Behaviour Support Practitioner

Job overview

We are looking for a Behaviour Support Practitioner, to work within a newly developed IST pathway in the Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Service (MHLD). You will be expected to work directly and indirectly with people with learning disabilities, families, and carers providing person-centred specialist behavioural assessments and interventions, using a Positive Behavioural Support approach. You will be part of a  small intensive support pathway which is part of a friendly community-based MDT and wider staff group of Psychologists and Behavioural Support Practitioners across the MHLD service. You will provide clinical interventions that are focused on the person and the whole network supporting that person, to develop and deliver support within the person’s home and community.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Practitioner Behaviour Support Practitioner in our IST pathway, within  Lambeth Mental Health & Learning Disability Service (MHLD), you will be a member of a multi-disciplinary community team working together primarily to:

• To provide applied behavioural assessment and intervention for clients who present behaviour that challenges services and poses risks to their well-being, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To employ the principles of Positive Behavioural Support in all aspects of clinical work.
• To participate in strengthening local services and developing capable environments though training, consultation and modelling.

The teams do this through the early management of identified complex situations.  This will include detailed risk assessment and management underpinned by a positive behaviour support model.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Purpose:

• To provide applied behavioural assessment and intervention for clients who present behaviour that challenges services and poses risks to their well-being, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To employ the principles of Positive Behavioural Support in all aspects of clinical work alongside MDT colleagues.
• To participate in strengthening local services and developing capable environments though training, consultation and modelling.

• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
• To participate in service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within professional and Trust guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
• To plan and facilitate staff training and teaching, and presentations as appropriate