Job requirements
Essential
10 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Sk
To deliver Applied Behaviour Analysis and Positive Behavioural Support across cultural and other differences.
- Sk
To communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information.
- Sk
To select and administer specialist assessment procedures, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources.
- Abilities
Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.
- Abilities
Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations such as working with victims of abuse or trauma, or with people who engage in severe self-harming or aggressive behaviour
- Abilities
Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self as well as manage physical aggression directed at self, including use of de-escalation techniques and personal safety procedures as prescribed by Trust policies.
- Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree followed by PG Diploma in Applied Behaviour Analysis, or Analysis
- Experience/Knowledge
Experience and knowledge of applied behavioural assessment and treatment of clients with a range of needs of a complex nature.
- Experience/Knowledge
Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience.
- Experience/Knowledge
Experience and knowledge of the practice of Positive Behavioural Support
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Sk
Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
- Experience/Knowledge
Lived experience of mental health or learning disabilities challenges.
Job overview
We are exciting to advertise for a Behaviour Support Practitioner to work in the Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Service (MHLD) in Lambeth. 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 well established 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. You will deliver support within the person’s home and community as required.
Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Practitioner Behaviour Support Practitioner 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
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Behaviour Support Practitioner with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Beckenham, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Mental health professionals role. The advertised salary is £47,951 - £56,863 per annum incl. of HCAs (Inner). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 10 Nov 2026.
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