Clinical Behaviour Specialist/ Senior Behaviour Therapist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £39,959 - £56,515 Per annum + 5% High Cost Allowance |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Billericay, CM12 9NW |
| Cwmni: | Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7869808/364-A-9859 |
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A Vacancy at Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
EPUT's Learning Disabilities Psychological Service in South Essex has an opportunity for a highly motivated behaviour specialist passionate about transformation to join the team and develop the service. Implementing care provision for adults with learning disabilities considering assessment, intervention/therapeutic support.
Successful candidates will receive +5% HCAS allowance.
We are seeking aBand 7 Clinical Behaviour Specialistto join our team, providing expert input into complex clinical cases and contributing to the development of new pathways.
We also welcome applications from strong candidates who may not yet meet all aspects of the person specification. In such cases, aBand 6role may be offered.
We seek professionals motivated to change lives by focusing on patient care that helps individuals flourish, focusing on their well-being and self-determination and aiming for their optimal development. This will applied via a strength-based approach to their learning disability practice.
Roles are available as part of a well-established, highly professional multidisciplinary team of psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists and nurses.
We offer multiple options for further professional development through wider collaborative working with the Essex Learning Disability Partnership, including the development of neuro-developmental disorders, dementia and challenging behaviour pathways, and work both in the community and inpatient settings.
1. Within the Learning Disability service to lead in delivering high-quality specialist behavioural assessment and treatment of people with a learning disability who have additional severe behaviour that challenges, and indirect working through consultation, teaching and training with staff, families and carers across South Essex.
2. Providing leadership input into the development of new pathways of care for behaviours that challenge.
3. Being responsible for holding and managing a behaviour therapy clinical caseload of clients referred to the Learning Disability Team and utilising planning and organisational skills, to exercise autonomous assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the parameters of the service operational policy and professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload.
4. To plan and supervise the work of the Behaviour Associate Practitioners/Assistant Psychologists and Behaviour Support Workers delegating and monitoring work with appropriate support and management.
5. To work in partnership with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams to provide a holistic service
Please note that job description and person specification documents for the role as a Band 7 is pending job evaluation and the banding/JD/PS may be subject to change.
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
Benefits
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The post holder will be expected to support their team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust’s values.The post holder will achieve this by:
1. Providing a qualified, high-quality specialist LD Behaviour Therapy service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across the LD MDT, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.
2. Being responsible for holding and managing a behaviour therapy clinical caseload of clients referred to the Learning Disability Team and utilising planning and organisational skills, to exercise autonomous assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the parameters of the service operational policy and professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload.
3. Take full clinical responsibility for assessment and intervention for clinical work based on positive behaviour support and applied behaviour analysis. When required to carry out assessment and intervention using other psychological approaches, the responsibility will remain with the qualified psychological practitioner who is providing the clinical supervision.
4. To work alongside MDT professionals to provide specialist behaviour therapy input for clients referred with behaviour that challenges to the Learning Disability Team.
5. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on behavioural aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
6. Under supervision, to employ analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
7. To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a senior clinician/psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues specialising in behaviour that challenges in people with Learning Disabilities.
Leadership
1. To clinically supervise and where appropriate manage behaviour therapy practitioners, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists working in LD Behaviour Therapy and Psychological Services.
2. To plan, organise and provide teaching, training, consultation and as appropriate, clinical supervision to other professionals and disciplines within the LD MDT in the behavioural aspects of their work.
3. As appropriate, to plan and organise education, training and support for carers and staff groups of residential settings and family members in connection with individuals with learning disabilities identified needs in relation to behaviour that challenges.
4. To provide advice, consultation and training on the behavioural aspects of Learning Disability, to a range of agencies working with the LD client group.
5. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures, to provide consultation and advice about behavioural issues to other members of the CLDT and other statutory and non-statutory organisations and professionals working with service users.
6. Working within the agreed policies and procedures for LD services pathway and Challenging Behaviour pathway to facilitate the access of people with a learning disability to appropriate services through:
7. Teaching and training for practitioners working and supporting clients presenting with behavioural challenges.
8. Working in close collaboration with MDT staff & practitioners to support clients who are either at risk of or are already admitted to inpatient settings.
9. Working alongside staff and professionals in helping clients presenting with behavioural challenges coming out of inpatient settings settle back into the community.
10. Providing consultation and advice to staff & Practitioners working with individuals with LD who present with behavioural challenges to access mainstream services & community facilities where appropriate.
