Positive Behaviour Support Lead (Bridge College)
| Posting date: | 03 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £43,000 to £45,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2026 |
| Location: | Bridge College Openshaw, M11 2GR |
| Company: | The Together Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | togethertrust/TP/662/372 |
Summary
Together we make a difference, develop and learn, and support each other. Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same:To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.
Alongside an incredible team of like-minded peers, you’ll be working behind-the-scenes to support our staff, volunteers, families, and supporters. You will be helping our work happen across the charity; enabling us to care for and champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support.
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week
Contract: Full Time
Salary: £43, 753.38 prorated to 41 weeks
Location: Bridge College, Openshaw Manchester
The Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Team Lead is responsible for overseeing the implementation of PBS across Bridge College. This role involves working collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary therapeutic team to assess student needs and support their transitions into, within, and out of the College
Responsibilities
- Ensure students are treated with dignity and respect at all times
- Communicate in ways that promote partnership and reflect each student's needs, background, understanding and preferred communication style
- Lead the day-to-day delivery and line management of the PBS service
- Provide line management, supervision, and appraisal to PBS team members
- Contribute to collaborative risk assessment and management for young people with complex needs
- Support admissions through behavioural information gathering analysis and written reporting
- Design, implement, evaluate and adapt individual recording systems tailored to each student
- Monitor and evaluate PBS interventions using key performance indicators
- Provide coaching, mentoring and practice supervision to staff and professionals supporting individuals with behaviours of concern
- Stay up to date with national best practice relating to learning disabilities, neurodiversity, restrictive practices and behaviours that challenge using this to guide service development
About You
- A masters level qualification in applied behaviour analysis, positive behaviour support or other relevant discipline such as psychology
- Significant experience delivering PBS within a relevant setting
- Experience of working across a wide service setting including the following areas: children's services, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, emotional and behavioural disorders (EBD), profound and multiple learning disabilities(PMLD), and individuals with complex health needs
- Sound knowledge of working within Ofsted's social care common inspection framework and the care quality commission inspection framework
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Experience in directly supporting young people who present with challenging behaviour
- Ability to writ individual behaviour plans for young people
- Good computer literacy skills including use of word and PowerPoint
- willing to become a PROACT-SCIPr
- Knowledge of mental capacity act (2005)
- Positive attitude, mindset and solution focused.
Benefits
- Annual Leave 27 day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
- Generous pension schemeand death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
- Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhancedmaternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
- Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
- Proud to be a real living wage employer
- Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
- Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
- Promotion of Wellbeingacross the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home
Curious about us? Watch our quick career video as a Speech & Language Therapist/Occupational Therapist (delete as appropriate)
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Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you