# Specialist Practitioner (Behaviour Support) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-practitioner-behaviour-support/22361a66-c808-4a82-84f6-0ddc8e8c4ad6 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-practitioner-behaviour-support/22361a66-c808-4a82-84f6-0ddc8e8c4ad6.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Croydon Health Services NHS Trust - **Location:** Croydon University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Practitioner - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 p.a inc of HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-09T08:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-26T10:20:28.184Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Croydon/Croydon_Health_Services_NHS_Trust/Learning_Disabilities/Learning_Disabilities-v8362594 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8362594?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.croydonhealthservices.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Do you want to make a difference in the lives of adults with intellectual disabilities whose behaviours challenge in Croydon and promote the best outcomes possible? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Specialist Practitioner (behaviour support) to join the Croydon Community Learning Disabilities Team. We are looking for a passionate practitioner to join and enhance our established multidisciplinary behaviour support service. The successful applicant will join a highly valued multidisciplinary community team for adults with intellectual disabilities, based in the heart of Croydon. The service is located in Bernard Weatherill House, Croydon Council headquarter, and has strong working relationships with key partner agencies including Croydon Adult Social Care, Croydon Mental health in Learning Disabilities (South London & the Maudsley), and the Forensic LD & ASD Service (SLaM). The CLDT comprises of Psychologists, Specialist Practitioner, Learning Disability Nurses, Speech & Language Therapists, a Dietitian and Physiotherapists. We provide a psychological service to adults with intellectual disabilities with mental health needs, and/or behaviours that challenge. ### Main duties of the job - To contribute to the provision of the Behaviour Support Pathway as part of Croydon Community Learning Disability Team supporting adults with intellectual disabilities whose behaviours challenge - To provide specialist behavioural assessments and interventions including support with implementation and monitoring of outcomes across a range of settings. The post holder will work autonomously alongside clients, families, support workers and professionals to enable others to better understand and respond to behaviours that are challenging. - The post holder will be required to supervise junior staff as agreed with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist. They will use research skills to carry out audits, service evaluations and research activities relevant to the service. - The post holder will be required to contribute to the effective running of the Croydon Community Learning Disability Team, delivering, or advising on the delivery of, high quality care and ensuring consistently high standards of practice. They will be required to contribute to effective multidisciplinary team working ensuring that care is delivered in a holistic way that involves service users and carers. - 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 under the direct guidance, close clinical and professional supervision of a practitioner psychologist. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ** Please see the Job Description and the Person Specification for more details on the jobs responsibilities ** ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - - Theoretical knowledge of Applied Behaviour Analysis and principles and practice of Positive Behaviour Support. - - Knowledge of legislation and relevant policies in relation to the client group ### experience **Essential** - Significant qualified experience working with clients with intellectual disabilities and behaviours that challenge - Experience of a range of specialist behavioural assessment and interventions with clients with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges services, across the full range of care settings - Experience of MDT working - experience of working with students/AP as part of PBS practice **Desirable** - Previous experience of working in a community learning disabilities team - experience of training, teaching and supervising ### education, skills and other factors **Essential** - - Bachelor’s Degree AND - Post Graduate Diploma in - Applied Behaviour Analysis, OR - Post Graduate Diploma in Analysis and Intervention in Intellectual Disabilities, OR - equivalent Post Graduate Diploma (Applied behavioural analysis, ASD, PBS) - - Certification with Behaviour Analyst Certification Board (BACB) or working towards - - Evidence of continuation of professional development - - Skills in the use of complex methods of Applied Behaviour Analysis and Positive Behaviour Support across cultural and other differences. - - Well-developed oral and written communication skills - - Skills in providing consultation and training in PBS - - Ability to cope emotionally with challenging behaviours displayed by individuals on a day to day basis, and to support carers in times of distress. - - Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. - Organisational skills - Commitment to reflective practice and trust values **Desirable** - Registration with UK-SBA ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 477.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10689394) - [chs accomodation (pdf, 676.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1725) - [croydon trust values (pdf, 324.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2317) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2414) - [chs dbs policy statement (pdf, 53.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=972) - [map of croydon university hospital (pdf, 95.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=974) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.