PBS Practitioner in Truro

Ready to take the next step into Positive Behaviour Support? We are looking for a PBS Practitioner (Level 1) who is passionate about understanding behaviour and supporting people to experience greater choice, independence, inclusion and quality of life. Working in our Cornwall and Devon services, you will join our established and committed PBS team, developing your PBS practice while working directly with the people we support, families, operational colleagues and multidisciplinary professionals. You’ll help services understand PBS, develop proactive support and create environments where people can thrive.

What you’ll be doing

• Contribute to and complete functional behaviour assessments, using recognised PBS assessment tools to understand behaviours of concern, unmet needs, triggers and environmental factors.
• Co-produce and review person-centred PBS Plans with individuals, families and staff teams.
• Develop proactive strategies that promote communication, independence, skill development, emotional wellbeing and meaningful participation.
• Provide coaching, modelling and practical support to staff teams to help embed PBS into everyday practice.
• Monitor behavioural and quality-of-life information to evaluate progress and ensure support is achieving positive outcomes.
• Support services to reduce restrictive practices and promote proactive, least restrictive approaches.
• Work collaboratively with individuals, families, operational teams and multidisciplinary professionals to support placement stability and positive outcomes.

About you

You don’t need to know everything already. We’re looking for someone with relevant experience supporting autistic people and/or people with learning disabilities, a good understanding of person-centred approaches and a genuine commitment to developing within PBS. You’ll bring strong communication skills, curiosity, compassion and the ability to build positive relationships with the people we support and the teams around them. You’ll also have the opportunity to work towards a recognised PBS qualification aligned with the PBS Competency Framework.

If you’re ready to develop your career in Positive Behaviour Support and want a role where you can make a meaningful difference to people’s everyday lives, we’d love to hear from you.

About The Role

We are recruiting for a PBS Practitioner to join our Team: You will be based in Devon and Cornwall. Level 1 is Obligatory. You will need to be willing to deliver training or work alongside the PRICE training.

Benefits:

• £3,000 Car Allowance
• Competency Frameworks and Pay Scales
• Wagestream – where any day can be a payday
• Refer-a-Friend Scheme
• Canada Life, Group Life Assurance
• Blue Light Card
• Blink, our internal communications app
• Pension scheme

Scope:

To assist the Registered Manager and team members in maintaining and developing a high standard of care practice in accordance with Salutem’s philosophy, aims and objectives. To implement and deliver Positive Behavioural Support and person-centred planning, ensuring that the service operates to maximise service user’s quality of life and act as a liaison on behavioural matters between care and the behavioural forum.

Main Duties:

The person-centred plan defines what an individual ‘wants’ and the ‘My Plans’ define what an individual ‘needs’. All the plans together create a complete care plan to support an individual in having a fulfilled and healthy lifestyle. Each person’s plan is bespoke and designed using techniques, discussion, and observations appropriate to their individual needs.

Your role is to:

• Be a practice leader and model for value-based services caring for autistic people and those who have associated conditions ensuring high standards and good practice;
• Directly provide support to help develop and maintain high-quality Person-Centred Plans (PCP), ‘My Plans’ and Health Files which promote the best interests of the service users and deliver service user defined outcomes.
• Work in partnership with management, the development team and all team members to ensure all discussion points and behavioural guidelines are implemented and recorded appropriately in a developmental manner as to ensure the privacy, respect and dignity of the service users.
• Create a culture which recognises the equal opportunities for all service users and ensure service users are supported to expand their life skills and reach their full potential.
• Work in partnership with the development team to support team members to implement any future service user developments.
• Take on the responsibility of the shift leader when there is no Registered Manager or Deputy Manager present.
• Contribute to the assessment of needs for the individual service users, and to the formation of programmes to meet those needs. These programmes will include educational, social, vocational, physical, life skills and therapeutic activities.
• Support service users in all activities.
• Contribute to the recording and evaluation of all activities when required.
• Produce timely reports for the Registered Manager and Management Team on service user progress.
• Ensure that service users’ medications are administered as prescribed by the general practitioner and recorded as required.
• Undertake the responsibilities of key worker to a service user.
• Attend internal and/or external case conferences, reviews and meetings as required.

What makes Salutem Different?

We are a top 50 Inspiring Workplace - Are you looking for a workplace that inspires you to be your best self every day? Do you want to join a team that provides outstanding employee experience? If so, we invite you to join us as we celebrate our recent recognition as a top 50 Inspiring Workplace in EMEA with special mentions for our efforts in communication and experience. Our commitment to fostering a positive and supportive work environment has earned us this prestigious honour.

We have a trauma-based approach to working - We deliver a clear program of workshops, coaching and mentoring, alongside group clinical supervision and peer-to-peer support. Working with the clinical and PBS under the structure of CYP to ensure one vision, holistic support to the teams and clear role definition.

We develop and support colleagues for the future – We create a continuous learning and reflective practice environment that emphasises growth and continuous development. We focus on succession planning that will provide opportunity to develop. We are committed to having the best qualified staff supporting the children and young people.

We have developed a core and cluster model - We specialise in supporting children and young people who have emotional and behavioural needs, autistic spectrum condition, and physical/learning disability with access to education opportunities being at the core of our work. Some of our services have teamed up with our Online Education Platform to provide the young people we support education virtually from their homes.