Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Practitioner - Wakefield
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Wakefield, WF1 |
| Company: | Affinity Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | OPS04425-26148 |
Summary
Doing Amazing Things Together
We’re all about possibilities. Are you?
Are you passionate about supporting children and young people with learning disabilities and Autism? Are you creative and committed?
Become a PBS Practitioner
What matters to the children and young people we support matters to us. It’s their life, their way.
We are recruiting a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Practitioner to join our team in Wakefield, where we are supporting Children and young people with learning disabilities, autism and behaviours that challenge on a 1 to 1 basis with the aim to increase the child/young person’s quality of life through using positive behaviour support strategies and interventions.
The child/young person you will be supporting will be living at home but at significant risk of entering specialist residential care. A key part of this role is to support the child/young person to stay living at home, going to a local school and remain in their community by working in very close partnership with and alongside their, parents, teachers and other professionals to ensure consistent implementation of the PBS strategies.
Holding a full UK driving license and having access to your own vehicle is essential and you should be prepared to travel across the area for this role.
This is a fulltime position and you will need to work flexibly across the week and ocassional weekends.
So, if you think you can be a positive role model, who brings our values to life and shares our passion and commitment to always strive to find creative ways to enrich the lives of those we support then this is the place for you.
Affinity Trust does not presently hold a Sponsorship Licence and while this status is reviewed regularly there is no present proposal to apply for such a Licence
Why Join Us?
What will we do?
We provide a package of benefits that make it that bit easier to be your best and we can also support you to achieve Positive Behaviour Support training at diploma level.
We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it, access to coaching, vouchers, discounts, cashback and more.
You will be entitled to annual leave with the ability to buy additional leave.
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.
What will you do?
You will be supported by a Senior PBS Practitioner to deliver the highest quality and standards of Positive Behaviour Support to children/young people.
Keywork an agreed number of children/Young people, delivering PBS interventions in their home, school, in the community and other support service settings, including directly supporting the child/young person, modelling good practice and providing guidance to their parents, teachers and a range of other professionals.
If you want to empower the children and young people we support, and you share our values… Apply to become a PBS Practitioner today.
Apply today
Ready to do things differently? Submit your application.
We’re committed to being Disability Confident and we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
Please contact our recruitment team for further information: recruitment@affinitytrust.org
Check out more opportunities on our careers page: https://www.affinitytrust.org/about-us/careers/job-search/
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint or sufficient applications for shortlisting are received before the advertised closing date.
INDMP
Apply today
Ready to do things differently? Submit your application.
We’re committed to being Disability Confident and we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
Please contact our recruitment team for further information: recruitment@affinitytrust.org
Check out more opportunities on our careers page: https://www.affinitytrust.org/about-us/careers/job-search/
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint or sufficient applications for shortlisting are received before the advertised closing date.
INDMP
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