11. As appropriate provide consultation and advice to internal and external agencies on how and when to refer to specialist LD Psychological Services.
12. To contribute as directed by the professional lead, to audit policy and service developments within the area served by the LD Psychology and Behaviour Therapy Services and the LD MDT.
13. To identify and implement service improvements in areas of LD service relating to behavioural challenges where there is need for development and to contribute to service developments in policy, procedure and practice as agreed by the professional lead.
14. Where approach to utilise research skills and/or support others to undertake service evaluation and clinically relevant research as agreed under the supervision of the professional lead and to disseminate the results across the LD service and EPUT.
15. To participate in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
16. To actively promote integrated health professional working internally and externally.
17. To facilitate the development of a positive and ‘supportive’ team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.
18. To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines.
19. To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
20. To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews.
Clinical Skills
1. To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
2. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and to exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of behaviour therapy practice within the service/team.
3. The post holder will have a professional registration, e.g. HCPC, nursing or other registration body.
4. Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes with a specific focus on working effectively with clients presenting with LD and behaviours of concern i.e. Positive Behaviour Support courses.
5. To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/individuals presenting with learning disabilities and behavioural challenges.
6. To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of learning disabled clients presenting with behavioural challenges who may also present with a variety of other physical/psychological health conditions. This includes clients with severe and profound levels of learning disabilities and those with different/varying genetic conditions. To be able to do this using own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
7. To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
8. To provide individuals and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
9. To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence based practice, literature and peer review.
Training
1. To act as mentor to behaviour therapy practitioners, assistants, trainees (where appropriate) & students, providing effective education, facilitating their development and promoting high standards of practice & care.
2. Ensure behaviour therapy practitioners, assistants, trainees and students are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
3. To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of
lifelong learning in self and others.
4. To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and
workshops.
5. To keep a portfolio of your achievements, accomplishment and skills necessary for your role and revalidation of registration (as appropriate)
6. To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that
includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.
7. To support new staff and their integration within the team.
8. To support training as part of the role including changes to professional
development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.
9. Contribute to the department’s performance management outcomes.
This advert closes on Friday 3 Apr 2026
EPUT's Learning Disabilities Psychological Service in South Essex has an opportunity for a highly motivated behaviour specialist passionate about transformation to join the team and develop the service. Implementing care provision for adults with learning disabilities considering assessment, intervention/therapeutic support.
Successful candidates will receive +5% HCAS allowance.
We are seeking aBand 7 Clinical Behaviour Specialistto join our team, providing expert input into complex clinical cases and contributing to the development of new pathways.
We also welcome applications from strong candidates who may not yet meet all aspects of the person specification. In such cases, aBand 6role may be offered.
We seek professionals motivated to change lives by focusing on patient care that helps individuals flourish, focusing on their well-being and self-determination and aiming for their optimal development. This will applied via a strength-based approach to their learning disability practice.
Roles are available as part of a well-established, highly professional multidisciplinary team of psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists and nurses.
We offer multiple options for further professional development through wider collaborative working with the Essex Learning Disability Partnership, including the development of neuro-developmental disorders, dementia and challenging behaviour pathways, and work both in the community and inpatient settings.
1. Within the Learning Disability service to lead in delivering high-quality specialist behavioural assessment and treatment of people with a learning disability who have additional severe behaviour that challenges, and indirect working through consultation, teaching and training with staff, families and carers across South Essex.
2. Providing leadership input into the development of new pathways of care for behaviours that challenge.
3. Being responsible for holding and managing a behaviour therapy clinical caseload of clients referred to the Learning Disability Team and utilising planning and organisational skills, to exercise autonomous assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the parameters of the service operational policy and professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload.
4. To plan and supervise the work of the Behaviour Associate Practitioners/Assistant Psychologists and Behaviour Support Workers delegating and monitoring work with appropriate support and management.
5. To work in partnership with multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams to provide a holistic service
Please note that job description and person specification documents for the role as a Band 7 is pending job evaluation and the banding/JD/PS may be subject to change.
Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.
• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
Benefits
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.
Work that wraps around your needs
• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The post holder will be expected to support their team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust’s values.The post holder will achieve this by:
1. Providing a qualified, high-quality specialist LD Behaviour Therapy service to individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across the LD MDT, in line with best, evidence-based practice and trust care pathways.
