PBS Practitioner

at  Gloucestershire County Council

PBS PRACTITIONER

Date: 4 Feb 2025
Job Location:Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: PBS Practitioner
• Job Location: Shire Hall
• Salary: £32,115 - £35,235 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 18/02/2025
• Job Requisition Number: 10708
• This post is not open to job share

ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT WORKING WITH PEOPLE TO PROMOTE INDEPENDENCE AND ARE DEDICATED TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE?

We are recruiting for a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Practitioner to take up a full time role within our Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) team. Although located at Shire Hall in Gloucester, the role will entail work outside of normal working hours and at locations across the county, including in our Locality, Hospital and Learning Disabilities teams. If you are looking for your next career move within Adult Social Care, then we would love to hear from you!

ABOUT YOU:

As a PBS Practitioner, you will have the chance to make a real positive impact on people’s lives, utilising your excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with a range of stakeholders. Using your significant knowledge of the PBS framework and experience of working with vulnerable adults, you will utilise your professional judgement to undertake Functional Assessments and to develop BSP’s. You will contribute to the development of the service and be able to work as part of a team and on your own initiative. You will embrace new ways of thinking and working as well as take up opportunities for professional and self-development. For further information on the role please see the attached Job Description.

As a PBS Practitioner, we understand the work you do on a daily basis and provide the support you need to make a difference to the people of Gloucestershire. To join us, you must:

• Have a professional Diploma in Positive Behavioural Support (QCF4) or equivalent (Applied Behavioural Analysis), or currently working towards significant experience within the field of PBS
• Registered as a member of the UKSBA or willingness to register
• Have working knowledge of the legislative and Positive Behaviour Support frameworks, theory and practice; including the PBS competencies outlined by the PBS academy
• Be highly organised with a solution focused, logical and innovative approach to challenges
• Be able to prioritise, using a risk based approach

Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. Read more about our values on our website.
If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help you succeed in your role.

ABOUT US:

Gloucestershire County Council Adult Social Care is on an exciting innovation journey working towards the Three Conversation approach, a model that re-emphasises focus on people, their strengths and the networks and community around them.

Our people do all they can to make the difference to the Gloucestershire community. Here are some of the benefits we offer in return for your hard work.

• Regular formal and informal support
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Accredited post-qualified training opportunities, enabling you to develop your skills
• Access to mandatory training and additional topical bi-annual workshops.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C’s apply)
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Annual leave up to 30.5 days after 5 years employment
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
• Cycle to work Scheme

Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is a person-centred approach for providing long-term support to people with learning disabilities and autism, including those with mental health conditions, who display, or may be at risk of developing, behaviours of concern. The PBS Practitioner works in partnership with individuals to understand their life circumstances including physical and emotional needs, with the aim of developing physical and social environments that are supportive and capable of meeting people’s needs. The PBS Practitioner achieves this by working in partnership with other health and social care teams across Gloucestershire
To find out more about our PBS team, please, watch the video “Adult Social Care Positive Bahaviour Support Team”
To find out more about Team Locations, please visit our “Meet the Teams” webpage.