Behaviour Specialist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 06 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £54,320.00 i £60,981.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £54320.00 - £60981.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 19 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Balham, SW12 9HS |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9294-25-0293 |
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Clinical: To take responsibility for planning and undertaking comprehensive specialist functional assessments and interventions in line with a positive behavioural support (PBS) approach. To undertake clinical interviews with clients and carers in order to gain a thorough and holistic understanding of clients needs, quality of life, current and past experiences and their environment. To undertake complex analysis and interpretation of data collected from a wide variety of sources. To present these data in graphical format within a detailed functional assessment report, including an assessment of the contribution of physical, emotional/psychological, cognitive and environmental and social factors that may be contributing to the challenging behaviour. To develop and implement positive behaviour support plans based upon a thorough holistic assessment and across the full range of care settings, including consideration of evidence of efficacy, and to decide upon the most appropriate intervention in liaison with the client or staff or carer. Interventions to include proactive strategies (including positive programming/skills building, ecological manipulations and differential reinforcement),reactive strategies, using non-aversive and least restrictive and wider system approaches and using methods with the focus on improving a clients (and carers) quality of life. To use the written agreement between carers and challenging behaviour practitioners, detailing the action plan and responsibilities at the beginning of an assessment/intervention, and to review this with the client and carers as appropriate. To ensure that all interventions are reviewed and monitored and that the referrers and carers are aware of the progress of the client. To ensure that carers are informed of any changes to interventions/action plans, using the formal agreement with carers for this purpose. To recognise barriers to successful working relationships and to act on these as appropriate. To identify carers training needs and to provide advice on behavioural interventions and formal training to carers and other staff as appropriate, working towards optimizing well-being for clients and their families. To ensure that training addresses any ethical or moral implications of any interventions. To take autonomous responsibility for communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis. Within learning disabilities this is likely to involve liaison with an extensive network of health professionals, social care professionals, voluntary agencies and families. To provide consultation and advice to professional colleagues on behavioural assessment and management of challenging behaviour in general and specifically around the care of specific clients. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide advice on aspects of risk assessment and management. To work with other disciplines and agencies, to provide a coherent and effective service for people with learning disabilities. To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention plans of clients in a skilled, professional and sensitive manner. To be sensitive to each clients level of learning disability and to communicate in a manner that is accessible and understandable. This may involve producing an easy to understand version of reports or letters. To seek ethical advice on any aspects of their work which may have ethical or moral implications for the individual, carers or others To record and analyse ongoing data about the clients quality of life and challenging behaviour as well as any other important aspects of the intervention. To carry out an effective hand-over to the clients network or staff team once the work has been completed, so that staff are able to continue monitoring any challenging behaviour and are aware of when professional help needs to be sought. To ensure that a key person is identified who can take responsibility of ensuring that intervention plans are continued as appropriate. To provide comprehensive closure reports, using the standard template, written in a way that is accessible to the particular carer/staff teams. To ensure that all necessary information is accessible and available. To be able to take effective and immediate action at times of crisis for clients of the Complex Behaviour Support Service To be able to prioritise workload and to provide advice, support and debriefing to carers and other staff. To attend and represent the Complex Behaviour Support Service at multidisciplinary team meetings and relevant stakeholder meetings including those related to delivered on the Transforming Care agenda. To respond immediately and appropriately to any suspicions or allegations of abuse, following Trust safeguarding procedures To contribute to effective incident management procedures and promoting an Just Culture To work as an independent, autonomous practitioner with full responsibility for highly complex clinical work To be accountable for all clinical decisions whilst following relevant professional guidelines, including the obligation for continued supervision.