2. Being responsible for holding and managing a behaviour therapy clinical caseload of clients referred to the Learning Disability Team and utilising planning and organisational skills, to exercise autonomous assessment, treatment and discharge of clients, within the parameters of the service operational policy and professional responsibility for the planning and prioritising of own workload.
3. Take full clinical responsibility for assessment and intervention for clinical work based on positive behaviour support and applied behaviour analysis. When required to carry out assessment and intervention using other psychological approaches, the responsibility will remain with the qualified psychological practitioner who is providing the clinical supervision.
4. To work alongside MDT professionals to provide specialist behaviour therapy input for clients referred with behaviour that challenges to the Learning Disability Team.
5. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on behavioural aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
6. Under supervision, to employ analytical and judgment skills and be responsible for taking clinical management decisions in complex clinical issues.
7. To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a senior clinician/psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues specialising in behaviour that challenges in people with Learning Disabilities.
Leadership
1. To clinically supervise and where appropriate manage behaviour therapy practitioners, assistant psychologists and trainee psychologists working in LD Behaviour Therapy and Psychological Services.
2. To plan, organise and provide teaching, training, consultation and as appropriate, clinical supervision to other professionals and disciplines within the LD MDT in the behavioural aspects of their work.
3. As appropriate, to plan and organise education, training and support for carers and staff groups of residential settings and family members in connection with individuals with learning disabilities identified needs in relation to behaviour that challenges.
4. To provide advice, consultation and training on the behavioural aspects of Learning Disability, to a range of agencies working with the LD client group.
5. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures, to provide consultation and advice about behavioural issues to other members of the CLDT and other statutory and non-statutory organisations and professionals working with service users.
6. Working within the agreed policies and procedures for LD services pathway and Challenging Behaviour pathway to facilitate the access of people with a learning disability to appropriate services through:
7. Teaching and training for practitioners working and supporting clients presenting with behavioural challenges.
8. Working in close collaboration with MDT staff & practitioners to support clients who are either at risk of or are already admitted to inpatient settings.
9. Working alongside staff and professionals in helping clients presenting with behavioural challenges coming out of inpatient settings settle back into the community.
10. Providing consultation and advice to staff & Practitioners working with individuals with LD who present with behavioural challenges to access mainstream services & community facilities where appropriate.
11. As appropriate provide consultation and advice to internal and external agencies on how and when to refer to specialist LD Psychological Services.
12. To contribute as directed by the professional lead, to audit policy and service developments within the area served by the LD Psychology and Behaviour Therapy Services and the LD MDT.
13. To identify and implement service improvements in areas of LD service relating to behavioural challenges where there is need for development and to contribute to service developments in policy, procedure and practice as agreed by the professional lead.
14. Where approach to utilise research skills and/or support others to undertake service evaluation and clinically relevant research as agreed under the supervision of the professional lead and to disseminate the results across the LD service and EPUT.
15. To participate in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
16. To actively promote integrated health professional working internally and externally.
17. To facilitate the development of a positive and ‘supportive’ team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.
18. To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines.
19. To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
20. To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews.
Clinical Skills
1. To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
2. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and to exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of behaviour therapy practice within the service/team.
3. The post holder will have a professional registration, e.g. HCPC, nursing or other registration body.
4. Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes with a specific focus on working effectively with clients presenting with LD and behaviours of concern i.e. Positive Behaviour Support courses.
5. To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/individuals presenting with learning disabilities and behavioural challenges.
6. To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of learning disabled clients presenting with behavioural challenges who may also present with a variety of other physical/psychological health conditions. This includes clients with severe and profound levels of learning disabilities and those with different/varying genetic conditions. To be able to do this using own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
7. To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
8. To provide individuals and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
9. To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence based practice, literature and peer review.
Training
1. To act as mentor to behaviour therapy practitioners, assistants, trainees (where appropriate) & students, providing effective education, facilitating their development and promoting high standards of practice & care.
2. Ensure behaviour therapy practitioners, assistants, trainees and students are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
3. To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of
lifelong learning in self and others.
4. To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and
workshops.
5. To keep a portfolio of your achievements, accomplishment and skills necessary for your role and revalidation of registration (as appropriate)
6. To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that
includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.
7. To support new staff and their integration within the team.
8. To support training as part of the role including changes to professional
development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.
9. Contribute to the department’s performance management outcomes.
This advert closes on Friday 3 Apr 2026