Specialist Support Worker - Positive Behaviour Support Worker

Job Category : Social & Health Care Non-Qualified

Location : Queens Road 1, Southwark Council

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £21.31

The All Age Disability (0-25) / Learning Disability (25+) service provides a comprehensive and integrated social care pathway for Children and Young People with Disabilities and for adults with Learning Disabilities. We are looking for a Full Time Support Worker to join the All Age Disabilities, Positive Behaviour Support Team for a short term agency position.

The Positive Behaviour Support Team sits within the All Age Disabilities Team alongside the Short Breaks and Children in Need social care teams. The All Age Disabilities, Positive Behaviour Support Team is a small team of four full time PBS Support Workers with PBS Team Lead and Senior Practitioner providing project oversight. We work with families open to both the All Age Disabilities Service and the 25+ Learning Disabilities Service. We also work within Southwark’s Family Hubs providing early intervention and preventative support through training and advice.

We provide positive behaviour support interventions to children, young people and adults through comprehensive assessment and formulation of behaviours that challenge to create behaviour support plans. We deliver outreach support within the family home or support settings with the aim of increasing independence and quality of life for young people and supporting families or carers to develop skills and understanding in supporting people with needs related to learning disabilities, autism and challenging behaviour.

Knowledge, including educational qualifications:

1. Knowledge of clinical frameworks Positive Behavioural Support and or Applied Behaviour Analysis

2. Knowledge of disabilities and the impact they can have on individuals’ lives

3. Knowledge and awareness of issues relating to communities from diverse backgrounds

4. PBS qualification (e.g. BTEC Level 4 Professional Certificate in Positive Behaviour Support) or equivalent professional or lived experience

Experience:

5. Experience of formulating and implementing support plans and behaviour interventions and strategies

6. Experience of using person centred approaches to enable service users to achieve their goals, outcomes and maximise their independence

7. Experience of working with children and young people / adults with learning disability and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges.

8. Experience of working with a wide variety of professionals and agencies to enable children and/or adults to achieve outcomes and maximise their independence

9. An awareness of the risks associated with disability and the ability to use this knowledge to safeguard disabled children. Recognise and report any concerns about the welfare of a child promptly in line with Southwark’s guidance on safeguarding children.

Aptitudes, Skills & Competencies:

10. Good interpersonal skills and the ability to encourage positive working relationships with both staff and be able to use specialist communication tools with children, young people and adults who may be non verbal or have communication difficulties.

11. Literacy skills to enable the post holder to produce high quality non-standard correspondences.

12. Numeric skills to enable the post holder to collate and analyse complex information, and produce good quality data that is easily understood by others

13. Ability to use monitoring and evaluation tools

14. Ability to organise and prioritise your work, responding to changing priorities and deadlines15. Computer literacy skills at a level to maintain case records within information management systems