User at all times, including taking timely action if the service user's wellbeing is jeopardised.
• To ensure that medication is held, stored and administered in accordance with Praxis Care’s Medication Policy and current statutory and legislative procedure.
• To provide effective leadership, supervision and management to a team of Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners.
• To complete any mandatory training identified as necessary by the Organisation whilst identifying and addressing personal development opportunities for both the post holder and those managed by the post holder.
• To actively participate in research and in-house training as required.
• To participate and speak at conferences and staff development training to ensure that good practice is disseminated appropriately.

Requirements of the Role:

• To participate in the Company’s performance management process.
• To adhere to and model the company values, behaviours and competencies at all times.
• To carry out all duties of the post in accordance with Praxis Care’s rules, regulations and policies.
• The service is staffed 24/7. Our leads complete a mixture of both admin shifts and shifts in scheme. Sleepover shifts are also required within the role.
• All staff are required to transport service users as part of the role and will be required to use their own vehicle and the scheme vehicle when required.

Criteria:

• 2 Years paid employment in a learning disability or mental health setting and a Degree in Psychology OR
• 2 Years paid employment with supervisory experience and a level 5 diploma in Leadership and Management for health and social care OR
• Understanding of mental health/learning disabilities/autism and a professional qualification in Nursing, Social Work, Allied Health Profession, Foundation degree in Health and Social Care, BTEC Level 5 HND in Health and Social Care, QCF Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care or equivalent.

Desired Criteria:

• Supervisory experience.
• Full driving license and access to own vehicle.

Required Criteria:

• 2 years experience in learning disability, mental health or behaviours that challenge.
• Qualification in either: Degree - Psychology or Behavioural Analysis, L5 Leadership and Management for HSC, Social work, nursing, allied health.

Closing Date: Thursday 3rd July, 2025.